Editor’s Pick of Amazon Tours

The Tahuayo Lodge is associated with an Amazon Research Center where you can visit an extensive trail network for observing a high diversity of Amazon Jungle monkeys. In fact, the Tahuayo Reserve was founded to protect a rare primate named the Uakari. With your Private guide (as standard), you will take Amazon jungle tours in the Tahuayo & you can choose from the greatest number of itinerary options in Amazonia.

The Tucano River Amazon Cruise is a highly regarded Amazon tour from Manaus. You will take guided trips into the surrounding wilderness & cruise different sections of the Brazilian Amazon. See the famed meeting of the waters, visit many tributaries, & take forest walks & small boat trips to spot iconic Amazon wildlife.

If this is your first Amazon jungle tour, the Posada Amazonas is a good choice as it’s only 45 minutes from the small town of Puerto Maldonado in south Peru. The Posada has Rainforest Alliance certification & is owned by a native community. On the tour, you can enjoy the parrot clay licks & try to spot toucans & other wildlife on the canopy tower, find river otters on the lake, or relax with a massage in the wellness center. You can choose additional activities like canopy climbing, kayaking & more.

Famous as one of the Amazon’s most remote lodges, you are only a short distance from the largest macaw clay lick in Amazonia. Talk to researchers about their findings, explore five contrasting habitats on Amazon rainforest tours & choose activities like mountain biking, canopy climbing & more. You can also choose specific macaw itineraries to visit nest boxes & see what it’s like to be a macaw researchers.

Stay inside Manu National Park at our low impact lodge, which was specifically designed to cause minimal impact on surrounding wildlife. Visit one of the most beautiful oxbow lakes in Manu & visit the macaw clay licks to see famous colorful Amazon birds. You will tour the lake in search of Giant Otters & other wildlife, & you can combine Manu Tented Camp with the Andean cloud forest & / or Manu Wildlife Center.

The Huaorani are a fun & welcoming tribal group who have turned to ecotourism specifically to show off their fantastic forest & to protect the incredibly bio diverse Yasuni National Park. Learn about the Huaorani, listen to stories, view fantastic wildlife, see if you can shoot a blow gun, & find out how the Huaorani make the Amazon Rainforest home.