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It’s hard to imagine life becoming routine on a riverboat in the Amazon, but by now we had settled into a pretty wonderful one. I’d get up early, have a cup of coffee on the open-air deck, and talk with the other early risers while we watched the river. Sometimes a dolphin would surface. Sometimes

By our fifth day on the Amazon, we’d settled into a comfortable rhythm aboard the Delfin II. Early mornings, incredible wildlife, great food, an afternoon recharge, and another adventure before sunset. It wasn’t getting repetitive—it was becoming wonderfully familiar. After breakfast, we climbed into the skiffs for an excursion through Belluda Creek. The morning turned

Our day started before breakfast with an early morning skiff ride. Since we had spent most of our time upstream from the main Amazon, this excursion was all about catching the sunrise and reaching the confluence of the Ucayali and Marañón Rivers. Located east of Iquitos, Peru, the meeting of these two massive rivers marks

Morning Boat RideWe woke up on the Amazon to a river full of floating tree debris — flooding season was in full swing, which explained why the Delphin tucked in each night on islands or out of the main flow. Renzo pointed out the amount of logging along the river; like the Pacific Northwest, the

First morning on the River was calm and beautiful. Guillermo explained that the river was nearly 30 feet above its normal level, officially in flood stage. It felt vast—less like a river and more like an inland sea. Entire sections of forest stood half-submerged, tree trunks disappearing into the dark, tannin-rich water mostly brown from

We woke up once again at the Wyndham Costa del Sol, grabbed breakfast, and started to see who would be joining us on our next adventure—deep into the Amazon. Our Natural Habitat handler was already there with our LATAM tickets to Iquitos, and we were happy to find ourselves seated in the LATAM equivalent of