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Amazon holidays

November 2025

  • Açaí on sale at a market in Belém, Brazil. Two men look at camera, one without a shirt on.

    From the Andes to the Amazon: a six-week riverboat adventure to Belém, Brazil’s gateway to the river

    Visiting the city hosting the Cop30 conference brings with it questions about farming, tourism and sustainability

July 2024

  • Sunset Reflection in Yasuni national park, The Amazon river basin, South America.

    Into the Peruvian Amazon: ‘I’m going to show you good things. Let’s start with an anaconda’

    On the third leg of his South American trip, our writer heads to the remote city of Iquitos and braves a swim in the Amazon – despite the fearsome reputation of the local fish

June 2024

  • Island of the sun at lake Titicaca in Bolivia aerial panoramic view

    The lost temples of Lake Titicaca: exploring the less developed Bolivian shore

  • The ‘lost city’ of Choquequirao near Cusco, a hidden citadel that can only be reached on foot.

    The alternative Machu Picchu: a hike to find the ‘real’ lost world of the Incas

October 2017

  • JUNGLE with DANIEL RADCLIFFE

    From Andes to Amazon: trekking through the Bolivian jungle

    The real-life hero of adventure film Jungle helped set up an ecolodge in Bolivia’s Madidi national park – a wild destination for trekkers, and a ray of light for a hunter-gatherer community under threat

October 2016

  • Victor exploring the flooded forest by the lake, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador

    Ecuador’s Yasuni park: where oil vies with tourism for the rainforest

    The Sani people face a choice between encouraging ecotourism to their rainforest – one of the world’s most biodiverse – and allowing in the oil companies

August 2016

  • the river Tapajos, Brazil

    Rainforest wonder and remote villages in northern Brazil

    An Amazon trip by boat and on foot offers the chance to meet the hidden communities and enjoy the natural splendour of a region still shrouded in mystery – and in need of preservation

June 2016

  • Temple of the Way of Light ayahuasca centre, two hours from Iquitos, Peru

    Peru’s ayahuasca industry booms as westerners search for alternative healing

    Every year, thousands of tourists head to the Peruvian Amazon to take the plant medicine ayahuasca. But what does the powerful drink actually do, and what do local shamans think of the rise in its popularity?

March 2016

  • Céline Cousteau loves diving at the cenotes in the Yucatán

    Why I love …
    ‘I’m passionate about the ocean’: Céline Cousteau on diving off the Americas

    The film-maker and conservationist is as determined to protect the marine world and indigenous peoples, in places like Mexico and the Amazon, as her famous forebears

December 2015

  • A red-fronted Macaw.

    From the Guardian archive
    Back from the Amazon with tropical birds

    The Guardian, 8 December 1960: A trip to the Amazon, not the local pet shop, for one exotic bird owner

April 2015

  • Durian fruit

    Grub's up… BBC wildlife producers on the weirdest food they've eaten

    Would you eat porcupine, sago grubs or raw pig’s intestine? These BBC wildlife producers all have while filming in remote corners of the world. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve eaten on your travels?

March 2015

  • Huaorani people.

    'They come, they photograph, but don’t help': how ecotourism in the Amazon shortchanges the locals

    The Huaorani Ecolodge promises a unique and immersive cultural experience – but at the expense of the people who struggle to maintain a life in the rainforest

February 2015

  • Workers plant seedlings for reforestation in Peru

    Social impact
    Utopia or reality: can South America lead a fossil-free future?

    Proponents of the South American philosophy of Buen Vivir have proposed an action plan for moving towards a more sustainable, more balanced economy

January 2015

  • Kitty Jenkin in the jungle

    Field posts
    Amazon field post: 'I'm so envious of men's ability to pee standing up'

    The dangers of too much Imodium, the Shewee and other rainforest perils – all tackled in Kitty Jenkin’s blogpost Adventuring with a vagina

June 2014

  • Squirrel Monkey

    10 of the best things to do in the Brazilian Amazon

  • David Beckham Into The Unknown

    David Beckham a 'wimp' after Amazon 'scares', says Michael Palin

May 2014

  • Pink river dolphin

    Spotting river dolphins in Bolivia

    The bufeo (river dolphin) is a creature of myth, but you're pretty much guaranteed a sighting on a river cruise in Bolivia's north-eastern wetlands

February 2014

  • Wilderness adventure, Sweden

    Survival holidays: package trips where you learn to live in the wilderness

    Learn skills to survive in the jungles of Guyana, the frozen wilderness of northern Sweden – and the forests of England, writes Doug McKinlay

December 2013

  • Manaus Cityscape

    A tour of Brazil - in pictures

    Those travelling to Brazil for the 2014 World Cup will only scratch the surface of what this vast country has to offer. This striking selection of images spans the Amazon, the beaches, the tribes, the geological phenomena and the mega cities

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August 2013

  • Alex Atala in the Judeia cave

    Brazil's star chef Alex Atala visits the Amazon – gallery

    Alex Atala is one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people on the planet and the number one chef in South America. His work championing the people and produce from the Amazon is key to his achievements: Observer Food Monthly joined him as he travelled to Manaus and São Gabriel da Cachoeira

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