Heart of Amazonia—Cruising the Rio Negro

Sign on for the most personal, spectacular, professional, Amazon cruise available. Your ship, the Tucano, is a nine-cabin motor yacht with lovely salon and observation deck, private facilities, air-conditioning and delicious food. Mammal sightings will likely include peccaries, river otters, river dolphins, capybara, agouti, and coatimundi; squirrel monkeys, capuchin monkeys and howlers; and, if you're extremely lucky, ocelot. Tropical bird species, too numerous to list, include bananatits, nighthawks, curassows, kites barbets, oropendula, caracara, trogons, parrots and macaws. Your captain, crew and naturalist-guides are committed to preserving the integrity of the eco-system; they continually vary their routes to keep enthusiasm high, and to minimize environmental impact while maximizing wildlife spotting.  This trip is offered twice monthly, year-round.