Fowl, fish and wild meat are indispensable ingredients in preparing “juanes” (rice dough stuffed with chicken and wrapped in banana leaves for cooking), grilled “picuro” (delicious wild meat), “apishado” or pork cooked in a peanut and corn sauce, and “patarashca” fish wrapped in banana leaves and cooked over a fire.

Soups include “inchicapi” chicken soup with peanuts, coriander and manioc and "carachama” fish soup cooked also with banana plantain and coriander.

Aguajina is a refreshing drink made from the “aguaje” a jungle fruit, while “masato” is a fermented manioc and sugar beer. “Chuchuhuasi” is a fermented beer made from the chuchuhuasi root, “uvachado” is prepared with grapes and “chapo” is a cooked banana, water and milk beverage.

How to get there:
By air: Daily flight from Lima to Iquitos, Pucallpa, Tarapoto and Puerto Maldonado.
By road: To Tarapoto along the Longitudinal Jungle Highway.
To Puerto Maldonado via Cusco.