Amazon
Cradled in lush vegetation and living humid air, binoculars ready for the next thrill, you float smoothly down the great jungle rivers, life source of the Peruvian Northern Amazon Basin and the pristine Pacaya-Samiria Reserve. Cruises offer naturalist guides, innovative Amazonian cuisine and even luxury, as you explore the seemingly endless maze of jungle waterways, including the Amazon River as well as the Ucayali, Marañon and Yanayacu-Pucate Rivers.
You can also visit local communities to get a taste for their way of life in the jungle. The reserve is home to an estimated 42,000 indigenous people within its distinct and dynamic ecological habitat, and park staff helps maintain a healthy natural balance, leading initiatives such as the integration of sustainable agriculture.
The gateway to the Peruvian Northern Amazon is the bustling city of Iquitos, a commercial port on the shores of the Amazon River, so immersed in the deep rainforest that it is only accessible by plane. Cruising through the Northern Amazon not only allows you to gain insight into the vast scope of this great jungle, it is an un-deniable and almost too-close-for-comfort immersion into nature at its most impressive and wildest.
The magic of the Amazon isn’t just in the bigger animals and the immense trees; there is so much richness of life in each square meter—the termites and spiders and butterflies—all part of a mind-blowing ecosystem. A far leap from the modern world, delight in the deep sense of peace and perspective offered by the lodges of this region, where YOU get to be slow and still while everything around you is moving and breathing, in a stunning symbiosis that reminds us of the power and magic of nature.
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