Amazing Quest Peru: Crossing the Amazon by Boat | Investigate LATAM

World’s Toughest Boat Trips | The Amazon, Peru | Investigate LATAM This series explores some of the most fascinating and hard-core boat journeys on the planet. We undertake epic journeys by boats in some of the toughest environments on earth. During our journeys we look at how the technology of boat travel has been adapted to survive, trade with and connect isolated communities. Holly Morris embarks on a 250-mile, 3-day journey through the remote Peruvian Amazon by cargo boat, sharing space with over 200 locals and heading to Iquitos, the largest city in the Peruvian Amazon. Marooned in the jungle with no road access, Iquitos flourished a century ago during the Amazon rubber boom. Holly explores this history and meets an indigenous tribe whose ancestors were rubber tappers. She concludes h