The Amazon Rainforest is mostly inaccessible by road, making travel there an adventure in itself. On the Amazon Clipper Cruise, you will spend four days navigating the word’s biggest river and its tributaries. Here you will see nature at its finest, especially at dawn and dusk. Yampu travelers will hike in the forest and go fishing, bird watching, and swimming. You have the option to take the Amazon Clipper Premium Cruise that offers the Amazon’s best small-ship cruising. The trip includes a visit to Brazil’s second largest city, Rio de Janeiro.

This deluxe Yampu trip combines Lima, Cuzco, and Machu Picchu with a cruise extension to the Peruvian Amazon aboard the 12-suite luxury vessel M/V Aqua. Navigating the mightiest river in the world, you will witness the pristine wilderness areas and wildlife of the Peruvian Amazon. The opportunity to view different species of monkeys, river dolphins, and innumerable varieties of birds are all part of a day’s adventure. This deluxe trip, combining the Andes with the Amazon, is certain to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

The Stella and the Via are the new expedition cruise ships of Patagonia Cruises in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. Each of the outside cabins offers spectacular views of glaciers, forests and snow-capped mountains when we cross from Argentina to Chile, arriving at Torres del Paine National Park. Yampu travelers will also visit Buenos Aires - that lovely city on the southern shore of the Rio de la Plata - and Santiago.

The Galapagos Islands lie on the Equator, 600 miles west of Ecuador. The isolation of the islands has permitted certain species of animals to evolve—thus Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. We will travel to the Galapagos on a 5-day cruise, observing the wildlife just like Darwin did 170 years ago. Yampu travelers will also visit Quito, Lima, Cuzco, Machu Picchu, Santiago, the Lake District, Bariloche, Buenos Aires, Iguazu Falls and Rio de Janeiro.