AT#957 - Cruising the Peruvian Amazon with G Adventures

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, History

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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In this episode of the Amateur Traveler podcast, host Chris Christensen recounts his immersive experience cruising the Peruvian Amazon on a nine-day "Amazon Riverboat Adventure in Depth" with G Adventures. This small-group journey, involving ~24 travelers, offers a deep dive into the culture, biodiversity, and challenges of life in the Amazon Basin. The trip began in Lima, Peru, and then took the group via domestic flight to Iquitos, one of the world’s most isolated cities, accessible only by air or river. From there, they traveled 97 km by road to Nauta to embark on the riverboat Amatista. For five days, they cruised the Marañón, Ucayali, and Amazon Rivers, exploring tributaries like the Yanayacu ("Black Water") River in skiffs and visiting riverside communities near and within the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve. Highlights included: Spotting Amazon wildlife such as pink and gray river dolphins, spider monkeys, black-collared hawks, pygmy marmosets, capybaras, horned screamers, long-nosed bats, sloths, and dozens of tropical birds, including toucans, macaws, and herons. ... https://amateurtraveler.com/cruising-the-peruvian-amazon/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of the Amateur Traveler podcast is sponsored by Smart Travel, a new podcast from the smart people at NerdWallet.
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0:56.7	Follow Smart Travel wherever you get your podcasts. And thanks to Smart Travel and NerdWallet
1:01.8	for sponsoring this episode of Amateur Traveler. Amateur Traveler Episode 957. Today, Amateur Traveler
1:10.4	talks about sloths and snakes,
1:13.1	toucans and tarantulas, monkeys and macaws as we cruise the Peruvian Amazon with G Adventures.
1:22.1	This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler. Let's talk about the Amazon.
1:29.2	This is another solo episode for the last trip of the summer for me and what was a busy travel
1:35.2	summer. And that was a trip that I did with G Adventures. And we've talked about G. Adventures
1:41.6	small group travel on the show many times before and also mentioned it because that's the vendor behind the amateur traveler, 2026 trip to Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
1:54.0	But this was a trip that I did with them that was a sponsor trip.
1:57.1	So they were paying for my tour, although not flights, for this particular
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