Trip to Shanay-timpishka, Amazonia (Oct. 2023)

Journey along the Ucayali — From Pucallpa to the Shanay-timpishka

The Boiling River regularly reaches 86°C — with drastic consequences for the surrounding rainforest. When you drive towards Peru's Boiling River, along a bumpy, four-hour track through the rainforest, it's only after you transcend a crest in the landscape that you see it ahead of you. Huge billows of steam rise from a clutch of trees in the wide, saucer-like depression below. "It was so magical," says Alyssa Kullberg, remembering the first time she saw it with her own eyes. The Boiling River, also known as the Shanay-timpishka, is part of a tributary in east-central Peru that connects to the mighty Amazon River.

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Shanay-timpishka

Ceiba tree

On the Ucayali

Ucayali from Above

Boiling River

Sreya in Pucallpa Market