The M/V Spondias Riverboat is a Luxury Cruise Boat with very few people aboard. This small boutique riverboat carries eight passengers in four luxury cabins, creating an intimate and highly personalized Amazon experience on your Peru vacation package. While on board, you can relax in your king-sized bed while watching the river pass by, and enjoy gourmet meals and drinks from the minibar. As we venture further into the Amazon jungle, we can use our private river skiffs and kayaks to explore the tributaries of the Amazon, as your expert jungle guides point out all of the amazing flora and fauna that you’ll see during your four-day Amazon cruise.
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Your Amazon adventure begins when we meet you in Iquitos. We’ll then head by private car to the port town of Nauta, where we’ll board the M/V Spondias. After a welcome drink, our crew will show you your cabin and all of the various facilities on board, and your expert, bilingual jungle guide will give you a rundown of the program for the next four days.
Then we begin our journey, upstream along the Marañon River. Keep your eyes peeled for the different animals that you may see along the way!
In the evening we will gather for our first gourmet dinner aboard, which will certainly get you excited for all the meals to come next on your Peru Amazon adventures.
We’ll wake early in the morning to see the Amazon as it comes to life, while looking for a pretty spot to enjoy a picnic breakfast. Then we’ll head out on a fishing trip – but this is no ordinary angling! We’ll be fishing for one of the Amazon’s most notorious residents, the piranha! Piranhas aren't too picky about what they eat, so drawing them to the bait isn’t too hard – but getting them out of the water is not so easy, as they certainly don’t appreciate being on the end of a line. While we’re fishing, there’s a good chance that we’ll see grey and pink river dolphins.
We’ll return to the Spondias for lunch and afterwards, we’ll head out in our kayaks into the National Reserve to explore a wonderful jungle creek. Here we’ll see many colorful species of birds, huge trees, monkeys, and local river people as they head out in their own wooden canoes and small boats. As you paddle, this is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself directly in the rainforest!
We’ll explore the reserve until the sun sets, and then continue in the boats to see the jungle at night. After dark, the rainforest presents a whole different experience, with a cacophony of strange calls and howls and shrieks. We’ll be on the lookout for bats, night birds, frogs, caimans, poison frogs, and a vast number of other nocturnal species. Using our flashlights, we’ll try to catch the telltale red reflection in the eyes of caiman as they sit on the riverbank or swim with their heads just above the water.
We’ll have another tasty breakfast as we navigate to a very special spot I The Amazon Rainforest. The confluence of the Marañon and Ucayali rivers is generally considered to be the start of the Amazon River. On the way, we will hopefully see more grey and pink river dolphins.
As we continue to navigate, your expert jungle guide will give a fascinating presentation about the Amazon, including its indigenous tribes, modern-day exploration, the culture of the region, and the abundance of flora and fauna.
This afternoon you will pack your things up as we explore this interesting region by motorized skiff. In the waters of this important tributary, you will see the many wonders of the rainforest. Keep an eye out for monkeys, sloths, and a variety of birds while you are exploring the tropical jungle.
Tonight you will have the nighttime experience of The Amazon with a casual night walk and direct contact with the jungle. You will hear the symphony during the jungle walk as we look for nocturnal species, such as poison frogs, insects, bats, and many other species of the jungle.
Dinner will be served out in the rainforest as a picnic to have a unique natural type of natural background "music".
Sadly, today is our final day in The Amazon rainforest. We will sail back towards the port in Nauta, and after breakfast aboard, it will be time to disembark. We’ll then take you back to Iquitos, where we’ll drop you off at the airport or at your hotel, after your M/V Spondias River Boat Journey through the Amazon Jungle.
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Valencia Travel was amazing to work with, and I would highly recommend them for any new travelers. Special thanks again to Andes (guide) , Maria (agent/coordinator) , and Washington (driver) . Thank you for making this a trip to remember for a lifetime.
Valencia Travel was amazing to work with, and I would highly recommend them for any new travelers. Special thanks again to Andes (guide) , Maria (agent/coordinator) , and Washington (driver) . Thank you for making this a trip to remember for a lifetime.
We truly had an incredle experience from booking with Maria, to meeting Miguel upon arrival at the airport, and of course trekking with our incredible guide Aldo and the amazing porters who helped make trekking much more comfortable and luxurious than we're used to. We couldn't believe the 3 course meals they cooked up. Truly blew us away.
The trek itself is incredible as you're able to see so many Inca sites along the way before arriving to Macchupicchu. The mountain range was beautiful.
Aldo our guide was the best! He was very information and taught us so much about the incas and knew so much about all the trees, wildlife, and fauna we saw along the trek. He's been guiding for many years and thanks to his experience and forethought we managed to catch amazing views away from the other groups of trekkers and were the first to arrive to Macchupicchu making for an even more private experience. I highly recommend Aldo!
Valencia travel is a local company that supports all the locals they employ. I highly recommend them for any bookings!
**tip: definitely give yourself 3 days in Cusco before hiking in order to acclimate to the altitude. We saw a couple turn around due to issues with altitude.
We truly had an incredle experience from booking with Maria, to meeting Miguel upon arrival at the airport, and of course trekking with our incredible guide Aldo and the amazing porters who helped make trekking much more comfortable and luxurious than we're used to. We couldn't believe the 3 course meals they cooked up. Truly blew us away.
The trek itself is incredible as you're able to see so many Inca sites along the way before arriving to Macchupicchu. The mountain range was beautiful.
Aldo our guide was the best! He was very information and taught us so much about the incas and knew so much about all the trees, wildlife, and fauna we saw along the trek. He's been guiding for many years and thanks to his experience and forethought we managed to catch amazing views away from the other groups of trekkers and were the first to arrive to Macchupicchu making for an even more private experience. I highly recommend Aldo!
Valencia travel is a local company that supports all the locals they employ. I highly recommend them for any bookings!
**tip: definitely give yourself 3 days in Cusco before hiking in order to acclimate to the altitude. We saw a couple turn around due to issues with altitude.
The Porters and Chef Filex were exceptional and went above and beyond with all our needs.
I was surprised with a Birthday Cake on our hike, and I had no idea someone could make and decorate a cake in a tent.
It was incredibly mind-blowing.
I highly recommend them to anyone looking to do the Inca Trail.
We are extremely pleased with the service we received.
I give them A++++++
Un’altro aspetto importante è stata la guida per Macchu Picchu, Washington! Super appassionato del posto e della storia, vi coninvolgerà con i suoi racconti e le sue spiegazioni. E’ davvero una guida molto esperta e professionale!
Thank you for such a brilliant trek!
Our chef, Gregorio, "Goyo", had the best food of all of our Peru!! the culinary expertise of this guy whom planned a menu according to our hike plan, carbs and proteins, and we had plenty.. .I mean plenty to eat. The porters (all 10), with leads from Climico, and special mention to Fortunato who would met us at the end of the trail to help carry our personal packs to our porters applauding our days hard accomplishment. Along the entire trail, Wilbur encouraging the porter of other competitors as his "little brother" to continue to be strong as they quickly passed us on the trail. My respect to the team of Valencia Travel, the porters, head chef and his assistant and mostly to Wilbur for delivering an experience that I encourage anyone to participate in. Thank you Wilbur. we the 7 women from California, USA will forever be your "Flowers".
There were some challenges communicating with the office staff with some questions we had before the trek and booking it, though once we had our meeting with Guillermo it was all sorted out.
After a lot of research, Valencia Travel appeared as the most qualitative and professional agency organizing the excursions we wanted to take part in. We signed in for day trip to the rainbow mountain and had an amazing experience. The guide spoke English and shared a lot of interesting facts with us, the food was delicious and the general activity was perfectly organisez.
Thanks to this very positive experience, we decided to do the 4 days Lares Trail to Machu Picchu with Valencia Travel. Waouw. We spent the 4 days talking about how impressed we were about the professionalism of the agency. The trek was wonderful, the nature breathtaking but the most impressive part was the service, the kindness of the staff, their organisation,… Everything is in the details, the camp are very confortable, they even bring you tea in your tent to wake you up in the morning!
The food was beyond expectations. At every meal, we had a salad, a soup, a main dish and once we even had a cake that they baked in the tents! Being vegan, we are always a bit scared that it could be a problem for trekkings, but with Valencia it is not at all! We had some of the best foods of our trip during our trekking!
I am so happy that we did the Lares trekking with Valencia as there is no better way to reach the sacred site of Machu Picchu than by doing a trekking in the nature. It is a very special place and trekking to reach it definitely add some magic to the experience!
To conclude, I would highly recommend Valencia for any activities in Peru, it will make your experience unforgettable!!
At 55 and with a helpful dose of camaraderie from my younger trek-mates, including my 16 year-old niece who managed the ascents and descents with aplomb, I felt a sense of accomplishment in completing the trek, which is more vertical than horizontal and ranges from about 9,000 to 12,000 feet over three days. Hiking the trail does require above-average fitness for the middle-aged. No unmanageable parts but a walking stick, reliable shoes, dependable leg muscles and accommodating joints, a relatively light backpack of essentials, and stops along the way to gulp down the thin air, take in the jaw-dropping vistas, pause for passing porters, and make way for grazing llamas—all are required to push through. So is a large reserve of self-deprecation. Alex and other minders were more than indulgent while keeping us all on the move.
Reaching Machu Picchu at the end was paradoxically awe-inspiring and anti-climatic given the splendor of the journey to get there. At the end of it, getting on the train that deposits and returns the vast majority of visitors in the space of a day, I simply couldn’t imagine seeing Machu Picchu without doing the trek.
If you are hiking the Inca Trail I highly recommend to go through Valencia Travel. Ask to have Elistan as your guide. The porters are treated very well. They have good hiking shoes, and attire to wear. (though if they could get backpacks that include waist straps I think that would be great!). Ask for Luis to be your cook. I have never eaten so well on a vacation. Luis is amazing at what he can cook up on the trail, we are talking three course meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and the food is presented as if it was at a 5 star hotel. Incredible!!!
My only other desire is if Valencia offered a Recipe Book of the meals eaten on the trail. I would totally purchase such a piece of "gold".
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