Amazon Lodges

Ten amazing days spent in the jungle lodges of the upper Amazon Valley in Peru. Vertually untouched - virgin rain forests. Quite an adventure but one of the best trips I have ever taken - inspite of being stranded on the Amazon River for 11 hous ( ...

... with boats and ships of all sizes.  Lumberyards piled high with sawdust and boards - the only remnants of disappearing Amazon trees.   As we headed further from Iquitos, small wooden canoes, working in tandem littered the river, working to ...

... Venezuela. Instead of cockroaches though we did have a native rat which ran around our ceiling all night and with all lodges sharing communal walls we could hear him rummage through peoples plastic bags during the night. He was pretty cute looking ...

hi guys and girls, well i went to the amazon jungle and safely returned with all fingers and toes intact!!!! We stayed at a lodge called the Yacuma on the Napa river which has now become part of the amazon againm as Ecuador lost it to the Peruvian in ...

... would definitely choose both Belem and Santarem to visit before Manaus. They both had more to offer, and had good areas on the waterfront (to get a feel of being on tghe Amazon). However, to get to many of the jungle lodges, one is obliged to pass ...

... day stopover. The next morning we were picked up and taken to the office where we met up with another group who also booked with Amazon Riders. It was about a two and a half hour journey before we got to our destination. Along the way we saw the mixing of ...

So here´s a rundown of what we actually are doing in the Amazon. Each day we are on one of 5 activities - point counts, netting, mammals, plants or camp duty. What your day is like depends on the activity and may start at 4am, or you may be lucky and ...

Muyuna Lodge is situated on the Yanayacu River, a tributary of the Amazon River, downstream from Iquitos. It lies on the edge of the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, the largest such in Peru. Situated on a small tributary, the only traffic on the river is ...

... from the heat of the day, but nothing more. We found our small aluminium boat, then departed for Jessonia near 1000h. The Amazon is full of garbage -- natural garbage, flotsam, like fallen trees, bushes, etc. -- but it makes for slow going. We had ...

... where there was nothing but silence and pitch black, all we had was one spotlight and an engine propelling us accross the amazon river under the totally clear black and white sky (gabazillion stars) complete with the silouhette of the amazon trees in the ...

... certainly a different experience... From Tena, we took a taxi that drove us a further 30mins in to the Amazon basin were we settled into some gorgeous jungle lodges for the evening. We didn´t have electricity in our lodge (only in the common areas like ...

... to find a local Peruvian partner so he can set up business. 20 grams of gold per day is some decent pocket money! The Amazon was an incredible experience and definitely lived up to all our expectations. We have been so lucky to spend time in Galapagos and ...

... the Peruvian Amazon.   About 25% of all pharmaceutical medicines used today are from ingredients derived from the  Amazon Rainforest... that's 121 different varieties... with only 1% of all trees and plants being tested.   The Amazon River ...

... ,  Lima has some pretty parks and neighbourhoods, wonderful restaurants and stunning views.  Final stop: Iquitos and the Amazon. I've dreamed of drifting down the Amazon River since I was a little kid (the Rev was less ...

... us, that we had been looking at the very upper reaches of the river in Cusco with the Urubamba River. It's just that the Amazon has different names in different regions. So we went from near the source of the Amazon to this huuuge river 1200 km downstream ...

... what to do. The road stops here. The good stuff lies beyond this city, by way of river, into the deeper Amazon areas. There lies expensive lodges, huge turtles, rare birds and cute little monkeys. To be honest, after a couple nights with nothing but my ...

... it in Brazil three months ago. Plus, what could be a better location to show off Renee`s newly manicured toenails than deep lush Amazon rainforest? Reading of a lodge that was surrounded by the Amazon and that could only be reached by boat along the river ...

... (faye) and a stomach cramp. but what happened in between was worth hundreds of bites. Despite what people claim about the amazon quickly becoming an over inhabited, dangerous place with not that much wildlife, our experience has taught us that this is not ...

... went to the Tiwa Lodge and had a party on the beach. This lodge was a 5 star resort it was breathtaking, there were little lodges around a lake. The beach party was fun my favorite part of the trip wasn't the lodge or the luau or any material thing we ...