Treehouse Lodge

This is the one that makes the brochures: twelve treehouses up on stilts, anywhere from thirty-five to seventy-five feet above the forest floor on the Yarapa River, out past Iquitos toward the Pacaya-Samiria Reserve. Getting here is a commitment — a car from Iquitos, then a boat run of around two and a half hours — but Iquitos has no roads anyway, so you were always going by water. National Geographic put it on a list of the world's unusual hotels, and you can see why from your own canopy. The package handles everything: meals, the transfer, guided excursions for piranha fishing, canopy walks and pink river dolphins. Each treehouse has its own shower and toilet, which up here counts as luxury. Sold as a 3-day all-inclusive, not by the night — verdict: the proper Amazon treehouse, and worth the haul.