To visit the Peruvian side of the Amazon, we arrived in the jungle city of Iquitos and spent some time in town before going into the wild.
La Casa Fitzcarraldo
Allow me to put you into context… A few decades back, movie director Werner Herzog and producer Walter Saxer came to the Amazon to shoot the epic film Fitzcarraldo, starring Klaus Kinski and Claudia Cardinale. This movie took several years to be completed and, as Mick Jagger was part of the initial cast of the film, he stayed in “the Blue Room”, which we had the pleasure to spend our nights at.
As a person who studied cinema and used to work in TV/film production, I was excited to be at what today is Walter Saxer’s B&B. I learnt about director Wener Herzog in film class and now here we were, staying at his buddy’s hotel. I felt like I was digging into film history in the most unlike of places: the Amazon! The house has photos and memorabilia of the movie shot in the region and planned in that house itself, but the hotel is way more than that now-a-days.
There are only 4 rooms in La Casa Fitzcarraldo
There is also a restaurant and bar by the pool, serving a variety of well-cooked and presented regional, national and international dishes. I’d recommend the charcoal grilled meats or fish and the camu-camu juice (a local Amazonian fruit, extremely flavorful and cooling).
Although not in the very centre of Iquitos, La Casa Fitzcarraldo
La Casa Fitzcarraldo
More info:
La Casa Fitzcarraldo
info@lacasafitzcarraldo.com
+51-65-601138 / 601139
Avenida La Marina 2153
Iquitos, Peru