South America : Peru : San Martín : Tarapoto
Tarapoto
Tarapoto is in the San Martín region in northern Peru.
Get in
- Tarapoto has an airport, which can be flown to directly from Lima.
- There are also bus services from Lima, which roughly take 26 hours via Trujillo & Chiclayo to Tarapoto.
Get around
A mototaxi looks like a rickshaw with a motorcycle welded onto the front of it and is the most common form of transportation in Tarapoto. Automobile taxis are also available in lesser numbers. Whether using a taxi or mototaxi, tourists should always negotiate the price of the trip before getting into the vehicle, or they might find themselves paying far more than necessary for the ride. Mototaxi drivers are sometimes reckless, so tourists should not hesitate to tell the driver to slow down if necessary.
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Get out
- Moyobamba - the capital of the region
This page was last edited at 10:16, on 12 March 2009 by Anonymous user(s) of Wikitravel. Based on work by Peter Fitzgerald, David, Evan Prodromou, Jeffrey Scott Maxwell and Aidan Boreham and Wikitravel user(s) TrujilloPeru, WindHorse and Huttite.