Amazon Travel Adventures

The Peruvian rainforest offers a unique opportunity to experience one of the world's last outposts of unbelievable unspoiled natural beauty

Choose from one of the following Amazonian Adventures 
The following are samples of packages of Amazon rainforest, which can be combined with "The Best of Peru" program or any other Peru itinerary you may wish to put together. Please contact us for quotations and/or programs in the Amazon region.

The Amazon Tropical Rain Forest Jungle

    Peru's rain forest zone is large than the seven countries of Central America combined nearly sixty percent of the countries landmass. Over ninety percent of Peru's total biomass resides in its tropical rain forest's. Average altitude of the Amazon's highland forest range from sixteen hundred to ninety two hundred feet. Its lowland rainforests range between two hundred and fifty and thirteen hundred feet. Combined they harbor more than thirty different life zones and sixty one percent of the most fragile life forms. 
    Among the more than one thousand independent rivers in more than a dozen separate eco-systems two predominate as and the longest, the Maronon over one thousand miles long and the Ucayali in excess of twelve hundred miles. Both flow north and east to form at there confluence, the  Amazon more than a hundred miles west of Iquitos. 
   Actual birth places or first trickle of mountain water flowing east is though to be high in the Andes at nearly eighteen thousand feet. Run off from glaciers, packed snow and precipitation form the early source of what becomes the Apurimac. The first drop is called, "life water" or "life's water" by several cultures and serves t reflect the importance they placed on water for the sustenance of life even though they may not have shared the knowledge of the Amazon's origin.
    Power of water, especially its retention was highly priced by the highland cultures because rainfall averaged twenty inches annually in the Pun and highland valley zones. 

 Biological Overview and attractions

  To understand Peru's biological landscape its important to reflect on numbers. They help build perceptions, refine the scope of discussion to formulate comparisons and provide foundations to make some judgments.
   Peru has nine percent of all known species of animals which may impress some  but relaying the fact that the nine percent encompasses three thousand seven hundred and eighty different animal species begins to bring home the importance of numbers. 
Within its borders, Peru contains eighty-for percent of the earth's classified life zones. An important factor in understanding the term being batted about in environmental sciences and more recently tourism,  biodiversity. Biodiversity habitats often epitomize species rich biomes. Within those life-zones are harbored, seventeen hundred and two species of resident and migratory birds or about eighteen percent of the words number: eighteen hundred and fifty one classified orchid species with over thirteen hundred species waiting classification; three hundred and sixty five species of reptiles, over two hundred and forty species of amphibians, four thousand butterflies, twenty thousand moths, two thousand different fish, and over seventeen thousand higher plants. 
     To gain more perspective on biodiversity reflect on the biological wealth of one protected reserve with Peru's  Amazon rain forest zone, Manu National Park.
    This single park contains over one thousand species of birds, including thirty two species of parrots, over five thousand species of flowering plants thirteen species of monkeys including the worlds smallest primate, the Pygmy marmoset, over five hundred species of butterflies and eight hundred moth, with outstanding species such as the spectacled bear, jaguar, river otters and tapir. The numbers are not even as great as the diversity shared with this common border. 
    Peru's hub's of biodiversity within the Amazon region surpass those of any country in the hemisphere, perhaps even the world according to acclaimed tropical experts. Placing that statement into perspective is a delicate task but crucial to focusing on regions with the greatest biological wealth.  The opportunity to enrich one's self with a "dramatic biological experience" in terms of rarity increases in relation to the level of biodiversity in a specific environment. The more biodiversity, the more opportunities arise to observe species restricted to these limited environments. 
   However as biodiversity regions become more stressed due to encroachment or habitat destruction we my find more emphasis being placed on biomass, large numbers such as teeming life cycles of Peru's Pacific coast, rather than fragile biomes of  the Amazon.     Sustainable tourism policy will have to steer future promotions and most probably even regulate fragile systems. 
    Peru has nineteen environmentally rich zones where biodiversity is considered very high. Three have taken on international prominence because of past references in land mark publications such as Wilson's " Biodiversity" relating to Tambopata, national Geographic's and current coverage of these regions by other major publications and world wide electronic media corporations. 
    Tambopata-Candamo National Park Reserve, Manu National Park, and Pacaya-Simiria National Reserve present formidable oasis's of protection from encroachment within the protected lands and outsiders but combined they represent less than two percent of Per's rainforest zone. 
    Their importance to future generations will be the representative biodiversity they possess today and with this in mind the government of Peru has recently passed national legislation to protect areas such as Manu, Tambopata and Pacaya-Simiria under a new "sustainable tourism" policy.