Amazon Adventures

Peru Tours and Travel

Fieldwork Expeditions for Teacher Workshops or Student Groups

Students at the Research Center Lodge discussing the day's data observed from hiking the transect trail grid. The trail grid includes 52 miles of trails and is the largest facility for doing population and conservation studies that exists in the Amazon.

We have a successful history of providing unique learning and travel experiences for high school and college groups. The lodge has unique facilities for an enriching educational experience. We have access to the Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Reserve the only community managed rainforest reserve in Peru. Considered one of the most successful approaches to conservation in the Amazon, it provides an outstanding opportunity for students to learn about the dynamics and challenges of rainforest conservation.

The reserve allows us access to a diverse number of ecosystems, within easy reach of the lodge. The reserve boasts the highest number of mammalian species recorded in lowland Amazon, as well as the greatest number of primate species found in any protected park or reserve in the world. We also have 599 recorded species of birds as well as several species of amphibians and insects discovered here.

Our collaboration with the native population in reserve management has resulted in friendly relations which have created opportunities for our visiting teachers and students to learn about riberenos culture as well as for some research projects in anthropology.

Students with serious interest in science can participate in ongoing scientific research, such as the habituation of social groups of primates at our research center or transect sampling on the Amazon's largest trail grid (over 52 miles on 1000 acres). Our facilities include the longest zipline in the Amazon rainforest, and several platforms within the canopy. Students can have unlimited access to research projects in the forest canopy.

The lodge was the site of research on Pink Dolphins used by Sy Montgomery to write her two books on these interesting marine mammals. We have recently added hydrophonic technology to allow students to listen to or record the underwater noises made by the pink dolphins and other marine animals. The lodge includes a conservation laboratory, Amazon natural history library and special gear for studying insects, frogs and snakes, as well as spotting scopes for birds.

Our experienced staff will custom design your itinerary to match your interests and needs. Extensions to Cusco and Machu Picchu are also available.

Sample Educational Itinerary

Sample Science Itinerary

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"As a publishing animal behaviorist and ecologist, and scholar-in-residence, at The Latin School of Chicago, I have not missed a chance in five consecutive years to take students to the lodge. The expert English spoken by nearly the entire staff keeps the information gathered on everyone's visit very high, and every student (of nearly 100) I have taken there to study rainforest issues has come home saying it was the single most life-changing experience of their lives to date. Comfort and real learning in the real jungle, with a staff that meets you when you land in Lima, takes care of your every need, and carries you back to send you home again at the Lima International airport.

- Michael Pereira, Ph.D. professor at Chicago's Latin School