Harpia Eagle

In the amazon travel the tourists are surprised by the large number of birds upon the trees and flying in the sky in this region, the weather and the affluents help to the emergence of wild life moreover it becomes in the best choice of habitat of too many animals.

Also the place that allows amazon bird watching, not only for variety but because some species are unique in the Amazons, even most of them hold the title of the biggest in America and the planet.

It is the case of the Harpia Eagle that is consider the biggest bird in the world within other cualities also it is the most predatory thanks to its claws, in the amazon jungle tour the visitors can find the harpy eagle in the region of the Orinoco and the Amazon

The Harpia Eagle reach a size of 110cms and a weight of 9kg, it live in the humid forest of South america, its feeding is made up of mammalians that generally are arboreal like sloth or monkeys, in the amazon tourism you can see its great size and proportion.

Wood carving

Wood carving still one of the local practices that natives use to build cabains, and you as a tourist will discover that in the Amazon Travel, when you get to stay in the Reserva Amazon Heliconia.

All of our buildings are made of wood, from the bed to the ornaments, in order to create a quiet, rustic and local environment so you can get good rest in the amazon jungle tour.

Also, the indigenous have used wood to make canoes and utensils, in this way it has been transmited from generation to generation the amazon fishing tour.

A lot of animal shapes have been wood carved, and you will find them in the Amazon jungle tour; these objects are representative of the region and used to worship gods or as decoration elements.

Summer vacation in the Amazon

Begin know, plan a amazon jungle tour for the vacation season, in this place you will enjoy a broad and exotic vegetation, from the natives and its manners, or from local recreative activities.

Your stay will be unforgeteable, because in the amazon excursion you will lodge in the Kurupiras that are the new alternatives offered for resting; this structures are floating cabains that work as a room or restaurant according to the case.

Between the native activities you can do are the amazon bird watching, dolphins or fishing, and for your tranquility on any walk around you will be accopained by a local guide.

Doing the ecotourism through the Amazonas, you will get in contact with the species in danger of extinction that are fighting to survive hunting, deforestation and weather changes.

Sloth

The objective of Amazon Ecotourism is to identify the species that are in danger or defenseless against human actions and deforestation of the forest of the areas in which they live.

The sloth is an herbivorous animal that dedicates itself to arboreal locomotion, meaning, climbing trees and hold its branches, they are dumb on the floor because they’ve lost their capacity to handle it, when you get to do the Amazon jungle tour you will see that the male is solitaire while the female walk around in herd.

They live in the rainforest region of South America, there are two known types of sloth families that you will see in the Amazon Vacation: the two finger sloth and the three finger sloth, they both have strong, long nails in a sickle shape that helps them stick to the trees.

They get to 75cms and a total weight of 5,5k, the great collaboration that this animal does to the region is the biomass to the rainforest, giving back to the floor nutrients when he defecates, from there, the importance of knowing the characteristics of each specie when you do the Amazon tourism.

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Heliconia

Heliconia Amazon Reserve is named after the family of heliconias, herbaceous plants, exotic wildlife found in the region of Central America and South America, in the Amazon tourism travelers can see variety of Heliconia.

Those plants have different primary colors and have irregular shapes, heliconias are currently export, but tourists can identify them on the trip to the Amazon travel.

The heliconias are tropical plants because they need to develop, moisture and heat, the Amazon Rainforest items offered that, these ornamental flowers can become edible, the trip down the Amazon Excursion leaves used to wrap food.

The Amazon Ecotourism wants to help environmental conservation and protection of species, heliconia plants are long duration and its main function is to protect natural water sources.

Yavari River

The Yavari River is one of the rivers that belong to the Amazon, also is known like Javari River (in Portuguese), is located in the border between Peru and Brazil, in the Amazon jungle tour it is the zone with greater distribution of flora and fauna of the Earth.

In the Valley of the Yavari, the activity that attracts the tourists and scientists is the amazon bird watching, because there they live several species of birds, near 500, due to the existence of enormous trees and the river that are their food sources.

The Yavari River has an extension of 1,050 km of which approximately 400 km are only navigable from the Boca to Palmeira; in the rest of the trajectory you can practice Amazon fishing tour in small vessels like canoes.

When you make the Amazon excursion, specifically in the zone of the Yavari, you will be able to identify and to know the establishment of several indigenous tribes like matis, matses, kulina and mayoruna.

Victoria Regia

When you make the Amazon jungle tour you will be able to delight with the water irises called Amazonian Victoria or Victoria Regia, these big aquatic flowers are of the main attractions of the lakes and rivers of the Amazonia.

In the Amazon excursion, the travelers enjoy the scent to apricot that gives off when it open their leaves at night after the 6 of afternoon and closes them on the following day approximately at 9 in the morning.

This big aquatic plant has purple and white colors, the flower has a 40 cms diameter, is similar to the loto flower and is considered the biggest of the world; in the Amazon tourism you will find not only this species, also animals and plants of great size.

Their stems reach to measure about 7 or 8 meters, the Victoria Regia is always submerged in the water, in the Amazon travel, is common to see small animal and birds resting on their leaves that reach a diameter of 7 meters.