Our final days in Peru: Exploring the Amazon

After spending more than a week traveling around Peru, our final stop of the photo tour was in the Amazon rain forest. At this point we expected very warm weather back down at sea level, but that was not the case. When we landed at the airport, we were greeted with cool weather and light rain. This is very abnormal for the rain forest.

We got to our resort which was really nice, and everyone settled in for the day. It was great to hang out at the edge of the river and watch the small boats go by.

There was a small cayman which hangs out by the dock and if you go down and whistle, you are likely to get it's attention. Some of us went down and made enough noise to see the little guy.

The next day we had our first boat trip on the river. We cruised around and saw some wildlife including these capybara on the shoreline. I was using a combination of the Canon R5 and Canon R6 MKII with the RF 24-105mm lens and RF 100-500mm lens.

We also saw some cool birds from the boat and our room at the resort.

There was a mealy amazon bird which frequented our resort.

On our second day in the Amazon, we took a short boat ride to these amazing hanging bridges. Everyone had a great time walking across these as we looked down on the canopy of the rain forest.

Since the weather was so cold, we did not see a ton of wildlife, but we did see these amazingly colorful birds!

As we walked around, we came across some leaf cutter ants. Even though I have photographed these many times in Costa Rica, I thought it would be fun to capture some Peruvian ants.

After walking across the hanging bridges, we then went on a nice slow boat ride on the river.

We saw some cool birds in the water. This one had just caught a large fish and we had fun photographing it as it swallowed it's meal.

This is a photo of our second boat, with everyone photographing some monkeys in the nearby trees.

We saw some more interesting birds...

...but the best part of the trip was the tranquil boat ride through the Amazon.

Towards the end of our boat ride, we saw a small pack of monkeys in the trees. This one was hanging out on a fallen tree, watching us as we passed by. Even though I have photographed many monkeys in Costa Rica and Africa, it was fun to see a new species.

And raps up the best of our trip to Peru. I can tell you that everyone had an amazing time and I heard people saying that it was the best trip they had ever taken. Some of the guests had no idea what to expect and were blown away by this photo tour.

You can sign up for the 2025 trip HERE. I still have some openings.

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