When people talk about “the Amazon,” they generally mean the vast Amazon rainforest, not the river that gave the forest its name. (To test this, Google “the Amazon.” When I did that, the list of top ...

Whether in the Peruvian Andes or the Amazon, Paddington is just fine with his duffle coat. But you’ll need these packing tips for your Peru Amazon cruise.

The Abercrombie & Kent Pure Amazon River Cruise offers luxury accommodations, local cuisine, wildlife excursions, and ...

Pure Amazon, an A&K Sanctuary riverboat, offers fine dining, customizable excursions within the Peruvian Amazon’s Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, and accommodations tailored to solo travelers.

The Amazon has been called a “tree of rivers” – multi-branched, intricate, connected – and in many ways, a cruise is the only way to really explore it. South America’s longest river runs for 4,000 ...

The Amazon has always carried an air of mystery, with its winding waterways and dense rainforest stretching for miles. Travelers once saw it as unreachable, reserved only for explorers and scientists.

In today’s modern age, it might be fair to assume that science has decisively answered some of the bigger questions regarding the natural world – or at least those dependent upon sheer physical ...

Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park, along the banks of the Napo River, shows how biodiversity can thrive when humans don’t interfere. A butterfly sits perched on the shell of an endangered yellow-spotted ...

Even in the dry season, the Amazon river is so vast that I can’t make out the other side with my binoculars. We have travelled 2 hours downriver from the Colombian town of Puerto Nariño, searching for ...

CroisiEurope is building a new luxury river ship that will explore the Brazilian Amazon. The 160-foot vessel—which is the ...

Last year’s record drought in the Amazon and less-than-usual rainfall since caused river water levels to drop rapidly, hindering navigation by barges carrying grains for export and cutting off ...