Tour Details

All our tours are based on a minimum of 2 people. If you are traveling alone please contact us to provide a quote according to the tour you want.

We can make more flexible tours, also to couples on their honeymoon, marriage anniversaries, groups or large families, trips for student promotions and organizations or companies.

We adapt ourselves to those people who have a vegetarian or vegan diet. If you have any food allergies, please specify when you make your reservation to provide a menu according to your needs. For those who do not opt for vegetarian or vegan food our meals include fish, chicken, pork or local beef.

We strive to maintain a low use of plastic so we would appreciate if you bring your own bottle or container to be refilled with purified water during the tour and its activities.

Departure and return schedules

Departure time: 8:00 AM

Return time: 5:00 PM (3 Day later)

Place of departure: from the airport or your accommodation.

Place of return: Our office in Iquitos.

The service includes

• Professional bilingual guide (English/Spanish)
• Private transfer from airport or accommodation
• All ground transportation needed
• All boat transportation needed
• Lodge accommodation
• All tickets to the places visited
• All meals (Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner)
• Purified water, juice, cooffe and tea
• First aid equipment
• Gum boots
• All fishing equipment
• Antiophidic serum (antidote for snakebite)
• Electricity to charge devices (6 to 9 PM)

The service not include

• Additional items (souvenirs, extra food, cigarettes, etc.)
• Air tickets (We can help you arrange cheap flight offers on request)
• Departure tax from the airport (if it’s applicable)
• Personal Expenses: telephone calls, laundry expenses, alcoholic beverages, etc.
• Insurance against theft, loss, illness or accident
• Tips for Tourist Guides
• Hotel in the city of Iquitos

Pay ment methods to book a tour

We accept PayPal, Visa and MasterCard online payments to make your reservations. If you wish to pay with Visa or MasterCard online, contact us for details on how to proceed. In our office, we accept Peruvian Soles (PEN), United States Dollars (USD) and Euros (EUR)

Recommendations

We recommend bringing comfortable, long and light clothing to protect against mosquitoes, trekking shoes, hat, mosquito repellent, sunscreen, bottle or personal container for water, headlamp.

If you have any questions please review our Frequently Asked Questions and do not hesitate to contact us, we are available 24 hours a day

Day 1

We will begin the rout in the morning from the airport or your accommodation in a private vehicle towards the port of Bellavista Nanay. During the journey, our guide will make a brief historical review of the city of Iquitos and about the activities we will do during the day.

Once at the port of Bellavista Nanay, we can see and appreciate the market where merchants from nearby communities sell their products. Then we will sail in a typical boat (pamacari) for about 10 minutes along the Nanay River downstream until we reach the confluence of the Nanay and Amazonas rivers. There you will be able to see the difference of color between the rivers, black water from Nanay River and brown or white water from Amazonas river.

We will continue our trip downstream for an hour and a half to the lodge with its characteristic rustic style. During the trip you can enjoy the beautiful landscape and have the possibility to see the gray river dolphins (Sotalia fluviatilis) and pink (Inia geoffrensis), diversity of birds such as the yellow billed tern (Sternula superciliaris), olivaceous cormorant (Phalacrocorax olivaceus), great egret (Ardea alba), snowy egret (Egretta thula) and ring kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata) among many others, as well as some rural towns and villages on the banks of the river.

Once in the hostel, you will be able to leave your belongings and get comfortable while we prepare to enjoy a nice regional lunch, typical of the Amazon jungle, cooked with products of the area and accompanied by fruits and natural juices.

After lunch, we will continue our trip to the island of the monkeys. There, you can interact directly with different species of primates such as the yellow tailed wooly monkey (Lagothrix lagotricha), black spider monkey (Ateles paniscus), saddle back tamarin (Saguinus fuscicollis), red howler monkey (Alouatta seniculus), pigmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea), monk saki (Pithecia monachus) and san martin titi monkey (Callicebus oenanthe); also parrots and a nice macaw (Ara macao). In addition, you can observe these species of monkeys feeding on natural varieties of plants and fruits that are found there.

After having a pleasant experience, we will leave the island in search of the river dolphins while we prepare to be part of the adrenaline filled experience and we will take a break to swim in the Amazon River, the longest and largest in the world, enjoying the beautiful sunset in the Amazon rainforest to later go to the lodge to enjoy a delicious dinner.

After dinner, we will do a night walk where we could see and identify reptiles, amphibians, mammals and arachnids of nocturnal habits; which are normally hidden during the day. Also we will enjoy a unique show provided by the Amazon, the deafening sound of the jungle at night.

It is time to rest and replenish all our energies.

Accommodation will be provided at the lodge.

Day 2

We will start the day early in the morning to be able to enjoy the beautiful dawn on the Amazon River on board our boat. We will take advantage of the occasion and high bird activity at dawn to go birdwatching. We will take the time to relax, listen and enjoy the birds’ beautiful songs.

Then we will return to the lodge to enjoy a delicious and energizing tropical breakfast accompanied with fruits and natural juices.

Our adventure day will continue with sailing for approximately 30 minutes to the Santa Maria de Fatima village. There we will do an excursion to the primary jungle (virgin), doing recognition of the medicinal plants which have been used to treat diseases by our ancestors since remote times. Also we will also see a diversity of timber trees and learn about their main characteristics; specific association between plants, trees and animals, parasitic plants, epiphytes and vines. During our walk we will have the chance to see monkeys, amphibians, reptiles, arachnids and a variety of insects a in their natural habitat.

After the walk we will return to the lodge and enjoy a nice regional lunch.

Once we finish the lunch, we will continue our route to the San Rafael community to visit the Morphosapi butterfly farm, which is the biggest at Loreto region, where you could observe a wide diversity of butterfly species, learn about their metamorphosis process and also the different stages of their life cycle (larva, chrysalis or pupa and adult).

We will leave the San Rafael community to return to the lodge, rest and enjoy the dinner.

Accommodation will be provided at the lodge.

Day 3

The day will begin by enjoying a tropical breakfast, and then we will set sail in direction to the basin of the Yanayacu River, also known as the “mirror jungle” by the reflection of the water.

Already on the Yanayacu River, we will jump to the mainland to submerge ourselves in the “giant trees kingdom” and make an ethnobotanical walk. We will have the pleasure to see the Ceiba (Ceiba petandra), the largest tree in the Amazon jungle which exceeds 50 meters in height. We will continue our walk paying close attention to the environment, especially to the canopy of the forest trying to identify sloths and monkey species which will be eating and doing daily activities in their natural habitat. Also you could see a variety of birds, insects, arachnids, reptiles and amphibians.

Once we finish our excursion, we will take a break and enjoy our delicious regional lunch.

We will return to our expedition with an approximately 90 minute walk towards the lagoon of "Yagua Cocha", characterized by its black and crystalline waters, great variety of fish and dense surrounding vegetation. We will take advantage of the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful landscape, take photographs and try our luck in sport fishing having the possibility of catching a variety of fish such as the red piranha (Serrasalmus nattereri), flag cichlid (Mesonauta festivus), elongated hatchetfish (Triportheus elongatus) and mojarra (Tetragonopterus argenteus), among others.

After enjoying this beautiful place, we will leave it behind to return to our boat, once there we will start sailing back to the lodge to have dinner and rest until the next day.

Day 4

To start the day, we will enjoy a delicious tropical breakfast accompanied by fruits and natural juices, and then we will embark on our exciting meeting with some members of the Yaguas tribe. Here you can be part of their customs, listen to their history, dialect, songs and of course practice their dances with them. It will be a unique experience, where you will also learn about the blowgun (wind weapon), which is their main hunting weapon. And while we’re at it why not take some practice shots? In addition, if you want you can buy handicrafts that they make with their own hands, contributing to preserve the community and its customs.

After living this unforgettable experience, we will partake in the adrenaline filled sportfishing of piranhas, among other species. Here our guide will make a brief demonstration and explain the correct and safe way of fishing, providing all the necessary equipment. Here, if you wish, you can keep your best captured specimen so that you can later cook it and taste it at the lodge during lunch.

We will return to the lodge and enjoy a nice regional lunch, typical of the area.

The time has come to pack our belongings and begin our trip back to the city of Iquitos arriving at the port of Bellavista Nanay, from where you will be transferred to our office.

* The order of some activities may vary due to operational or weather conditions.