Cruise Port Guide
The bucket-list things to do — and the private, expert-led way to do each.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, and the private, small-group, or expert-led way to make it yours — your own pace, real access, none of the crowd.
Glide silently through the Amazon's flooded igapó forest by kayak and private skiff, searching for pink river dolphins, sloths, and caimans in their true habitat. A once-in-a-lifetime encounter with the world's greatest biodiversity.
Board a private skiff with Delfín's expert Amazon naturalist for an intimate exploration of hidden black-water lakes and remote macaw clay licks deep in the Pacaya-Samiria reserve. Pure, unfiltered Amazonia at its most spectacular.
Spend a full day in the Amazon basin with a federally credentialed local expert, weaving between pristine rainforest trails, a working shaman's garden, and an authentic riverside community. The definitive human and natural story of the Amazon.
Witness one of the world's most stunning natural phenomena — where the dark Rio Negro and the sandy-brown Solimões River flow side by side for miles without mixing — aboard a private chartered boat from Manaus.
Step inside the Amazon's most extraordinary architectural marvel — the opulent Teatro Amazonas opera house, built at the height of the rubber boom — with a private expert guide who unlocks the gilded secrets of its gilded interior.
Join a National Geographic expert-led small-group expedition into the upper Amazon, combining guided jungle treks, skiff wildlife excursions, and ethnobotanical village encounters for the most intellectually rich Amazon experience available.
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