Explore the Amazon with a 3-day adventure, from visiting Belen’s floating houses to wildlife encounters, bird watching, and piranha fishing in pristine rainforests.
OVERVIEWLocation: Peru |
Iquitos TOUCAN Tour
Day 1: Visit the floating houses of Belen, traveling down the Amazon River, walk in the primary forest knowing medicinal plants and the wild life of the reserve. |
Day 2: Walk a primary rain forest, look for monkeys, birds, sloths, medicinal plants, visit to the Yagua native community. Tour by the amazon river, observing sloths, monkeys, turtles, caymans, anacondas. |
Day 3: Bird watching, piranha fishing. |
ITINERARY DETAILSDay 1:Visit the floating houses of Belen, traveling down the Amazon River, walk in the primary forest knowing medicinal plants and the wild life of the reserve Day 2:Walk a primary rain forest, look for monkeys, birds, sloths, medicinal plants, visit to the Yagua native community. Tour by the amazon river, observing sloths, monkeys, turtles, caymans, anacondas. Early jungle walk to a primary rain forest to look for monkeys, birds, sloths, medicinal plants, orchids. Breakfast, and visit the “Yagua” Indians to see their native clothing and own dialect demonstration of the old way of typical hunting with the Blowgun”, Processed handy crafts that could be traded or bought. After lunch, tour by the Amazon river visiting a small zoo to see varieties of animals like: sloths, monkeys, turtles, Caymans, the famous Anacondas Constrictor, (non-poisonous) After another chance to see the beautiful Amazonian Sunset, we go on a nocturnal lake excursion in canoes, with the possibility of observing Caymans (Alligators). Dinner and overnight. Day 3: Bird watching, piranha fishingEarly canoe ride to go bird watching in their natural habitat of the “Shansho lake” our biological area. Breakfast and we go by foot to a secondary trail to see the riverside huts, farms and see the way the local people live. Walk to the Yanayacu river for canoe ride, piranha fishing (as well as other species of Amazon fish), bird watching, and the way back we do by a primary jungle. typical lunch and return to Iquitos. Transfer to the hotel or airport. |