Ceiba Tops Lodge

Reception at the airport, brief city orientation, and transfer to the dock. Twenty-five-mile journey down the Amazon River to Tops where private rooms with air conditioning provide Amazon adventure in comfort. Afternoon hike in the beautiful primary rainforest reserve surrounding Ceiba Tops, including many huge trees festooned with epiphytes. After dinner, your guide will take you on a short walk to a small lake where caiman can be spotted at night and you can find some of the insects and frogs that produce a cacophony of sounds after dark.

Accommodation: Ceiba Tops Lodge
Meals included: Box lunch, dinner

Board a boat to visit a Yagua indigenous community where your guide will explain the Yagua culture and how it has been affected by the passing of time. There will be an opportunity to trade for or purchase some of their local crafts and a demonstration of the use of the blowgun which some of the Yagua elders still use for hunting. Afternoon boating excursion along the Amazon in search of either of the two species of freshwater dolphin, pink and gray, found in the river. There will also be an opportunity for fishing to see some of the incredible diversity of fish in the Amazon River, including piranha, where more species exist than in the entire Atlantic Ocean.

Accommodation: Ceiba Tops Lodge
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Speedboat to travel along the Amazon and Napo Rivers to Napo Rainforest Reserve and explore Napo Lodge. Neighboring ExplorNapo is the Maijuna Indigenous community of Sucusari. The Maijuna land reserve encompasses over 390,000 hectares of rainforest spread between 4 Maijuna communities that oversee its conservation. One of the Maijuna elders will lead us through their ancestral forest on a walk to the Canopy Walkway. The guide will share some of their stories
and talk about the uses of the plants we will see along the way. The Canopy Walkway is a suspended bridge spanning over 500 meters (one-third of a mile), connected by tree platforms, and reaching a height of over 35 meters (115 feet) above the ground. Here there is time to observe a part of the rainforest rarely seen by man but accessible without any type of climbing skill or equipment, an adventure for all ages. After lunch, learn about plants at the Ethnobotanical Garden where over 240 species of medicinal and useful plants are tended by a shaman and his assistants.

Accommodation: Ceiba Tops Lodge
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Morning walking excursion to a lake where huge Victoria Regia lily pads can span up to 3 meters across. On the underside of the pads, there are sharp spines that protect it from the fish below. At the lake, you can often see Wattled Jacana, birds with long toes that allow them to walk across the lily pads. You will also be able to see some of the
turtles that are hatched at the lake each year as part of a repopulation project. Later, transfer back to Iquitos.

Meals included: Breakfast