AMAZON RIVER VOYAGE
Over the 38 years that International Expeditions has been leading Amazon River cruises, our guests have enjoyed unrivaled access to the Peruvian rainforest’s most pristine areas and the company of the river’s most knowledgeable guides.
Your exciting daily excursions include birding at dawn, school visits in local villages and even piranha fishing! Join IE and be transported to the Amazon of your imagination to discover a rainforest that pulsates with an unrivaled diversity of wildlife.
Authentic Amazon River Experience Aboard this luxury Amazon River cruise, you’ll create a lifetime of memories: the joy in the eyes of a village child when you visit their school; the enveloping darkness of the jungle; or the awe possible. of floating along narrow streams accompanied by pink dolphins. Drawing on insight from our native Amazon travel guides, Explore with Pioneers in Amazon Travel International Expeditions intentionally varies the villages and International Expeditions pioneered travel to the Peruvian tributaries we visit, ensuring you get the most authentic Amazon, and our nature-focused, small-group expedition travel rainforest tour experience remains the standard for Amazon Voyage expedition cruises. IE not only pioneered travel to this region, we still work with many of the naturalist guides that we helped to train. Ensuring a worry-free and educational journey, these expert local naturalist guides — along with an expedition leader — accompany our Amazon Voyage cruises. Each day, these knowledgeable Amazon River travel guides use their decades of learning and guiding experience to serve as lecturers, field guides and friends as you explore the rainforest.
Go Deeper Into the Rainforest
01432 507 280 (within UK) [email protected] | small-cruise-ships.com International Expeditions’ exclusive Amazon River tour covers the entire way! On our Amazon Voyage adventure, travel more than 600 miles on the Amazon and its tributaries. You waterways aboard sturdy excursion boats to areas where we travel deep into the protected Pacaya-Samiria Reserve and may find marsh birds such as oriole blackbirds, green ibis, explore three different habitats so you have the best chance of yellow-headed caracaras, black-capped donacobis and spotting rare wildlife! On our Amazon River cruises, we look for white-headed marsh-tyrant. We turn into the Río Ucayali, where monkeys, birds, sloths and other mammals, pink and gray we’re apt to find gray river dolphins and Amazon pink dolphins dolphins and so much more. cavorting near the boat and along the shoreline. Later we take an excursion into the surrounding rainforest in search of giant ITINERARY water lilies and elusive wildlife such as monkeys and sloths. As DAY 1 Arrive Lima dusk approaches, fishing bats begin their night’s foraging. Fly independently to Lima, Peru, the nation’s capital and largest (B,L,D) city, and transfer to the Swissôtel for the night. (D Aloft) DAY 4 Río Ucayali / Pacaya-Samiria Reserve DAY 2 Lima / Iquitos / Embark / Amazon River After a peaceful breakfast along the black-water Sapote Creek, Fly over the Andes to Iquitos. Visit the Manatee Rescue Center, we explore a small tributary of the Ucayali aboard excursion where biologists and volunteers care for endangered Amazon boats. Look for animals including primates, sloths and an manatees that conservation authorities have rescued. Learn enormous variety of birds. Our Amazon Voyage adventure about efforts to help these endearing mammals. See how the continues upriver to the Pacaya-Samiria Reserve. Although manatees are cared for and prepared for reintroduction into scientific studies are far from exhausted, the Pacaya-Samiria is their natural habitat. Board the elegant riverboat, Zafiro, home the known home to 450 bird species, 102 species of for seven nights. Enjoy stargazing and storytelling with our local mammals, over 130 species of reptiles and amphibians, and guides while cruising slowly on the Amazon River toward the countless plants. This afternoon, an excursion into this largest confluence of the Marañón and Ucayali Rivers. (B,L,D) wetland reserve in the world provides the opportunity to see 13 species of primates, including monk sakis, red howler, DAY 3 Confluence of the Amazon River / Río Ucayali saddle-backed tamarin and squirrel monkeys. Explore Caro We awake this morning on the Amazon River, seeing some of Lake, connected to the river by way of a very small stream, the ever-changing panorama of jungle life as the Amazon River where we may find flocks of greater ani, often seen following cruise ship continues upriver. Small villages dot the shoreline, monkeys in search of insects disturbed by the monkeys’ and channels weaving through island mazes provide close-up foraging. We enjoy a nighttime boat excursion for a chance to views of a variety of birds. The confluence of the Ucayali and find caimans, capybaras, common potoos, frogs and other Marañón Rivers is famous as the beginning of the Amazon River nocturnal wildlife. (B,L,D) in Peru. Amazingly, we are about 2,400 miles from where the river flows into the Atlantic. The river drops only about 350 feet DAY 5 Rio Pacaya / Pacaya-Samiria Reserve
01432 507 280 (within UK) [email protected] | small-cruise-ships.com Spend the day exploring this flooded realm, seeing wading birds treatment plant. The clean drinking water provided by these such as herons, wattled jacanas and horned screamers. plants is having an enormous positive health impact in remote Venturing deep into the rainforest, tour an igapo (seasonally river villages. Learn about medicinal plants and enjoy a blessing flooded forest), where plant life is very different from what we ceremony by a respected village shaman. Aboard the ship, learn see along the main course of our Amazon cruise, and walk to make traditional Peruvian dishes or enjoying an enriching through the forest. Lucky guests may release turtle hatchlings. A lecture. After dark, go out in excursion boats to listen to the delicious lunch energizes us for afternoon excursions with our sounds of the rainforest and look for nocturnal wildlife. (B,L,D) expert naturalists, where we may find scarlet macaws, hoatzins, black-collared hawks and red howler monkeys. (B,L,D) DAY 8 Amazon River Wake up early for a morning birdwatching excursion along the DAY 6 Pacaya-Samiria Reserve Yarapa River. After breakfast, try your hand at piranha fishing in After an early breakfast, we board excursion boats for access Ubos Lake. Piranha are very common in the slower-moving even further into the heart of these vast wetlands. As our water. With luck, we may catch red-breasted, white or black Amazon Voyage adventure cruises the narrow waterways, we’ll piranha, and feast on our catch this evening at dinner. Once find birds such as canary-winged parakeets and spectacular back aboard your luxury Amazon River cruise ship, we enjoy a blue-and-gold and scarlet macaws. Primates also are fairly farewell dinner. (B,L,D) common, including noisy squirrel monkeys. Once we arrive at a remote ranger station, enjoy a refreshing swim. Gradually make DAY 9 Iquitos / Lima / Depart our way back to the riverboat through the maze of waterways. On an early morning excursion to Pilpintuwasi Rescue Center, Enjoy an al fresco lunch and time to relax before our afternoon see two- and three-toed sloth, red uakari and even a jaguar excursion. (B,L,D) which have been rescued. Upon arrival back in Lima late this afternoon, dayrooms are provided until time to connect with DAY 7 Río Ucayali independent overnight flights home. (B,L) Head back downriver, with a morning wildlife or other activity. Visit a village along the river, with the chance to learn about the DAY 10 Arrive Home lives of the “Ribereño” people who live there. Accompanied by Arrive Sunday and connect with flights home. (Meals Aloft) guides who grew up along the river, this is a fantastic opportunity to stroll through gardens learning about medicinal Please Note: Itineraries are subject to change. plants and folklore, visit a school, or join in a game of soccer. The children are especially excited to see their faces on digital cameras and to show off their school and sing Peruvian songs. Depending on the villages visited during your Amazon River tour, you may also have the opportunity to see an IE-funded water
01432 507 280 (within UK) [email protected] | small-cruise-ships.com YOUR SHIP: ZAFIRO
YOUR SHIP: Zafiro
VESSEL TYPE: River Boat
LENGTH: 50 metres
PASSENGER CAPACITY: 38
BUILT/REFURBISHED: 2015
Travel aboard the Zafiro, a luxurious vessel we have chartered for your adventure, which blends stylish design and modern comforts. Classic touches include magnificent floor-to-ceiling windows and -- for those on the Upper Deck -- private balconies. A ship staff and crew of 25, including a cruise passing scenery. director and local naturalist guides, are joined by an IE GLIDE past the Amazon rainforest and clusters of wooden Expedition Leader to ensure an unprecedented level of service. houses on stilts with children playing soccer as you sip morning All 19 spacious suites are air-conditioned and feature en-suite coffee and take in the fresh air from the river's most luxurious bathrooms, a desk and ample closet space. Observation Deck. Siesta on a cushioned lounger beneath a PUBLIC SPACES soaring canopy -- ideal for avoiding the sun's glare. Plus, ease SAVOR regional specialties and contemporary cuisine infused into the Zafiro's outdoor Jacuzzi to relax after a shore excursion. with flavors from the surrounding rainforest. The atmosphere is INDULGE in aromatherapy or a massage in the spa, which is casual yet elegant as you sample Amazon fusion cuisine while staffed by a wellness specialist. enjoying spectacular views from the panoramic windows. CONNECT with fellow travelers, chat with your local guides or enjoy snacks and a drink in the large indoor lounge. The comfortable furnishings make a perfect spot for relaxing with a book or enjoying the
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ADDITIONAL CHARGES: Charter Flights 409 USD pp
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