Lodge Expeditions and Stays in the Pacaya Samiria Reserve

We welcome you at Iquitos airport and, on the way to Nauta, visit the Amazon Rescue Center (CREA), where you learn about its work rehabilitating Amazonian manatees. In Nauta, you board a boat to travel along the Marañón River to the lodge, inside the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve. Then, in the evening, you head out by boat to spot caimans and listen to the rainforest.

At dawn, we navigate the reserve’s rivers to watch birds, monkeys and pink and gray river dolphins. Then we explore blackwater lagoons where the reflection of the forest creates unique landscapes. In the afternoon, you learn to fish for piranhas using traditional techniques and, later, at nightfall you go on a night walk in search of frogs, insects and other animals.

We take a rainforest walk, or a canoe ride through the flooded forest depending on the season, to discover giant trees, medicinal plants and wildlife. Later, in the afternoon, we visit a Kukama community to learn about their way of life, traditions and relationship with the river.

After breakfast, we navigate back to Nauta and then continue by road to Iquitos. Depending on your flight schedule, we visit a Yagua community near Iquitos to learn about their dances, traditional dress and handicrafts before the transfer to the airport.