Amazon Rainforest Trekking and Walking Holidays
Walking through the Amazon rainforest is an adventure that bathes all your senses. Dappled light and rich, earthy smells mix with looping bird calls and the distant rustle of animals moving through the canopy.
You’ll follow your local guides along narrow trails beneath towering trees whose vast branches sough in the breeze. Don’t be surprised if your guide stops suddenly after spotting wildlife hidden up ahead, or explains a medicinal plant, bringing this ancient forest to life.
However, the Amazon rainforest’s wildlife is shy. That’s why walking is one of the best ways for you to get close to its fantastic flora and fauna.
Amazon Trekking is Like Nowhere Else
Rainforest hiking’s rewards are found in the details that serendipity brings to your path. Looks for colourful frogs, the fleeting movement of monkeys overhead, or leaf-cutter ants too busy to pay heed.
Most Amazon trails follow low-lying forest floors. Many rainforest lodges offering 2-3-hour early-morning or twilight loops into remote wilderness and tropical vegetation. Some routes climb small hills, cross streams or pass through uneven forest.
Conditions can be hot and humid, but you’ll enjoy frequent stops to observe wildlife, examine plants, or listen to the forest, and to take on water. Night hikes lead you into a different world—the forest comes alive with frogs, insects, spiders, and other nocturnal creatures.
In addition, many rainforest lodges combine walking with canoe excursions, birdwatching, and observation towers, high in the canopy.
