ktmrider
Well-known
So, has anyone here taken a boat up the Amazon? Am thinking it might be my next trip to South America and starting to search for information.
Thanks.
Thanks.
x-ray
Veteran
No but I buy things from them and own some stock.kxl
Social Documentary
I had included it in my itinerary for a visit to Peru about 6 years ago, but unfortunately I had to cancel the trip. IIRC, it included a boat ride and a couple of nights stay in their sef-sustained lodge deep within the Amazon. I can probably dig up the name of the outfitter if you are interested in the Peruvian Amazon. Can't help you with other entry points into the Amazon.
rfaspen
[insert pithy phrase here]
I hear its pretty humid there
cz23
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I covered much of Peru a few years ago and my favorite place was Iquitos, up in the Amazon basin in the northeast corner. Because of the way the water changes constantly, Iquitos, although a large city, is accessible only by boat or plane. We only spent an afternoon on the river but wished for more.
I expect you are considering something more extended. I can't help with travel details, but it sounds like a wonderful experience. The cultures that arise around great rivers are always fascinating, and I'm sure those along the Amazon are particularly remarkable.
John
I expect you are considering something more extended. I can't help with travel details, but it sounds like a wonderful experience. The cultures that arise around great rivers are always fascinating, and I'm sure those along the Amazon are particularly remarkable.
John
CMur12
Veteran
I lived on the tri-border area. between Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, of the Upper Amazon region, between 1975 and 1977.
It is approximately 2000 miles/3000 kilometers from Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon, to the border with Colombia. I probably traveled around 8000 miles on the river during my time there, on passenger boats of different sizes, small merchant boats, and in a motorized canoe.
The mother river is the Solimões in Portuguese and the Marañón in Spanish. The Rio Negro and the Solimões flow together at Manaus, there becoming the Amazon River.
I took a larger boat from Belém to Manaus. I was on a large open deck where passengers strung up hammocks. An upper deck had staterooms, though I don't think most persons our age would consider them luxurious. I'll hazard the guess that they have a nicer boat for this part of the river today.
The Amazon River is huge! There were parts of it where the river almost met the horizon on both sides, save for a tiny fringe of green. At other parts, it was broken up into channels between islands.
Travel in my day, from Manaus to the upper border, was on smaller boats designed for passengers with hammocks only. These boats took 8 days to travel from the border to Manaus and 12 days to go from Manaus upriver to the border.
This has probably all changed over the ensuing years, but it would be fun to return to my old stomping grounds and see how it is there now.
- Murray
It is approximately 2000 miles/3000 kilometers from Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon, to the border with Colombia. I probably traveled around 8000 miles on the river during my time there, on passenger boats of different sizes, small merchant boats, and in a motorized canoe.
The mother river is the Solimões in Portuguese and the Marañón in Spanish. The Rio Negro and the Solimões flow together at Manaus, there becoming the Amazon River.
I took a larger boat from Belém to Manaus. I was on a large open deck where passengers strung up hammocks. An upper deck had staterooms, though I don't think most persons our age would consider them luxurious. I'll hazard the guess that they have a nicer boat for this part of the river today.
The Amazon River is huge! There were parts of it where the river almost met the horizon on both sides, save for a tiny fringe of green. At other parts, it was broken up into channels between islands.
Travel in my day, from Manaus to the upper border, was on smaller boats designed for passengers with hammocks only. These boats took 8 days to travel from the border to Manaus and 12 days to go from Manaus upriver to the border.
This has probably all changed over the ensuing years, but it would be fun to return to my old stomping grounds and see how it is there now.
- Murray