Amazon Pink Dolphins: River Spirits

The Amazon Pink River Dolphin is a rare species of aquatic mammal, obviously characterized by its pink skin.

The Amazon dolphin, parted company with its oceanic ancestors about 15 million years ago. The may have entered the Amazon from the Pacific Ocean or from the Atlantic Ocean. Their long beaks (often lined with tiny hairs), small eyes, disproportionately large flippers and highly flexible bodies -- once considered "primitive" features -- are now recognized as specialized adaptions to a complex environment. 

The females are mostly gray; the males are pink as bubble gum, a strategy they have for impressing females. 

Amazon Pink dolphin

There is a huge bundle of legends and myths surrounding the Amazon Pink river dolphin, as Amazon mythology is as vast and varying as the cultures that inhabit the Amazon rainforest and thanks mainly to superstition they've managed to survive until our modern times. 

Locals don't kill them because they think it's very bad luck. They don’t eat them, because they think dolphins used to be humans long time ago and they can turn back into humans whenever they want.

For some natives, the dolphin turns into a handsome man at night, seduces and impregnates women before returning to the river and becoming a dolphin again. 

Some natives respect the gray dolphin as a sacred animal. Semi-divine creatures, that have to be reverenced.

Pink dolhpins at the Amazon river

River dolphins have no predators, except for humans. Pollution from agriculture, industry, mining, deforestation, boat propellers and fishing nets are considered as the most dangerous to dolphins.

Tourist in the Amazon river listening the dolphins' sounds

 During your trip to the Amazon river, you can easely see this friendly dolphins! 

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AMAZON RIVER CRUISE

Sailing the Amazon River has been considered an adventurous exploration since colonial times when Spanish and Portuguese embark in their ships looking for El Dorado, a fabled city of gold, which the natives wisely and repeatedly assured the conquistadors really existed.

Nowadays, at least 100,000 people live along the banks of the Amazon River, they come from native communities that had decided to move closer to bigger cities like Iquitos but also, a huge portion corresponds to National Parks like Pacaya Samiria National Reserve that is the largest protected flooded forests in the world. 

Hunts on shores of the Amazon river

 

Pacaya Samiria National Reserve

 

In order to explore the Amazon Jungle, tourist count with two options, both starting from Iquitos, a city with a population of 360,000 inhabitants, the largest city in the world that cannot be reached by road:

• A Lodge stay.
• A cruise river expedition.

Despite of the several tour operators offering Amazon cruises in Peru, the services offered on board most of the times don’t meet the traveler’s expectations. 

If you are looking for the best experience on board and during the excursions, we suggest you to choose between Aqua Expeditions (with Aqua and Aria cruises) and Delfin Amazon Cruises (with Delfin I and Delfin II). 

M/V Aqua Cruise

The cruise companies will take care of you since the moment you arrive in Iquitos providing of a private dock to board the cruise.

In what excursions concerns, in the mornings and afternoons, passengers set out on motorized boats with the cruise’s naturalist guides – all local – to fish for piranhas and spot pink river-dolphins, caimans, iguanas, monkeys, bats, sloths and a bewildering variety of birds in the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve. One day they might release baby turtles back into the wild, the next they might visit a sanctuary for manatees, seal-like river mammals or they might hike through the  pristine and unique flooded ecosystem, passing through a classic tropical rainforest with emergent trees and canopy trees reaching up to 55 meters in height. 

Aqua Expedition cruise passengers taking a tour on the Amazon river

Aria cruise passengers taking a Kayak tour on the Amazon river

Guests arrive back in time for a shower in their air-conditioned suite cabins that count with all the comfort of a five stars hotel and the best feature is that all cabins have panoramic windows allowing guest to have a prime view to the jungle and enjoy of the amazing dawns and sunsets. 

Cabin at Delfin Cruise

Food on board is gourmet style including exotic products of the region and it’s a great opportunity for the cruise operators to show to the world typical products from the Amazon.

Wake up and be ready for a delicious breakfast while savoring a fresh juice made of an exotic fruit like Camu Camu! 

Camu Camu Cocktail

Or taste an unusual chonta salad made from the heart of the palm; or better, take for lunch a dish made with a just caught river fish! 

A typical dish from the Amazon: Tacacho, Cecina and Chonta salad

Aqua Expedition Cruse's cheff Pedro Miguel Schiaffino caughts a paiche on the river

For more information about organizing a trip to the Amazon or other destinations of Peru, contact us!

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