Animal Communications: Gina Palmer, Animal Communicator

Travel with Gina Palmer, Animal Communications Specialist

The 2007 Peru Amazon Jungle Adventure

Amazon Jungle Adventure (May 27 - June 2, 2007) • $1600 (excludes airfares)

All group participants will meet in Iquitos, Peru on the first day of the Amazon Jungle portion of the trip on May 27.

Includes jungle bungalows and all meals from May 27 through June 1 served at Tahuayo Jungle Lodge. Does not include international airfare or round-trip interior Peru airfare: Lima-Iquitos and Iquitos-Lima. Arrangements can be made upon your request for lodging in Iquitos at your own expense for May 26 Iquitos arrivals.

Experience the Longer Now

Gina Palmer, animal communicator, will bring you to the heart of the Amazon jungle.

In a timeless way of being you will learn to engage with the flow, experience adventure, and Peruvian spiritualism and its association with sacred plants. We will have a menu of 43 different jungle activities to choose from daily. You can choose to be alone in flat-bottom dugout canoes, on a magical lake in the Amazon Jungle with rare pink-fresh-water dolphins, and other amazing jungle creatures, who will teach and embrace us inside of their world. Or you can choose from this menu of 43 different activities:

Swim in a blackwater lake with pink dolphins
Visit a native shaman.
Medicinal plant hikes.
Swim in a blackwater lake which has warm thermal springs.
Excursions to see feeding or nesting Macaws, Parrots and Toucans.
Canoe into flooded varzea forest
View pygmy marmosets, the world's smallest primates, which live in trees close to the lodge.
Fish for piranha.
Hike to a manakin lek.
View caiman crocodiles
Hike and camp in remote terra firme forest
Visit native artisania market.
Canoe portage to interior lakes, called cochas, rich in wildlife.
View tree frogs, including several species newly discovered.
Jungle survival training.
View electric eels.
Birding (a list of 533 species for the area near the lodge has been compiled).
Visit native communities.
Follow jaguar or peccary tracks in the forest.
Visit a native family, via translator hear oral traditions and native lore.
Visit conservation projects
Greatest amount of flowering plants
Greatest amount of fruiting plants
Parakeets feeding at kapok
Observe macaws at feeding site.
View a diversity of primate species.
Search for giant anaconda
Canoe around giant, fortress-like ficus
Learn the weaving of native baskets.
Hike to see giant kapoks.
Fish with traditional native bow and arrow or spear.
Traditional native dances.
View sloths, anteaters and other mammals.
Insect collecting.
Evening lake boat trips to view southern constellations and nocturnal wildlife, such as boat-billed herons, potoos, owl monkeys and more.
Search for boa constrictors and other snakes.
View brilliant tropical fish such as cichlids, angel fish, tetras, etc.
Explore the canopy on our unique tandem zip-line system.
Observe spectacular hoatzin birds, caiman crocodiles and other species from observation platform on Lake Tabano.
View or participate in poison dart frog conservation management project.
Have a revitalizing morning bath with medicinal plants.
Marine fossil collection.
Listen via hydrophone to the underwater sounds of dolphins and other aquatic animals

You might be tempted to clarify life's important questions, as we put you in touch with amazing Peruvian Curanderos/healers, your own hearts and a longer now. It will change you for the better in a hundred mysterious ways while reawakening your childlike sense of wonder; and remembering how much fun life really is!

NOTE ON THE FLIGHTS

Most flights headed back to the US leave between 11:45 PM and 1 AM. Please be certain when you book your flight that if it is after midnight, while it still may be Saturday night to you, to the airline it is Sunday. This is an easy mistake to make-dozens of people make it daily, but I'm encouraging you not to be among them.

Introduction

Peru, situated along the western coast of South America, between Ecuador and Bolivia, is home to some of the world's most rugged terrain: It's coastal desert is among the world's driest; the Andes Mountains that run down its center are the second highest range in the world; its jungle is one of the densest on the planet. Despite its physical challenges, Peru is one off the oldest continuously inhabited countries on earth.

Regions that elsewhere would never have been inhabited by man at all have been home to glorious civilizations for thousands and thousands of years. Many say that is because those cultures discovered that Peru is one of Earth's mystical vortexes. Others claim habitation was possible because Peru's civilizations early on discovered the value of several sacred plants which taught man how to survive. This voyage of discovery will introduce you to both the amazing energy and the sacred plant-based ceremonies of Peru. All you need is an open heart, an open mind, a lust for adventure and a sense of fun. It is not a physically demanding trip, though at times we will get dirty, mosquito bitten and tired. But we'll laugh the whole time.

The Amazon Jungle Portion of my Peru 2007 tour will be joining with participants that had earlier arrived in Peru 5/17/07 for the Andean Highland portion of the trip.

Your international flights arriving from your home should arrive in Lima late at night on 5/25 to join with our arriving Andean Highland Tour Group on 5/26. Then we all fly out of Lima for Iquitos together as a group in the afternoon, to begin the Amazon Jungle portion of the Tour. Upon the group's arrival in Iquitos on 5/26, we check in to the El Dorado Plaza Hotel in Iquitos (at your own expense) for the night of 5/26.

On 5/27 at 8 a.m. we will catch a boat on the Amazon River out of Iquitos, for a 4 hour boat ride to arrive at our Jungle Lodge accommodations between noon and 1:30 p.m. on 5/27.

The Tour price includes all meals, lodging and activities offered at the Tahuayo Jungle Lodge accommodations, from May 27 through June 1, 2007.

* Assistance is available to help with booking your inside Peru airfares from Lima to Iquitos, (rt), and your 5/26/07 Iquitos hotel lodging accommodations, and ground transfers can all be arranged for you upon your request, at your own expense. Gina will put you in touch with her booking agency that can handle all of those details for you. The booking agency does accept Visa & Master Card credit card payments for their services.

Tour price inclusions for May 27 through June 1, 2007 Amazon Jungle Trip:

All Tahuayo jungle lodge meals from May 27th upon our arrival at the jungle lodge on 5/27 through June 1, 2007
Private bungalow lodging accommodations at Tahuayo Jungle Lodge / Dbl Occupancy (additional cost for single occupancy bungalows)
Bungalow includes private bathroom facilities unless otherwise specified at time of booking
Ground Transfers to/from the Tahuayo Lodge by boat from/to Iquitos on 5/27 and June 2, 2007

Excluded from Tour Cost:

Meals, ground transfers & lodging prior to 5/27/07
Iquitos Lodging at El Dorado Plaza Hotel on 5/26/07, all airfares, beverages, country entry/departure taxes, trip insurance, Peru government taxes, & ground transfers/transportation costs as indicated above.

Trip notes:

Mandatory Trip Tour Liability Release Forms required to participate in tour, will be sent to you upon our receipt of full trip payment.
Trip Payment Deadline: $1,600- paid in full at time of reservation, paid by cashiers check to Gina Palmer.
Mail payments to Gina at: PO Box 2525, Vista, Ca 92084
Sorry, credit card payment not accepted for the $1,600- Amazon Jungle Tour Cost.
Refund Policy: No credit or refunds for payments. All trip tour payments are non-transferable, non-refundable

Amazon Jungle Photo Gallery

Moises Torres Vienna and two Matses men with giant 20' anaconda. 1987, Jeff Rotman Matses hunter in the early morning on a small lake off the Rio Galvez, Peru. 1987, Jeff Rotman

Matses boy with bow and arrows. Peru. 1986, Steve Flores Matses boy with fresh fish catch, Peru. 1987, Jeff Rotman

Matses boy with fresh fish catch, Peru. 1987, Jeff Rotman Matses woman with her full jaguar face. Peru. 1986, Steve Flores

Pablo with one of his wives and some of his children on the banks of the Rio Galves, Peru. 1987, Jeff Rotman A few of Pablo's children. Peru. 1986, Steve Flores

Pablo receiving nu-nu snuff. Peru. Pablo's hand with nu-nu snuff. Peru.

Some Matses returning from a successful sahino (boar) hunt on the Rio Galvez. Peru. 1986, Steve Flores A Phyllomedusa bicolor tree frog tied up like a green trampoline so that the Matses may extract a medicinal secretion they call "sapo". Peru. 1990, Larry Lavalle

The Matses exciting the Phyllomedusa bicolor to secrete its "sapo", which is collected on the split bamboo stick above it. Peru. Pablo with fresh "sapo" burns. 1987, Jeff Rotman

One of Pablo's wives carves up a tapir that had recently been killed while carrying one of her sleeping children by a templine. Peru. 1987, Jeff Rotman A young Matses woman with her child. Peru. 1987, Jeff Rotman

The view from the bend in the river at the curandero Don Julio Jerena's house in the early morning. Rio Auchyaco, Peru. The platform kitchen with raised cooking stove at Don Julio Jerena's home. Rio Auchyaco, Peru.

Don Julio Jerena sits near his pot of cooking ayahuasca. Rio Auchyaco, Peru. Don Julio Jerena stirs a pot of cooking ayahuasca. Peru. 1986, Steve Flores

A Yagua man in his house on the Rio Jivari, more than 100 miles from the nearest known Yagua camp, makes a skein of blowgun darts tipped in curare while his wife makes lunch and Moises Torres Vienna looks on. Rio Jivari, Peru.