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ABOUT M/V ANAKONDA ACTIVITIES - in their own words:
What is the Anakonda Amazon cruise experience?  On land, you are offered the excitement of adventure, plunge into one of the most remote corners of our globe, where biodiversity is teeming, where life is incessant, where interaction with nature brings us closer to it and where you will feel more alive. An Amazon cruise, conceived as a true overall experience, can only complement the excitement of discovering such a fascinating natural world.

Activities include:

Bird & Nature Watching 
Birds, spectacular and amazing from their colors to their habits, from their flight to their song, will be perhaps the first heavenly creations you meet during your Amazon tour. This is why so many bird watchers are so enthralled with the Amazon Basin. The regal Harpy Eagle, the gaudy Blue-and-Yellow Macaw, spectacular tanagers and soaring hawks, secretive herons and mythical-looking Hoatzins, the Amazon is certainly one of the most sought after birding destinations. But it is also a great place to encounter reptiles, amphibians and mammals, including record numbers of monkeys, tapirs, freshwater dolphins, Giant otters and many other unthinkable, unbelievably inspiring, creatures. The Anakonda also offers the opportunity of taking you to many different sites within a number of national parks and reserves, including world famous Yasuní Biosphere Reserve and the magical lakes of the Cuyabeno. Our specialist and local guides are expert spotters and they will surprise you by their skill at showing you many of these animals among the density of the voluptuous jungle.

Cross Cultural Encounters
The Anakonda Amazon Cruise takes time to visit fascinating communities that live amidst towering trees, lush tangles and camouflaged black water streams. Many astounding discoveries await for us there and true cross-cultural experiences will surely change your view of the world we live in. Intriguing, inspiring and fascinating men and women have made the Amazon their rightful home for centuries. They understand perfectly that protecting their environment is the only way to live within it—a lesson to be learned in giving and taking, in mutual respect and love of their natural home at the crossroads, somewhere between the gates of the outside world and depths of the Amazon rainforest.

Glamping - personalize your jungle tour - click here for more info
Personalize your Amazon jungle tour with our glamping programs at any moment during your visit. We can set up a romantic, cozy rainforest niche basically anywhere, although there are designated camping sites we often offer for this activity. We can turn any corner of the route into a luxury camp site, serving the finest meals for you to enjoy. This way you won't miss the personalized onboard attention and we guarantee the most comfortable sleepovers in our state-of-the-art deluxe tents. While the Anakonda Amazon River Cruise brings the Amazon into your cabin, glamping is the ideal opportunity to make that experience more exciting on land. This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to sleep placidly in a truly Amazonian bedroom. if you are interested on Gampling, please inquire information, as there is an additional charge for this activity

Jungle Trekking
A common activity during our Amazon cruise adventure is to disembark at stream banks and take exploratory walks amidst secret Amazon jungle trails, discovering the differences between the different types of forests. Here, you’ll notice that what goes on behind a dead leaf can be as fascinating as what happens along the riverbanks or on overhanging branches. We will climb 30 meters up an emergent tree to explore life from the forest canopy, where another world thrives; a very different world from what you’ve experienced down below within the jungle’s undergrowth. Millions of plants, some which are unnamed to science, will escort you on your hikes as you seek out the secrets of the Amazon Basin.

Kayaking
During your Amazon cruise adventure aboard the Anakonda, you can take part in this very popular and exciting activity, where you’ll engage in a one-on-one experience with Amazonian tributaries, paddling at your leisure, guiding yourself around. Kayaking in the Amazon is, for many, a kind of fantasy, dream-come-true chance of a lifetime. But even for those who never felt so inclined, we do suggest everyone give it a try. It gets you very close and personally involved with this ever-special corner of the world. Duly equipped to offer this activity in total safety, it is an excellent opportunity to feel the river in your arms and body as you advance downstream.

Natural Medicine
The medicinal complexity found within the Amazon is far from being understood. It actually transcends our imagination. The simple fact that plants and trees diversity in any given hectare of the Amazon can be as extensive as other entire countries, is testimony enough of what remains unknown about the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. Ancestral, amazonian biochemical discoveries, such as “curare” (used in anesthesia), make up some of the many groundbreaking staples that modern Western medicine now rely on as ‘state-of-the art’. There is a fascinating, alternative medicinal world that owes a lot to the Amazonian rainforest’s magic. During our Amazonian river tour, we will visit communities that use and understand different medicinal practices based on the interminably diverse vegetation of the Amazon.

River and Lake Exploration
Feel like Conrad, whose novel “The Heart of Darkness” set in the Belgian Congo; is one of the most poignant examples of river exploration in a tropical rainforest, while discovering the extreme nature and wildlife conditions of the Amazon’s tributaries. It is possible to explore new lagoons and streams –the ones where we cannot see with cruise- while the Anakonda sails down the river. We can discover these new territories thanks to the Anakonda’s classic three wooden canoes, which can carry up to 20 passengers, paddled by experienced native guides. Some of the most fascinating encounters occur during these river activities, which also become some of the most atmospheric, romantic and picture-perfect moments of your Amazon cruise experience.

Stargazing
Pre-Columbian cultures, especially those found near the Equator, have been recognized for their deep astronomical understanding of the universe, and are known for the riveting mythologies that surround the subject of the stars and the moon. For the kichwa communities in the Amazon rainforest, which we visit as part of our Amazon cruise itineraries, the Moon was once a human entity that lived at the brink of time, in a dark world. She was eventually banished from humanity and Earth, and finally escaped to the sky. The Moon (Kiya, in Quechua), never returned but lights the darkness with her unique, whitewashed light. Amazonian nights are surely magical with the ever-present nostalgic moon caressing the voluptuous forests and sleeping rivers. The Anakonda’s ample deck will certainly become your Amazon cruise adventure’s favorite hangout from which you will experience the magic and mythology that emanate from deep within the bowels of the jungle