Introduction
The Historic Boat Museum in Iquitos is owned and run by Fundamazionia/ Amazoneco and has a permanent exhibit on the steamship ‘Ayapua’. The themes include the discovery of the Amazon, the early missionary period, explores of the Amazon, old Iquitos, the rubber boom era, and steamboat navigation. You can visit the engine room and see an original old steam engine, and upstairs there is an original wheelhouse.
A visit to the Ayapua boat museum, one of Iquitos’ top attractions, allows travelers to relive the Victorian elegance of Amazon River navigation, exploring the decks of a remarkable boat that helped to generate the wealth, history and personality of this incredible region.
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The Historic Boat Museum has a fleet of three river boats spanning the early days of steam navigation in the Peruvian Amazon, including the oldest boat still navigating the Amazon River ‘Clavero’ and two rubber era cargo and passenger ships ‘Ayapua’ and ‘Rio Amazonas’. The ‘Clavero’ and ‘Rio Amazonas’ are part of the working fleet and are the base of the Rio Amazonas Research Station located at the Yarapa River Research Reserve..
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The elegance of Victorian opera and superfluous wealth of the rubber boom period are relished throughout the Ayapua. The original steam whistle would echo through the forest in harmony with the howls of monkeys and screeches of macaws. Dolphins would swim along the bows and swallows flutter through the masts as the Ayapua would gracefully steam up the mightiest river on Earth.
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The elegance of Victorian opera and superfluous wealth of the rubber boom period are relished throughout the Ayapua. The original steam whistle would echo through the forest in harmony with the howls of monkeys and screeches of macaws. Dolphins would swim along the bows and swallows flutter through the masts as the Ayapua would gracefully steam up the mightiest river on Earth.
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