Great boat trips: readers’ travel tips

Scanning the Indian Ocean for blue whales, an Amazon ferry adventure, the engineering marvels of the Manchester ship canal … readers share their favourite trips by boatThe only way to get to the city of Iquitos in Peru is by air or boat. I took the three-day ferry from Yurimaguas along the Amazon. Sharing the ferry with cargo and cattle, the journey both fulfilled my dream of seeing the Amazon and was a unique opportunity to get to know my fellow passengers over some Cusqueña beer.