ULTIMATE WILDLIFE ADVENTURE

Amazon Rainforest and Galapagos Tour

Imagine yourself drifting down a narrow, winding creek surrounded on all sides by a lush, endless sea of tropical greenery. All that separates you from the deep black Amazon waters is a canoe hand-carved out of a single tree trunk. As you maneuver around a bend something unidentified crashes off into the underbrush, and you catch a glimpse of two magnificent, colorful macaws startled into flight. Suddenly, the forest erupts with a roar so loud that all you can imagine is some giant, fierce predator on the prowl. But as you turn to face your destiny, the menace is revealed as a family of furry red howler monkeys huddled together in a treetop. With a sigh of relief you continue onward, deeper into the unknown.

A trip to the Amazon Rainforest can bring this dreams to life.  The Amazon Basin covers much of South America the territory includes parts of Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Colombia, Guiana, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, and Suriname.  The largest river basin in the world, the Amazon Basin is also the world's most species rich rainforest.  To begin your adventure you will board a canoe and travel to a virgin rainforest preserve in the headwaters of the Amazon.  Here a comfortable lodge awaits you and will serve as your base for Amazon exploration.

During your stay you will explore the rainforest and its many inhabitants lush green foliage, exotic wildlife and indigenous people many of whom had no knowledge of the outside world until the last century.  You will encounter a dazzling array of wildlife.  Though new two jungle experiences are ever the same, wildlife encounters include playful animals like river otters, pink dolphins and eight different species of monkeys from the tiny half pound pygmy marmoset red howler monkey.   There are birds in all shapes and sizes brightly colored birds like macaws, parrots and toucans as well as 584 other species of birds.  There are pre-historic looking beings like capybaras and tapir as well as the feared predators of Hollywood movies like anaconda and piranha. 

Accompanied by both a bilingual naturalist guide and a local indigenous you will travel through the forest stocking larger mammals like ocelots and jaguars while learning about the medicinal value of plants and the importance of the conservation of this region. The lodges canopy tower offers a tree top view of the rainforest and an excellent way to take up close photos of the wildlife that lives there.

Departing the Amazon you will travel to the Galapagos Islands for a completely different type of wildlife encounter. Unlike the rainforest where you tracked animals, in Galapagos the wildlife is plentiful and everywhere waiting to welcome you to these islands that Charles Darwin made famous. In the Galapagos you?ll see dancing blue footed boobies, frigatebirds with the red balloon like pouches, immense giant tortoises, and the only sea going iguana in the world.

Discover the wildlife of the Amazon Rainforest and the Galapagos Islands and experience the Ultimate Wildlife Adventure.

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