South America Wilderness & Eco-Lodge Trips

This Patagonian tour is an epic 12-day adventure exploring the highlights of Patagonia. Begin your journey in Tierra del Fuego National Park, explore the Patagonian Fjords on an Australis cruise, take in the stunning landscapes of Torres del Paine and end your journey in El Calafate, Argentina. You'll cruise the fjords & channels of Tierra del Fuego inaccessible by land, visit the penguin rookery on Magdalena Island, hike the famed trails of Torres del Paine National Park, and trek Perito Moreno Glacier.

Journey through the Sacred Valley to Machu Picchu and explore the Peruvian Amazon in this 10 day tour. Spend 3 nights in the Amazon, observing the multitude of wildlife. Continue to Cusco and make your way through the Sacred Valley, exploring markets and ruins. Your trip culminates at Machu Picchu, one of the new seven wonders of the world.

Explore the Amazon rainforest on this 5-day tour from Puerto Maldonado. Hike on the floodplain trails, search for frogs at night, and look for the gleaming eyes of the caiman during your stay at the comfortable and enthralling Tambopata Research Center.

Flying from Quito to the Amazonian city of Coca, board a canoe down the Napo River where we'll have four nights exploring the Amazon rainforest at Sacha Lodge. Luxury accommodations, gourmet cuisine, English-speaking naturalists & indigenous guides revealing monkeys, birds & Amazonian wildlife will make your weeklong trip to Ecuador unforgettable.

Take your family on a Peruvian trip to the Amazon rainforest from the comfort of Refugio Amazonas on this exciting 4-day tour. Enjoy climbing a 30 meter canopy tower, take a catamaran around Lake Condenado and let your kids explore the trail for children as you immerse yourself in the stunning nature of this dense verdant jungle.

Posadas Amazonas is the perfect place for you to experience the beauty and nature of the Amazon rainforest on this 4-day adventure tour from Puerto Maldonado, Peru. You can participate in jungle walks, visit an oxbow lake, and watch for wildlife around every corner.

Experience the wonders of the Amazon rainforest on this 4 day tour. Go on the Anaconda Walk, search for wildlife, and explore a rainforest garden during your stay at Reserva Amazonica lodge. Along the way, keep an eye out for a variety of amazing wildlife such as caimans, osprey, trogons and sloths.

Experience a snapshot of the Amazon rainforest during your stay at the Hacienda Concepcion on this entrancing 4-day tour. Learn about the local farmers, listen to the sounds of the rainforest at night and look for footprints to track animals. You will also have the chance to canoe down the Madre de Dios River and meet local people.

Discover Ecuador on this 15-day Andes and Amazon adventure. Explore Quito’s Old Town, shop at Otavalo Market, wander Cuenca’s colonial streets, ride the Devil’s Nose Train, hike Chimborazo, and follow the Route of the Waterfalls to Baños. Enjoy jungle hikes, wildlife viewing, and community visits in the Amazon rainforest.

During this weeklong hands-on Guyana adventure tour you'll experience what it really takes to survive in the jungle with instruction in fire- and shelter-building, scavenging for food, and basic survival skills from your local Amerindian Guide. It also includes visit to the Amazonian Iwokrama Forest and Kaieteur & Orinduik Falls and the Surama Village.

Explore the Casanare Region in Colombia, a vast plain with extensive ranches that still preserve the traditions and culture of the region. During this 5-day Casanare Wildlife Safari in Colombia, witness incredible wildlife in El Encanto de Guanapalo natural reserve and experience their customs with Llaneros while riding horses through the savannahs

Explore the beauty of the Amazon on a 6-day trip to Manu Wildlife Center in Peru. Watch as tapirs and macaws feed on clay licks, boat down the river and search for nocturnal animals like the caiman on this exciting itinerary. Active opportunities include hikes, canopy towers, boating in oxbow lakes and more.

Travel to the remote Amazon Rainforest on your trip to Peru. Watch in awe as woodpeckers, tanagers, macaws, toucans and parakeets fly around the treetops on this 5-day adventure at Manu Wildlife Center. Your trip will give you the chance to intimately experience nature from trails, canopy towers, oxbow lakes, and rivers!

From the comfort of the Tambopata Research Center, visit the largest known macaw salt lick in the Amazon and travel deep into the wildest area of the Amazon jungle on this engaging 6-night active itinerary into Peru's rainforest. Learn about the nature while hiking the trails and exploring the center from naturalist guides and scientists.

Explore the Amazon rainforest, one of the most biodiverse regions in the world, while staying at an eco-lodge like Calanoa Amazonas during this 5-day Calanoa Amazonas Experience in Colombia. Learn about conservation efforts to preserve wildlife while viewing exotic species and their natural habitats.

Experience the world's largest waterfall system - Iguazu Falls - on this amazing 5-day Argentina vacation. Take the "most beautiful thousand meter walk in the world" overlooking the Falls, then search for rainforest wildlife as you spend three nights at Yacutinga Lodge experiencing the subtropical rainforest straddling the Argentina-Brazil border.

On this 5-day tour, visit a traditional estancia built outside of Torres del Paine National Park. Immerse yourself in real estancia life by learning the traditions and daily work of the gauchos. Travel through the most incredible landscapes using a 4x4 vehicle, or enjoy the natural beauty that surrounds the ranch on foot or by horseback.

This 4-day extension tour of Brazil is based at Caiman Lodge, the world's largest tropical wetland housing the largest concentration of wildlife in the Americas. The Pantanal is home to jaguars, caimans and capybaras and hundreds of bird species. Spend your days hiking & canoeing the surrounding area in search of unique flora and fauna.