In the morning we’ll take a boat ride to the small indigenous community of the Yagua. Here, your guide will tell you all about the culture of the Yagua people, and how they were affected by the arrival of Europeans and the passing of time. You’ll also see the local crafts, and have a demonstration of the blowgun that some of the Yagua elders still use for hunting – you can have a go yourself, too!  

In the afternoon we’ll head out onto the Ama...

Leaving Ceiba Tops at sunrise, we’ll travel by speedboat along the Amazon and Napo Rivers to the Amazon Rainforest Reserve and the ExplorNapo Lodge, where you will arrive just in time for breakfast. After breakfast, we’ll have a 45-minute hike in pristine forest until we reach the wonderful Canopy Walkway. The walkway is a suspended bridge spanning over 500 meters (one-third of a mile), connected by platforms in the trees and reaching a height of more than 35 meters (115 f...

We’ll start Day 4 with an early morning bird watching excursion, seeing many of the colorful tropical birds that live in the Amazon. We’ll head back for breakfast and then take to the river again to visit the rustic Explorama Lodge. From here we can hike the Bushmaster Trail, where scientific studies by the Missouri Botanical Gardens have found the world's highest biodiversity of trees per square hectare.  

Afterwards we’ll visit the small indigenou...

On the morning of our final day we’ll take the boats to a rural village where all of the houses are built on stilts. This traditional practice allows homes built by the river to cope with the seasonal rising of the waters. Here, we’ll meet farmers and fisherman who live day-to-day on the resources they harvest from the surrounding rivers and rainforest. This will be a great cultural experience, as families in river communities love to invite visitors into their homes. And ...