A wonderful place

If you love working with animals, then this us the place or you. You get the sense that the first priority of those running it is for the animals.

About an hour south of Iquitos by collectivo (minibus) I would say it is well worth the journey, even if this is the only thing you can do in Iqutios. You learn so much more - about the animals, about the amazon and the culture - than you would on a tour.

Day to day you are expected to prepare meals for the animals, change water, clean eating areas, clean the manatee pool, prepare milk for the babys. The work is tough enough, nothing unbearable, but the heat and the mosquitos mean it's not a project for the faint hearted.