Iquitos

Local guide Eudes helps Oro and Sonny catch red-bellied piranhas using simple wooden poles baited with raw fish pieces along the Amazon riverbank. Back on shore, Adolid guts the sharp-toothed fish, seasons them with cilantro, cucumber, and onions, and grills them wrapped in banana leaves in the Patarashca style.

Aerial perspectives reveal dense urban neighborhoods bordering the broad Amazon River with boats tied up along the banks. The video notes that Iquitos is the largest city in the world unreachable by connected road networks.

In the river village of San Francisco near Iquitos, local cook Adolid mashes grilled plantains in a wooden mortar to form Tacacho balls, serving them alongside fried wild boar skin and smoked chorizo sausages. The hosts sit at an outdoor wooden table along the riverbank to enjoy the traditional Amazonian feast.

Guide Eudes extracts fat live Suri grubs (palm beetle larvae) from decayed palm wood and demonstrates how to eat them raw by biting off the body. Sonny bravely bites into a squirming grub, describing its clean, nutty, coconut-like flavor while Oro reacts with dramatic surprise.

While navigating a calm tributary of the Amazon River near Iquitos, pink river dolphins (boto) surface next to the wooden motorboat. The hosts watch in awe as the freshwater mammals breach above green water hyacinth plants against the dense jungle shoreline.