LINKS TO AMAZON TRAVEL SITES 
Here are links to web sites of local and international tour operators, and jungle lodges. These will give
you some idea of the travel facilities available in various Amazon countries. Inclusion of a link does
not imply endorsement by Jungle Photos. Legal blurb: Although I believe all the companies here are
reputable and reliable I (Roger Harris) and no associate, relative or derivative (business, trademark or
estate, is responsible for any loss or damage incurred by users of this information. No financial
arrangement exists between me (Roger Harris) and any of the included links. For reliable information
consult The Amazon: The Bradt Travel Guide.
(Second edition: April 2003.) |
Amazon rainforest general travel websites:
• Alinahui Lodge (Ecuador): ecotourism lodge
http://www.ecuadorexplorer.com/alinahui/
Discover the rain forest with Cabanas Alinahui in the Amazon rainforest
of Ecuador. Enjoy comfortable accommodations and exciting ecotours
of primary rainforest while helping to conserve the last rain
forest in the area.
• Ariau Home
http://www.ariauamazontowers.com/
Official Web site of Ariau Amazon Towers Hotel, built at the level
of the rainforest canopy — Ariau affords visitors a close communion
with the region's abundant flora and fauna.
• Chalalan Ecolodge (Bolivia)
http://www.chalalan.com/
Environmentally-friendly facility dedicated to environmental and cultural conservation of the National Park of Madidi.
• Drifting Down the Amazon
http://www.bpe.com/travel/s_america/amazon.htm
Travelogue of adventures in and around Iquitos: "Landing
in Iquitos, the Peruvian port at the upper end of the navigable
Amazon, was like taking a trip backwards on a time machine."
• Inti Travel: Discover Amazonia, Amazon Rainforest, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru
http://www.discoveramazonia.com/
Inti Travel and Tours offers amazon rainforest and jungle tours,
lodges, cruises, treks, and hikes in the Amazon of Brazil, Ecuador
and Peru. (see also Inti Travel)
• Ecotour Expeditions Home
http://www.naturetours.com/
Ecotour Expeditions, the first ecotourism company in the United
States, offers thoughtful and fun trips to spectacular natural
areas in Latin America. The trips are all led by natururalists.
They include river-boat explorations, Amazon river tours on the
cruise vessel Tucano, stays at rainforest lodges, hiking trips,
camping expeditions and trips combining all of these wonderful
activities.
• Enjoy Peru
http://www.enjoyperu.com/
Six thousand pages of general tourism information on Peru and
travel packages.
• Experiential Wilderness Journey (Ecuadorian Amazon)
http://www.experientials.org/
Sentient Experientials presents Wilderness Journeys in the Ecuadorian
Amazon, a first-hand opportunity to meet and learn from authentic
forest peoples, traditional spiritual masters, shamans and activists.
• Explorama Lodges
http://www.explorama.com/
Explorama offers five Lodges in over 250,000 acres of Privately
Protected Primary Amazon Rainforest Reserves. Spectacular Canopy
Walkway, Birdwatchers Paradise, full week & weekend specials.
• Explorations, Inc.
http://www.goexploring.com/
Specialized tour operator offering premier adventures of discovery
into the Peruvian Amazon and Andes since 1992. Educational programs
include river boat cruises and lodge-based Canopy Walkway tours
for independent and small group travelers. In addition to excellent
local naturalist guides, many group departures also escorted by
top USA scholars, including Roger
Harris.
• Extreme Amazon Adventures
http://www.travel.to/adventure.com
Taking you where other tours do not dare to tread, this adventure
travel company offers trips off the tourist-beaten path in Brazil.
• Global Volunteer Network
http://www.volunteer.org.nz/ecuador/
A non profit organisation, places volunteers in community projects. Ecuadorian
program gives volunteers the chance to assist in research stations in the
Amazon.
• Green Tracks
http://www.greentracks.com
Top-notch but affordable tours in the Peruvian Amazon including specialist
herpetology tours led by expert Dr. William Lamar.
• International Expeditions—Rainforests,
Reefs and Savannas
http://www.ietravel.com
International Expeditions specializes in high quality travel programs
to the world's great natural history destinations. Our purpose
is to stimulate an interest in, develop an understanding of, and
create an appreciation for the natural wonders of our Earth.
• Inti Travel Home—The South American Specialists
http://www.intitravel.com/
Inti Travel takes you trekking, mountain climbing, and expeditioning
in some of the most remote regions of the Andes and the Amazon
Basin of Ecuador. Trips to the Galapagos and to the Cuyabeno reserve
in the Amazon give the naturalist unique opportunities to view
diverse wildlife found nowhere else in the world.
• Jacamar Lodge
http://www.jacamarLodge.com/
The Jacamar Amazon Jungle Lodge is an adventure vacation gemstone, hidden in one of
the grandest treasures of flora and fauna in the world. Bordering the Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo
Community Reserve, an 800,000-acre sanctuary boasting over 500 species of birds and
the largest variety of mammals and primates in South America, we offer amazing experiences
for budget-conscious world travelers.
• Ladatco (Brazil: Amazon Clipper)
http://www.ladatco.com/rfd-clipr.htm
Brazilian Amazon Cruise on the Amazon Clipper. This
is a typical two-deck riverboat designed exclusively for cruising
the Amazon river and its tributaries.
• Lake Huachi Eco-Lodge
http://www.lakehuachi.com/
Amazon eco-lodge in Bolivia.
• La Selva Jungle Lodge (Ecuador)
http://www.laselvajunglelodge.com/
A luxury lodge in Ecuador's Amazon Jungle. Winner Ecotourism Award, World Congress on Tourism and the Environment!
• Metropolitan Touring (Ecuador)
http://www.ecuadorable.com/
Amazon travel (e.g. "Flotel Orellana" on the Rio Napo)
plus the Galapagos Islands and Ecuador, with Ecuador's largest
tour operator.
• Outside magazine, January 2001
http://www.outsidemag.com:80/magazine/200101/200101peru1.html
The Teachings of Gerineldo "Moises" Chavez (or The Rainforest
Is a Great Place to Save, But I Wouldn't Want to Live There) Deep
in the seething, fecund Amazon jungle, a seeker finds wisdom,
beauty, exciting new recipes, and inexhaustible armadas of biting
insects. O Sting, where is thy death?
• Peru4U
http://www.peru4u.com
Travel experiences in Peru "where you get a taste of the 3 different types of landscape... It should be a
more or less general impression of culture, infrastructure, people and history."
• PARD Expeditions
http://www.isptr-pard.org
Tour operator and educational organization focused on river dolphin
research and observation. Visitors get to participate in research
activities and learn about the Amazon river dolphin
• Rainforest Ventures
http://www.rainforestventures.com/
Rainforest ventures is an ecotourism company that specializes
in educational tours for teacher and students to the Peruvian
Amazon and other tropical rainforest.
• Tropic Ecological Adventures (Ecuador)
http://www.tropiceco.com/
Tropic Ecological Adventures offers a wide range of different
eco-tours for the traveler wanting an Ecuadorian Adventure to
the Amazon, mountains, or Galapagos.
• Untamed Path
http://www.untamedpath.com/index.html
Untamed Path leads small group active travel adventures to remote
places in South America.
• Visit Leticia
http://www.visitleticia.com
Travel information and bookings to, in and around this typical (and safe) jungle town
in the southeast of Colombia along the Amazon River. (See Leticia photos)
• Wingwise
http://wingwise.com/tambopata.htm
Wonderful blend of words and pictures featuring the macaws of
Tambopata. More a travelogue than a travel service.
More Amazon-related travel links will be added shortly.
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