Our week started with some pink dolphins swimming around our skiffs, and some gray dolphins fishing — what a great show! Clavero is a huge lake that has a couple of villages by the shoreline. This place is full of wildlife, such as ospreys, monkeys, multicolored birds, dolphins, and hundreds of species of fish. And our afternoon was as amazing as the morning: we observed many varieties of egrets, sloths, macaws, and the great landscape with humongous trees and emerald green vegetation. We had an astonishing beginning in this paradise!
5/24/2025
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Delfin II
Yarapa River, Amazonas Village, Peru
Leaving Delfin II at 06:00 for our morning skiff ride, we explored the Yarapa River and monkeys were everywhere! We saw common wooly monkeys, monk saki monkeys, and common squirrel monkeys. We weren’t monkeying around! In addition to the monkeys there were woodpeckers galore! We photographed crimson-crested, yellow-tufted, and cream-colored woodpeckers as they were busily hammering away at trees and termite nests. Our afternoon was spent at Amazonas Village getting an introduction to life along the river. We enjoyed demonstrations of food preparation, basketmaking with palm fibers, and hand-dying with local plants to give the baskets vibrant colors. We also had an introduction to Minga Peru, a group serving 40 different communities in this area. Our evening was topped off with a toast to the beginning of the actual Amazon River, where the Marañon and Ucayali Rivers converge. Salud!
