Luxury Amazon Expedition - Low Water

Arrive on an afternoon flight and be warmly greeted by the crew at Iquitos International Airport. Transfer privately to downtown Iquitos for a panoramic city tour and a welcome lunch before continuing to Nauta port for embarkation. 

Settle into your spacious suite and prepare for an extraordinary adventure ahead. After meeting your expert naturalist guides and attending a safety briefing, gather in the restaurant to enjoy your first taste of Amazon-inspired cuisine, artfully crafted by Aria Amazon’s acclaimed consulting chef, Pedro Miguel Schiaffino.

Note: Embarkation time is 4:30 pm

Begin the day exploring the Ucayali River in search of remarkable wildlife, including parrots, egrets, hawks, and monkeys. After breakfast, choose from a range of activities—fish for the Amazon’s infamous piranhas, canoe, kayak, or swim in the black waters of Clavero Lake. Alternatively, visit an Amazonian village to engage with native ribereños (people of the river). After dinner, enjoy a leisurely evening walk through the floodplain forest of San José de Paranapura.

As the day begins, embark on a morning wildlife excursion on the extraordinary Amazon River. After breakfast, explore the Tahuayo River, a black water tributary of the Amazon River, while your naturalist guides share stories of Amazonia. After lunch, take a jungle walk at San Pedro or Puerto Prado’s forest to learn about the Amazonian flora and fauna. At dusk, explore the Amazon River in search of exotic nocturnal wildlife.

This morning, visit the local fresh market with your guides who can identify the day’s catch by the Amazonian fishermen as well as the region’s exotic fruits. After breakfast, take a short boat ride along the Marañon River, where you can have the opportunity to visit a group of Amazonian artisans and learn the art of weaving palm fibers, as traditionally done in the Peruvian Amazon.

In the afternoon, visit a beekeeper in the community in San Francisco before heading out on skiffs to witness one of the great spectacles of the Southern Hemisphere, the birthplace of the Amazon River. At night, meet the new passengers who have signed on for the four-night trip, as you start your journey along the Marañon River.

Get an early start to the day with a birdwatching excursion along the Marañon River. After breakfast, explore the black waters of Yanayacu Pucate River with a possibility of seeing sloths, great egrets, parrots, and Taricaya turtles. Visit an Amazon village to witness a demonstration of Aguaje palm harvesting. After lunch, head out on skiffs for a piranha fishing excursion. Finally, at nighttime, sail along the Yanayaquillo River in search of nocturnal wildlife amidst a sky full of stars.

The rewards of your early start today are plentiful, including a picnic lunch under the Amazonian shade, orchestrated to the sound of the jungle symphony. Go fishing along the black waters of the Samiria River and choose to go on a jungle walk, canoeing, kayaking, or swimming inside the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve. Later, cruise along the Ucayali River and enjoy the sunset.

After breakfast, embark on a morning skiff excursion on the Marañon River. Make sure to bring along your binoculars as you try to spot sloths and birds along this majestic river. In the afternoon, sail along the river to go to Puerto Prado, an indigenous village, where there’ll be an opportunity to see giant water lilies.

In the morning, take a guided visit to the local market and marvel at the regional produce of the Peruvian Amazon. Return to Aria Amazon for breakfast before disembarkation. En route to the airport, visit the Manatee Rescue Center, where orphaned Amazonian manatees rehabilitate before they are released back into the wild.