The Amazon River is approximately 4,000 miles long and serves as the central vein of the Amazon Rainforest, the world's largest river basin and a wellspring of biodiversity home to millions of species ...

The Amazon has been called a “tree of rivers” – multi-branched, intricate, connected – and in many ways, a cruise is the only way to really explore it. South America’s longest river runs for 4,000 ...

Explore the Amazon’s 4,000-mile journey, which crosses into nine different nations You can only really do the Amazon from the water. The world’s greatest river rises in Peru’s Andean uplands and ends ...

The new Paddington in Peru film features the Peruvian bear returning to his homeland to look for his aunt in the Amazon rainforest via river boat. Want to follow Paddington and explore Peru too?

Slithering its way through the heart of South America, the Amazon River opens out to the world a passage into some of the most remote and beautiful landscapes on Earth. Amazon River cruises ride ...

The Amazon has always carried an air of mystery, with its winding waterways and dense rainforest stretching for miles. Travelers once saw it as unreachable, reserved only for explorers and scientists.

The big news in South America river cruising is AmaWaterways launching the first luxury river ship on the Magdalena River in Colombia, with plans to launch a second ship later this year. But it is not ...

After being outfitted with lifejackets and mud boots, we boarded skiffs for the brief ride across the river to the boat. No more than halfway across, our guide shone his flashlight on some bats in the ...

Canoe trips along the Amazon and meetings with indigenous communities are among the experiences that cruise line CroisiEurope is set to offer as the brand prepares to debut on the world’s longest ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. River cruising used to have a staid reputation—convenient Europe-by-bus ...