Ideas for Pantanal and Amazon Rainforest on very low budget (and without a car)
Hi all! As some of you may have gathered, I’m currently on a long backpacking trip in South America (unfortunately coming to an end this December). Over the next two months o
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These Amazon cruises are superb. Wonderful wildlife, a great team and a very comfortable boat. Cruising the Amazon is THE way to travel! So I’m happy to announce next year
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This should be a great trip which I have no hesitation in recommending! I know the guides, the boats, the crew and a least some of the forest and its mammals. I travelled here in 2
Ecuador Trip Report
I’ve uploaded a report for my very successful 2019 trip to Ecuador here https://www.mammalwatching.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/EcuadorSanIsidroTiputini.pdf . I visited C
Puerto Maldonado, Peru
I was sorting through some old photos and came across these, probably 10 years old now. I took a general vacation to Peru to see the sites in the sacred valley and the coast many y
Best part of the Amazon?
Hello all, I’m considering doing a grand tour of South America in the future, so I’m for sure going to try and make it to at least one corner of the Amazon. Wanted to a
Shiripuno Trip Report
I traveled to the remote Shiripuno Amazon Lodge in Ecuador last December, where I spent ten nights searching for mammals and other wildlife. I’ll be returning in a couple wee
free e-book “Field Guide to Amazonian Bats”
I don’t think I have seen a notice of this here yet? There is a new and free e-book, titled “Field Guide to Amazonian Bats.” Link is at bottom of the summary below. If that l
Volunteering in a Megadiverse spot
Hi everyone, I posted this question as a response to another thread, but I figured I’d get more visibility if I posted this as a thread of its own: Does anyone know of any pl
Random Question about Primate Species Richness in Latin America
SO, once upon a time, before there was SO much information on Wikipedia (such as pages that list all the mammal species of most countries), before Mammalwatching.com was so compreh