About the Amazon

The Amazon River flows through South America, providing essential hydration to plants, animals, and people as it courses from the Andes mountains to the Atlantic. Thousands of species of fish…

The Pacaya Samiria National Reserve (RNPS) is the second largest natural protected area in Peru and is one of the best places for nature tourism lovers, as it has more…

Can you imagine a single country capable of holding more species of birds than can be found throughout North America and Europe together? A territory that possesses 1,831 different species?…

We hear the island before we see it. Raindrops pelt my face like bullets as we zip across the Amazon Basin in a motorised skiff towards the primate sanctuary known…

Antonio Donato Nobre researches the “ingenious systems” of the Amazon. His work illustrates the beautiful complexity of this region, as well as its fragility against a backdrop of climate change.…

[caption id="attachment_882" align="alignnone" width="660"] photo by Pruit Phatsrivong, Shutterstock[/caption] Most of us are familiar with the fun and playful blue bottlenose dolphin named Flipper, made famous by Hollywood productions, but…

Looking for something different to accompany your Peru Amazon cruise? Spend some time in the remote jungle city of Iquitos! On embarkation day with Delfin, we recommend arriving by flight…

All macaws are parrots, but not all parrots are macaws. As a group, parrots are unique: all have short, hooked bills, flexible tongues, and grasping four-toed feet which they often…

Wow! Today we were all in the bus on our way to Nauta, and the guides were explaining all about the “terra firme” we were passing by. It was already…

It has been a blue and yellow macaw day! It's amazing how many macaws we have seen today. It is not always like this. Sometimes we see a pair or two,…