Enjoy your first encounter with the true Amazonian Wilderness, while you catch sight of the “Delfín I or II”, our casual style but luxuriously, classy and comfortable river vessel, waiting to take you to the rainforest experience of your life. It will become clear that you are traveling where few have gone before. In fact, you will become one of only a handful of seasoned world traveler who has ever visited the remote Pacaya Samiria Reserve, five million acre reserve, really a flooded forest, roughly the size of a Central American country. A world of flora and fauna will meet you in this wonderful experience. Available as on 3, 4 Night expedition voyages.

Upon arrival in Iquitos transfer by bus to the private embarkation port in the city, then in our traditional wooden canoe boats to “Islacocha” our floating VIP lounge and Embarkation Port only 5 minutes away from Iquitos through the shallow water of the Itaya River. Once on Islacocha, you will be checked-in by the friendly staff. Before dusk, while the DELFIN starts its journey into the rainforest, cruising up the Amazon River, enjoy a breath taking Amazonian Sunset view from the comfort of the Observation Deck. In the evening as you relax you will be briefed with the use of charts and short videos displayed on our flat LCD screen, as the guides, conduct a brief orientation, outlining details of your journey, including references of the itinerary, places you will visit, animal wildlife as well as of the historical and geographical background of the Amazon Basin. Enjoy dinner (included in tour price).

Navigating on the mighty and mysterious Amazon River has been an alluring dream for explorers and travelers alike. Discover Earth's greatest wilderness aboard the DELFIN II classic Amazon riverboat, on 3, 4 and 7-Night expedition voyages.

Iquitos is Peru’s largest jungle city. Once a booming rubber town in the late 19th century, tourism and oil are now Iquitos’ main industries. It is a major base for excursions to the Amazon basin and has numerous hotels of varying standards as well as nearby jungle lodges and camps. The river provides excellent opportunities for traveling down the Amazon to Brazil or crossing the river to and from Colombia.

After a delicious breakfast, it will be time to start exploring the very heart of the world. Board the well equipped and comfortable excursion skiffs that will take you to this first adventure. This small tributary of the Amazon is a “black river water” river, while we explore this creek the guides will be showing you all the great variety of wildlife around, variety of birds, the best time of seeing them is when they are more active and singing frequently, during early morning or late afternoon, such as terns, Oreos, blackbirds, black collared hawk, king fisher´s. Arrive at a beautiful lagoon were chances of bird spotting are very good. Enjoy lunch (included in tour price). After lunch we will board our two skiff and take you to the black waters of the Tahuayo River, as we cruise this river, exploring its rich wilderness habitat, we will occasionally see alone the shoreline, small native villages, these are human outpost of the upper Amazon rainforest, we may visit one of them to learn more about the native inhabitant´s wisdom and spirituality to complete our rainforest experience. Dusk is an ideal times for nature observation, so while cruising during the evening introduce us to its musical jungle sounds, our guides will get ready for night sighting, common potoos, nightjars, fishing bats, frogs and other nocturnal wild life will be the main target. You never know what the jungle will let you enjoy this night. Enjoy dinner (included in tour price). Overnight at Delfin II Amazon Cruise.

This morning we will be cruising in our comfortable skiffs to go exploring along the YanaYacu River. Expect to encounter wild Amazonian fauna such as tanagers, parrots, egrets, the unusual horned screamers, wattled jacanas, herons and hummingbirds. Brown throated three toe sloths are one of the species that loves this surrounding forest, restricted to moist lowlands forests or moist riverine forest in the drier areas. Most easily seen in open Cecropia trees along this river, a docile a non aggressive specie active during the day. We will search for squirrel monkeys, whose combination of black snout and white face and ears are unique, they are active during the day in large noisy troops. Arriving at a beautiful lagoons we will have our first fishing activity, Amazonian typical fishing rods, plenty of bait, will help us to get our main target, Piranhas, these small carnivorous fish have fearsome reputation, but locals considered them a good source of food. There will be also a beautiful spot for bathing, so please bring along your bathing suit if you feel hot and dare to have this extraordinary experience. Enjoy lunch (included in tour price). We will be in the formation of the Amazon River; you will be able to see the two powerful tributaries of the Amazon, the Ucayali and the Marañon River. In this spot, and on board the skiffs, we will search for the most elusive and exotic fresh water pink river dolphin, medium sized, long snout and little or no dorsal fin you will see that they are really pink, they love this place, because is one of their favorite feeding spot. You will be able to see both kinds of dolphin in the Amazon basin, the gray dolphins, very much alike the sea ones, but smaller, with a distinctive triangular dorsal fin, will join us too, and while trying to take a picture of them you will enjoy their playful jumps. while all these goes around, we will let you experience one of the most spectacular sunset in your life, with a exotic drink in your hands you will be amazed by the beautiful colors of this important place, with dolphins dancing around you, we will wait until the stars begin to shine, and the darkness of the night will embrace us and all the music of its wild nocturnal life comes alive. Enjoy dinner (included in tour price). Overnight at Delfin II Amazon Cruise.

On board of our skiffs we will stop at Puerto Miguel Native Village to let you have your first hand experience of interaction with local villagers from this remote part of the world. You will have the chance to see their culture, tradition and folklore. Here it will be possible to visit one of the villager’s houses, so you will be able to actually see how they live and the simplicity of their lifestyle, it will be possible also to purchase some of the local handcrafted work they manufacture for self – subsistence. Following the visit, we will start exploring this narrow river to let you experience the abundant and spectacular deep rainforest wilderness including squirrel and capuchin monkeys, herons, egrets. You will have the chance to see green iguanas with prominent head crest and throat fan, extremely long, mostly arboreal and just laying still on a tree branch.
We will arrive at a beautiful lagoon called “Uvos” a very special fruit that grows wild in the shores of this lagoon; you will be surprised also because of the presence of lots of pink dolphins. The primeval forest also boasts abundant flora including a variety of epiphytes as bromeliads’, orchids, untold species of plants and unique trees. Monkeys love these surroundings. Enjoy lunch (included in tour price). After lunch you will board the skiffs and head towards the city of Nauta, were a bus will be waiting for you to take you back to the city of Iquitos. Our ground staff will be waiting for you at this point, the bus will be ready and you will start your way back toward Iquitos, a 92 km trip that will take you 1 hour and a half by a very nice road in non flooded areas. Our personnel will help you do your check in. Following which they will send you off with a fond farewell.

Depart from International Airport. End of itinerary.