Hello! I am interested in finding a short 3-day trip on the Amazon from Peru. Does anyone in the forum have experience with this? Bet start points? Best tour company? All tips are appreciated.
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Though I've visited Peru many times, I hate humid heat, and so I've avoided the Amazon region altogether. However, perhaps I can offer a few tips that may help you get responses from those who have travelled there.
First, there are two major parts of the vast Peruvian Amazon rain-forest region that tourists usually visit: the area around Iquitos in the northeast, which is literally on the Amazon river; and the area around Puerto Maldonado, much farther south, which is in the Amazon rain-forest zone but not right on the Amazon river. Have you decided yet on one or the other, or would either do?
Second, you may want to state when you're going. If someone who is intimately familiar with the Peruvian Amazon sees your note a month from now, will it still be worth their time to respond?
Third, you may want to clarify what you meant by a "trip on the Amazon from Peru." I'll assume you meant "in Peru," but if you're really thinking about starting in Peru, and ending up in another country, readers will need to know -- and anyway, three days may not be enough for that.
Also, you may want to consider posting on the TripAdvisor forum, if you haven't yet done so. True, this is the "Beyond Europe" forum branch -- and Iquitos and Puerto Maldonado are way, way beyond Europe -- but Europe-bound tourists are, I suspect, the ones who are likely to get onto the Rick Steves site in the first place. Amazon experts may not even consider it worth their time to bother with this site. And finally, there is probably no consensus on a "best" tour company, though with luck you'll get recommendations for some good ones. And whether either is the "best" starting point, Iquitos and Puerto Maldonado are, as I've said, the most feasible ones.
(This response has been rather long, so I'll just briefly mention two other possible destinations, the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, and the Manu National Park, though I don't think that either is suited to quick three-day trips.)