LTPAC001 - LTPAC003 Amazon river cruise

Iquitos to Iquitos 7 days, Sunday - Saturday

Iquitos to Tres Fronteras 4 days, Sunday - Wednesday

Tres Fronteras to Iquitos 4 days, Wednesday - Saturday

Months Operating: Year Round, semi - private services

Min. No. Of Pax: 1 / +

The M.V. Rio Amazonas was reconstructed in 1981, following a long career as a passenger/cargo boat on the Amazon, and refurbished again in 1994. She now carries 44 passengers in 21 air-conditioned cabins on an itinerary which explores life on the river and its people. It has been designed as an informal cruise ship that enables the international traveler to explore the Amazon in basic comfort.

The major public rooms on the M.V. Rio Amazonas - the dining room and library - are air-conditioned, and there is ample deck area, both covered and uncovered, with comfortable deck chairs and hammocks for a leisurely look at life on the river. For relaxation, night or day, the sun deck also boasts a Jacuzzi.

The recently renovated upper deck cabins all have a private bath/shower and picture windows for a perfect view of the river. Two beds with reading lamps and a small writing desk and chair complete the cabins' furnishings. Sun deck cabins are larger, have two twin beds, a third bed, a small closet and a chair.

Pacaya-Samiria Nature Reserve Cruise

LTPAC007 Pacaya - Samiria Nature Reserve Cruise

6 days, Sunday 10h00 am, returns Friday 15h00 pm, semi - private services
Easy to Moderate. Year round availability. Start in Iquitos. Transfer to docks available upon request.
Departure from Iquitos on board the M/V Arca and sail on the Nanay, Ucayali, Maranon and Samiria rivers. Visit the indigenous village of Solterito, the Varzea forest, Lago Fortuna(Fortuna Lake), Nauta Cano preserve and terra firme where you can enter the forest through various trails.
The reflection of hundreds of snow-white Great Egrets flash off the black-glass lake, pink dolphins surface gracefully in pairs. A sloth moves slowly in the tree top. At 5 million acres, the Pacaya Samiria Natural Reserve, locally called "The mirrored forest", is the second largest reserve in Peru. In this carefully protected area there are 85 lakes, 250 species of fish, 132 mammal species, 150 reptile species, 449 bird species and 22 species of orchids. The reserve is the home of the largest variety of Flora in Peru.

Amazon Canopy Tour

LTPA005 Amazon Canopy Tour
5 days, any day, semi - private services
Months Operating: Year Round
Min. No. Of Pax: 1 / +
Explorama Lodge and Explornapo Camp offer some of the best wildlife viewing.

250,000-acre Amazon Biosphere Reserve and Explornapo Camp. Afternoon hike through primary terra firma reserve (non-flooding) rain forest. Evenings excursion by canoe on the small Sucusari river. Bird watching excursion. Walk to Aceer laboratory. Hike by tree platforms, reaching more than 100 feet/30 meters above the ground and giving a view over the tree tops. There is plenty of time to view a part of the rain forest rarely seen by man. Excursion to a black-water oxbow lake, formed when water from the Napo river becomes separated from the main flow of the river. These lakes are often covered by giant Victoria Regina water lilies. Excursion to the neighboring Yagua Indian community, where you will get a description of their native culture, blow gun demonstrations and trading, or take a walk to the river's edge to see a local school, store and sugar cane rum factory. Then a three and a half hour boat ride upriver to Iquitos. Transport to the airport. Full board

Manu Wildlife Center

LTPA0024 - LTPA0025 Manu Wildlife Center
4 days, Mon/Thu & Wed/Sat & Fri/Mon (by plane)
5 days, Thu/Mon & Sat/Wed (by plane)
Semi - private services

Because it protects an entire virgin watershed from Andean grasslands to elfin forests, and cloud forests to high and low elevation rainforests, the Manu Biosphere reserve is the most important rainforest park in the world. The Reserve which is half the size of Switzerland and span elevations from 1,000 ft. to 12,000 ft. Above sea level , boasts word-record diversities of bird (more than 100 species) mammals, (more than 200 species), reptiles, amphibians, fresh-water fishes, insects and plants (over 15,000 species). No other park on earth can compare with in terms of sheer variety of life forms. A patch of lowland rainforest in Manu harbors 40% more species of birds than a comparable patch of forest in Central Amazonian Brazil. Furthermore, no other area in North or South America offers such superb viewing of rare or difficult to observe animals, such as two-meter long Giant Otters, numerous large and small species of monkeys (13 species ), white and black caiman (crocodiles), seven species of macaws (the worldÕs largest parrots), ten species of tucans, guans, curassows, and trumpeters (all rare game birds), and the largest animal in Central and South America, the Tapir. Finally, Manu offers the best chance on earth to see a wild Jaguar, approximately one in ten tourist groups spots this beautiful cat.