Legend has it that the Santiago river used to swallow the canoe of anyone trying to explore it. Now an indigenous community ...

Explore the Amazon’s 4,000-mile journey, which crosses into nine different nations You can only really do the Amazon from the water. The world’s greatest river rises in Peru’s Andean uplands and ends ...

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 ...

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

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 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.

Rivers usually flow from higher level to lower level. But due to natural factors like strong tides, floods or storms, it is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The head of Brazil's environmental agency said on Wednesday that he expects a decision soon on state-owned oil company Petrobras' request to conduct exploratory studies in a region known as 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 ...