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Amazonka TV: An In-Depth Review for Ayahuasca Retreats near Iquitos, Peru

Amazonka TV is a small ayahuasca retreat operator that exists online almost entirely as a Retreat Guru listing. Its center page gives its address as Mocoa, in Colombia’s Putumayo region, but every program it publishes, and its AyaAdvisors entry, place the retreats near Iquitos, Peru, two hours by boat from the city, led by a Kokama shaman called Don Leo and a host and guide called Nina. It sells ceremonies and retreats from one day to 30 days, at prices from $100 to $3,450, with kambo, San Pedro, rapé and bufo (5-MeO-DMT) alongside ayahuasca. It has no website, no named legal entity, no YouTube or “TV” channel we could identify, and no reviews on any platform. We found no deaths, injuries, misconduct or legal action. The concerns are a basic one, where it actually operates, and the absence of any published screening, contraindications, medical staff or emergency plan, together with an amenity list that claims a pool and spa its own description does not support, a group size of “up to 59” next to a promise of small groups, and at least one AI-generated image in its gallery. The listing shows no dated activity since early 2025. Our earlier profile needs correcting: the 11-day, $1,950 program it described does not exist on any page we found, and the operator does publish contact details.

🎯 At a Glance

• Locations: The Retreat Guru center page says “Mocoa, Putumayo, Colombia,” with no street or coordinates, and directions via a SATENA flight from Bogotá to Villagarzón. Every program page, including the 10-day retreat, says Iquitos, Peru, reached by flying from Lima and taking a two-hour boat ride. The country on these pages is written in Russian (“Перу”). No program in Colombia is listed.
• Approach: Ayahuasca ceremonies in the Kokama tradition led by Don Leo, with flower and vapor baths, a master plant dieta on longer stays, kambo, rapé, San Pedro and, in the event highlights, bufo. Guests can plant their own vine and help brew. Nina describes herself as a “psychedelic guide.”
• Suitable For: Very experienced travelers on a budget who are willing to confirm the location, the healer and the safety arrangements themselves before going. Not suited to first-timers, anyone with a medical or psychiatric condition, or anyone who wants a track record.
• Costs: $100 for a single ceremony, $80 for kambo, $550 for a three-day “Ayahuasca Express,” $950 for seven days, $1,250 or $1,300 for ten days (two pages disagree) and $3,450 for 30 days, on its booking pages. The currency is not stated. Lodging, vegetarian meals and airport transfers are included on the seven-day program. No deposit or refund policy is published.
• Overall Assessment: An inexpensive, multi-medicine program with a named healer, offset by a contradictory location, no website or legal entity, no reviews, no published screening, contraindications, medical staff or emergency plan despite offering kambo, San Pedro and bufo, misleading amenities, borrowed and AI-generated images and no sign of recent activity. Directory evaluation: D.

💬 What Guests Are Saying

Here is how Amazonka TV rates across review platforms in October 2026:

The positive picture. No guest reviews exist on any platform we checked.

The negative feedback. None, for the same reason.

Who is writing the reviews. No one, yet. The listing’s template text promises “verified reviews” and “2027 availability,” but there are no reviews and no dated events. One gallery file on the center page is named “Leonardo_Kino_XL_Create_an_image_of_a_Kambo_frog_at_night,” a prompt for an AI image generator, so at least one image is not a real photo. A gallery photo of a hotel room carries the watermark of a different business, Samawé eco hotel, and a photo of a room beside a pool has a filename showing it was saved from Instagram with a download tool, so the gallery may not show the operator’s own site. Prices in the page addresses differ from the prices on the pages, which suggests repeated repricing: the three-day program’s address says 750 while the page says $550, and the 30-day program’s address says 2550 while the page says $3,450. If you have attended, we encourage you to share your experience through our submission form.

🚩 Incident Report

We searched review platforms, Peruvian, Colombian and English-language news, and legal sources, in English, Spanish, Russian and Polish, for reports involving Amazonka TV, Nina and Don Leo.

• Deaths and serious injuries: None found involving this operator. Regional context only: in 2014 a 19-year-old British tourist died after a yagé ceremony near Mocoa, and Colombian prosecutors named the taita as a suspect, as El Espectador reported; in June 2025 an American tourist died after ayahuasca at a lodge in Loreto, Peru, as Infobae reported. Neither involves Amazonka TV.
• Sexual misconduct: No allegations found.
• Theft and crime: No reports found.
• Legal action: None found.

Because neither Nina nor Don Leo gives a surname, our searches were necessarily limited, and the absence of reports is weak evidence. If you have experienced or witnessed an incident with Amazonka TV, please report it confidentially.

🔍 Critical Notes

Where is it? The center page says Mocoa, Colombia, and gives Colombian travel directions, while every program page says Iquitos, Peru, and gives Peruvian directions; the operator’s phone number is Peruvian (+51). No Colombian healer or program appears anywhere. This may reflect a move, a planned second site or a template error, but nothing on the listing explains it. Do not book until the operator tells you, in writing, exactly where you will be and how you will get there.

Is it operating? The center page lists no events and no guides, and the booking site’s program list reads “Sorry no programs were found,” although individual program pages still open with “Open Dates.” The gallery was uploaded between December 2024 and February 2025, and the AyaAdvisors listing was last updated in July 2025. We found no dated retreat, post or review since then.

Amenities that do not match. The listing ticks air conditioning, Wi-Fi, a spa, sauna, pool, hot tub, gym, yoga studio and restaurant. Its own description of the site is private or shared bungalows, a two-bedroom house, a ceremonial hall, a kitchen, a terrace and two toilets and two showers about a minute’s walk away. The event page says “Up to 59 in group” and also “Small groups.”

A similar shaman elsewhere. A Kokama shaman also called Don Leo, with the same “over 40 years” description and the same two-hour boat ride from Iquitos, leads ceremonies at Planta Maestra, a separate center near Iquitos, according to its Retreat Guru teacher page. We found nothing linking the two businesses. If you are drawn to Don Leo, ask Amazonka TV for his full name and confirm where he will be working.

The legal position. In Peru, the traditional knowledge and uses of ayahuasca were declared national cultural heritage in 2008, as Andina reported, while commercial “decontextualized” use is distinguished from it, and no licensing system for retreats exists. In Colombia, there is no specific national law on yagé; in practice police look for indigenous authority certificates, and seizures happen when the brew is moved without them, according to research published on Bia Labate’s blog. In January 2025 the US Embassy in Lima advised citizens not to consume traditional hallucinogens such as ayahuasca. See our country-by-country legal guide.

Corrections to our earlier profile. We found no 11-day program and no price of $1,950 to $2,500 on any Amazonka TV page or on Retreat Guru’s Mocoa listings; similar 11-day Mocoa programs belong to other operators. Our earlier profile said the operator published no contact details, team or schedule; it publishes a phone number and email, names Nina and Don Leo, and lists a daily schedule, ceremony counts and integration sessions. Our earlier profile also showed a different grade in its text than in its sidebar; this review uses the sidebar grade. Its notes on Mocoa’s deadly 2017 landslides, which killed more than 300 people, were accurate but describe a region where the operator may not run retreats.

🆘 Screening & Mental Health Risks

No medical questionnaire, contraindication list, medication policy, medical staff or emergency protocol is published on any Amazonka TV page. Nina describes herself as “a certified Master of Psychology,” without naming an institution or license; that is not a medical credential. This matters more than usual because the programs combine ayahuasca with kambo, San Pedro and, in the event highlights, bufo. Ayahuasca contains MAOIs, and combining MAOIs with 5-MeO-DMT is a recognized and potentially dangerous interaction. If the site is two hours by boat from Iquitos, hospital care is at least that far away. “Integration sessions” are listed without detail, and no post-retreat support is described. ICEERS notes that ayahuasca’s MAOI component makes combinations with SSRIs and other serotonergic medications contraindicated, and that ayahuasca is contraindicated for people prone to psychosis. Erowid warns of extreme, possibly fatal reactions with some prescription drugs. Ask for the contraindication list, the gap between medicines and the evacuation plan in writing. Never stop a psychiatric medication to qualify for a retreat without your prescriber’s guidance.

🧪 Brew Substance

The operator does not publish its recipe. Traditional ayahuasca combines the Banisteriopsis caapi vine with a DMT-containing leaf such as chacruna, as Erowid explains. The 10-day retreat lists six ayahuasca ceremonies, one San Pedro, one kambo and one rapé ceremony, six cleansing baths and two vapor baths; the seven-day lists four ayahuasca ceremonies, kambo and four flower baths; the three-day runs three ayahuasca ceremonies on consecutive nights with “no long preparation or strict shamanic diet.” The 30-day program, per AyaAdvisors, includes 12 ayahuasca and four kambo ceremonies. Ceremonies start at 8 p.m. and close around 2 to 4 a.m. Ask exactly what is in each cup and how doses are set.

📍 Location, Setting & Style

• Setting: By the program pages, lowland Amazon rainforest two hours by boat from Iquitos, hot and humid year-round. If Mocoa, Andean foothill rainforest.
• Rooms: Private bungalows, single or shared double depending on availability, and a two-bedroom house, with two shared toilets and two showers.
• Style: A small, informal operation with a multi-medicine menu and a “psychedelic guide,” serving vegetarian meals, three a day on rest days and two on ceremony days.

Practical guidance: For the Peru programs, fly from Lima to Iquitos (IQT); airport pickup and the boat transfer are included on the one- and seven-day programs. For the Colombia address, the center page describes a meeting at Villagarzón airport after a SATENA flight from Bogotá.

Should You Book?

Amazonka TV may suit a very experienced, healthy traveler looking for a low-cost, multi-medicine stay who is prepared to verify everything independently. For almost everyone else, the trade-offs are too large: an unclear location, no reviews or track record, no website or legal entity, no published safety measures despite offering kambo, San Pedro and bufo, misleading amenities and no sign of activity since early 2025. If you go, get the exact location, the healers’ full names, the contraindication list, the emergency and evacuation plan and the refund terms in writing, and read our guide to verifying retreat facilitators.

The Team & Story

The center page introduces Nina as host and guide, a self-described “certified Master of Psychology” who says she has worked with shamans in Peru, Spain and Colombia and focuses on safety “especially for women.” The program pages describe Don Leo as a Kokama shaman with more than 40 years of work with medicinal plants and 20 years with foreign guests. Neither gives a surname. The operator lists a Peruvian phone number and a Gmail address. “Amazonka” is the word for the Amazon in Polish and Russian, and the Russian spelling in its address field suggests the account was set up in Russian, but we found no YouTube channel, website or company behind the “TV” name. No founding date or legal entity is published. We did not independently verify anyone’s credentials.

Prep & Integration Tips

Before you go: Confirm the location and the healer, ask for a health questionnaire even though none is published, disclose every medication and condition, and talk with your own doctor well before the trip. Ask how far apart any kambo, San Pedro or bufo will be from ayahuasca. After you return: Arrange support from a qualified therapist at home. Our guide on how to research ayahuasca incidents can help you check any center.

Pros & Cons

Book Your Ceremony

Bookings go through the operator’s Retreat Guru page, or by contacting Nina at +51 989 752 668. All programs are listed with “Open Dates.” Before paying, confirm in writing the exact location, the healers’ full names, the medicines and their timing, the emergency arrangements and the refund terms. Best Retreats does not take bookings; learn more about our mission.

Last reviewed October 2026.

This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Consult a qualified medical professional.