(Offline for a couple days for a trek to a ruined city that sounds like the name of a Pokemon)

Otorongo, a local word meaning jaguar, is located 2,000 miles from where the Marañón and Ucayali rivers meet, forming the great Amazon river.

With its roots beginning in 2005, Otorongo was started by Anthony Giardenelli, an upstate New Yorker, and his wife, Ivonne, a native of Iquitos. It is a twelve room lodge surrounded by spacious open gardens where various plants are grown and where the lodge's macaws, chickens, and ducks roam about. At one end of the rooms is a large dining area. At the opposite end is a hammock room where ~6 hammocks are set up in a semicircle ready to encapsulate their residents.