South America Small Group Trips

The trip was amazing - led by the brilliant tour leader Arturo! Such a varied itinerary, we got to experience and see so much of Peru. Highlights (alongside Machu Picchu) were the evening meal in Misminay and visiting the Uros Islands and Taquile Island on Lake Titicaca. It was a brilliant experience packed with incredible memories. Thanks Arturo for making it so great!

I cannot praise our tour leader and my experience of visiting Costa Rica highly enough. The care and attention provided was excellent. The wildlife aspects of the itinerary exceeded expectations. The pace of the trip ensured there was a good balance between activities and relaxation making it well-balanced, a ‘holiday’ as well as a learning opportunity.

Pabel from Condor travel in Peru was a brilliant leader, everything was well organised and Pabel had so much knowledge about the Incas. He looked after us so well. Thank you Pabel.

Julio was an excellent guide- the best I have experienced. His knowledge, enthusiasm and lovely sense of humour helped to make the trip unforgettable. Highlights included staying at a home stay on Lake Titicaca, condor viewing, seeing Humboldt penguins, trekking over the Dead Woman’s Pass and seeing Machu Picchu.

This trip is not for the faint- hearted. But for me, part of the appeal was very basic accommodation, sleeping in a hammock on deck and showering in cold river water. If you don't expect any luxury on the water, you'll love it. With no changing facilities on board apart from a rudimentary loo/ shower you get to know your fellow travellers very well. And great teamwork when the boat was caught in a storm, battening diwn the hatches. Explore make it clear that it isn't what most people would describe as a cruise!

The accommodation was as a described in the trip notes varying from a Radisson hotel to cute beach huts, cramped metal cabins on the ferry and hammocks close together on the deck of our private boat. If you can't cope with that then don't book this trip. We had a great group and a wonderful guide who coalesced as friends and had an amazing experience. Don't expect to see much mammalian or reptilian wildlife apart from some monkeys, dolphins and Cayman but on the motorised canoe trip on the smaller reaches of the Rio ***** and on Marajo there was copious exotic bird life. Be super careful about food hygiene on the public ferry - a few of us succumbed - but otherwise the food was good and the fruit delicious as was the piranah soup made from the piranah we caught that day.