Tourism as a research subject causes anthropologists great uneasiness, possibly because of the commanalities between anthropologits and tourists. Anthropologists have considered themselves the experts on culture who can legitimately telol stories about the "other". With the incresading access of tourists to the "other", hiwever, anthropologists do not own the disouorse anymore. Much of the anthropological disourse on tourism has focused on the effects of tourism rather than the motives and experiences of tourists. In this chapter, I will address some of the motives of shamanic tourists, as well as how they perceive the phenomenon they participate in, using data collected in Iquitos, Peru, between 2003 and 2007