Amazon Canopy Tour
Description
- Duration: 5 days / 4 nights
- Start / End: Iquitos / Iquitos
- Activities: Nature and wildlife watching, walks, canoe rides
- Highlights: Amazon and Napo Rivers, Amazon Biosphere Reserve, flooded forests, flooded forests, walks on tree platforms, Yagua Indian community
- Season: All Year
- Included: Local guides, accommodation and all meals mentioned in itinerary, all transfers detailed in itinerary, excursions
- Not included: Tips, domestic and international flights, meals not mentioned in itinerary
- Prices: Please contact us for pricing
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Day by Day Itinerary
Iquitos - Explorama Lodge
Met on arrival at the airport and transfer to Explorama dock. (80kms/50 miles) 2 ½ hour journey up the Amazon river to Explorama Lodge. An afternoon hike along the lake trail through lowland rain forest that is seasonally flooded. (L/D)
Explorama Lodge - Explornapo Camp
A four-hour boat ride (80 kms/50 mile) down the Amazon and up the Napo river, to the 250,000-acre Amazon Biosphere Reserve and Explornapo Camp. Afternoon hike through primary terra firma reserve (non-flooding) rain forest. Evening excursion by canoe on the small Sucusari river. (B/L/D)
Explornapo Camp
Optional early bird watching excursion. A one-hour walk to Aceer laboratory. Morning 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. Afternoon 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. (B/L/D)
Explornapo Camp - Explorama Lodge
Optional early morning bird watching excursion. Morning canoeing trip along one of the Napo tributaries, where you can spot sloths, watch birds and even try fishing for piranha. Afternoon boat trip back to Explorama Lodge passing by San Francisco de Orellana, where a statue is erected commemorating the intrepid explorer who, at the mouth of the Napo river, became the first European to see the Amazon river. (B/L/D)
Explorama Lodge - Iquitos
Morning 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. (B)
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- Duration: 5 days / 4 nights
- Start / End: Iquitos / Iquitos
- Activities: Nature and wildlife watching, walks, canoe rides
- Highlights: Amazon and Napo Rivers, Amazon Biosphere Reserve, flooded forests, flooded forests, walks on tree platforms, Yagua Indian community
- Season: All Year
- Included: Local guides, accommodation and all meals mentioned in itinerary, all transfers detailed in itinerary, excursions
- Not included: Tips, domestic and international flights, meals not mentioned in itinerary
- Prices: Please contact us for pricing
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Tour Plan
Iquitos - Explorama Lodge
Met on arrival at the airport and transfer to Explorama dock. (80kms/50 miles) 2 ½ hour journey up the Amazon river to Explorama Lodge. An afternoon hike along the lake trail through lowland rain forest that is seasonally flooded. (L/D)
Explorama Lodge - Explornapo Camp
A four-hour boat ride (80 kms/50 mile) down the Amazon and up the Napo river, to the 250,000-acre Amazon Biosphere Reserve and Explornapo Camp. Afternoon hike through primary terra firma reserve (non-flooding) rain forest. Evening excursion by canoe on the small Sucusari river. (B/L/D)
Explornapo Camp
Optional early bird watching excursion. A one-hour walk to Aceer laboratory. Morning 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. Afternoon 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. (B/L/D)
Explornapo Camp - Explorama Lodge
Optional early morning bird watching excursion. Morning canoeing trip along one of the Napo tributaries, where you can spot sloths, watch birds and even try fishing for piranha. Afternoon boat trip back to Explorama Lodge passing by San Francisco de Orellana, where a statue is erected commemorating the intrepid explorer who, at the mouth of the Napo river, became the first European to see the Amazon river. (B/L/D)
Explorama Lodge - Iquitos
Morning 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. (B)
