Adventures on the
By any yardstick, the Amazon is astonishing and is possibly the most rewarding nature expedition in the world.
A fifth of all the fresh water on earth is in the Amazon Basin, and at the many mouths, 4.5 trillion gallons of water pour into the Atlantic Ocean every day.
manatees and yellow-spotted river turtles and Giant Amazonian Water Lilies with pads 3 to 6 feet in diameter and single white blooms that only last two nights.
At 4,000 miles, the Amazon is edged out by the Nile as the world’s longest river, but by any other measure, it has no equal. The natural phenomenon that is the Amazon basin contains at least a third of the world’s remaining rainforest – the planet’s greatest natural resource.
It is from here that you begin to explore the countless tributaries of
the river where the water is black. Naturalist guides take you into narrow creeks which reveal the jungle canopy where scarlet macaws are illuminated by shards of sunlight, three- toed sloths graze lazily on the succulent leaves,
Amazonia boasts one of the most incredible displays of nature’s majesty. In the Peruvian Amazon, there’s the chance to encounter the giant, silvery-gold Dorado Catfish. This water system is also the habitat of the rare ‘boto’, or pink river dolphin. Explored from Iquitos, cruises set a course towards the headwaters of the Amazon River and the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve. Apart from being a bird-lovers paradise, there’s the chance to see giant otters, Amazonian
startlingly blue morpho butterflies are as big as a thrush, and howler monkeys live up to their name. To add to the experience, savour the Amazonian cuisine including: hearts of palm soufflé, scallops with wild almonds and umari fruit, plantain and yucca gnocchi, and escolar fish in aji panka chili adobo.
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