Expedition Cruises to the Amazon

FLOODED FORESTS AND BLACKWATER TRIBUTARIES

The Amazon here is wide, slow and winding, with large areas of seasonally flooded igap forest flooded by blackwater tributaries and vrzea forest with sediments from the Andes carrying floating vegetation and vital nutrients to support an amazing diversity of plant and animal life along the river and floodplains. This region is almost like a seacoast, best explored by Zodiac. People here utilize the forest's natural products and engage in agricultural and extractive activities in a place rarely seen by the outside world. Exploring this incredible environment with your Expedition Team will immerse you in it and help you understand and appreciate it.

THE FRONTIER AMAZON

The banks are closer here and the currents stronger. Our ship passes closer to the forest and we see less frequent evidence of human population. In this more intimate relation to the forest, we will again use the Zodiacs to probe the shorelines and gain insights from your Expedition Team about the daily activities of the humans and the wildlife living here. The river itself forms the triple borders of Brazil, Colombia and Peru. Isolated, traditional caboclo communities see few visitors. Picturesque, friendly Leticia is a frontier town, hundreds of miles from the nearest Colombian road. The stilt and floating houses along its waterfront reveal how closely its peoples' lives are linked to the river.

THE PERUVIAN AMAZON

The Peruvian Amazon is enveloped in an ocean of jungle where the seasons are marked only by the changing river levels and the amount of rainfall during the days. Here we will encounter indigenous populations more commonly along the banks of the river, and discover age-old human traditions surviving unaltered by the outside world. Many unexpected, unforgettable adventures await us as we board our Zodiacs to explore some of the most remote regions and exotic cultures of the mighty Amazon. Iquitos is a fascinating place. In the midst of the jungle, we find a major seaport nearly 2,000 miles from the sea, the largest city on earth that cannot be reached by road.
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14-Night Wild Guianas to the Amazon Basin Seabourn VentureOct 7, 2024$10,999$300
14-Night Amazon Delta & Coast Of Brazil Seabourn VentureOct 21, 2024$7,999$300
9-Night Heart of the Amazon Seabourn VentureOct 12, 2025 & Oct 21, 2025$8,999$500
12-Night Amazon Delta & Coast Of Brazil Seabourn VentureOct 30, 2025$6,599$500
24-Night Atlantic to the Amazon BasinSeabourn VentureSep 27, 2024$14,889
28-Night Wild Guianas, Amazon & Coast Of BrazilSeabourn VentureOct 7, 2024$17,099
35-Night From the Amazon to the AntarcticSeabourn VentureOct 21, 2024$28,999
28-Night Grand Journey to Amazonia & Tropical IslesExplora INov 15, 2024$16,100
14-Night Caribbean Dreams & Amazonian AdventuresExplora INov 22, 2024$8,800
7-Night Wild & Wonderful AmazoniaExplora INov 22, 2024$4,650
7-Night Meeting Waters on the Almighty AmazonExplora INov 29, 2024$4,650
21-Night Amazon Experience & Coast Of BrazilSeabourn VentureOct 12, 2025$13,499
40-Night From the Amazon To South Georgia & The Antarct...Seabourn VentureOct 30, 2025$27,299
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