The best opportunity to enjoy the magic of the rain forest is onboard the "Jungle Discovery", a first class Yacht which is part of an ecotourism project operating in the deepest Peruvian Amazon forest in the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve. This extraordinary adventure waits for you to explore the very high biodiversity of these exotic landscapes and their exuberant wildlife. The Jungle Discovery offers its passengers full contact with nature with the maximum comfort and service. Our profound knowledge about the jungle assures you an unforgettable trip.

The Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, created in 1982, lies in the north-east of Peru, in the Department of Loreto and covers a territory of 2’080, 000 hectares, and is the biggest natural reserve of the country. It lays between the two rivers Marañón and Ucayali, who from their confluence on form the Amazon River. It gets its names from the two rivers that pass trough it, the Pacaya river in the South and the Samiria River in the North. A huge part of the Reserve is almost all year round flooded with black water, the so called “igapó” forest. For this reason it is also called the “the forest of the mirrors”, because the sky and the trees reflect in the clear black water as in a mirror.

For hundreds of years the Cocama-Cocamilla indigenous communities have lived in this protected region always respecting their surrounding environment.

The Reserve counts with more than 1200 plant species. The Fauna counts with registered 449 bird species, 58 amphibians, 69 reptiles, 256 fishes and 132 mammal species. It is possible to observe the Gray and Pink Dolphins, Manatee, Giant Otters, Jaguar, Black Caiman, different River Turtles, Anaconda, Macaws, Harpy Eagle and the biggest of all fishes, the Arapaima.

The Pacaya Samiria Reserve is characterized for the cycle of flood and dry season. Rainy season is from October to May where the black water rivers flood the forest and the animals search refuge in the higher parts of the area (terra firme). From May to September, in the dry season, the aquatic life is concentrated in small ponds, lakes and creeks and we find huge sand banks along the rivers where the river turtles lay their eggs and the Cocomas and other settlers farm corn, rice, beans and other cultivated plants.

The Pacaya Samiria Natural Reserve has more values than the wildlife: the regional, endemic and endangered diversity, potential genetic resources, and the ethnic groups living in the park; it is a water reserve; it offers ecotourism practices and its value for the simple fact of existing.