Amazon Tours in Colombia: Best 4 & 5-Day Packages (2026 Guide)

If you are looking for an Amazon tour in Colombia, the short answer is this: fly to Leticia, pick a 4 or 5-day package that includes full board, a guide and river transport, and travel in any month: high and low water offer different experiences. This guide compares our six packages, explains how to get there from Cartagena and Bogotá, what it costs, what to pack and how to save up to 10% by booking early.

See every package with its price on our Amazon tours page.

Where is the Colombian Amazon?

The Colombian Amazon is the far south of the country, in the Amazon Trapezium (Tres Fronteras), where Colombia, Brazil and Peru meet on the Amazon River. Leticia is the gateway city. From there, boats reach Puerto Nariño, a car-free eco-town, the Ticuna community of Mocagua, Amacayacu National Park and the Tarapoto Lakes, a Ramsar wetland where pink and grey river dolphins live.

It is not a “one-stop” jungle. You combine three experiences: rainforest (treehouses, canopy walks, night walks), river culture (Ticuna, Cocama, Yagua, Murui-Huitoto and other peoples) and wildlife (dolphins, monkeys, birds). Every package below mixes the three in a different proportion.

Compare the 6 Amazon tour packages

Package	Length	Best for	Where you stay
Leticia & Puerto Nariño	4 days / 3 nights	First visit, tight schedule	Hotels and lodges
Above & Below	4 days / 3 nights	Choosing your own lodge	Your choice of 5 lodges
Chunaki Nature Reserve	4 days / 3 nights	Sustainable ecolodge stay	Chunaki Ecolodge malocas
Amazon Expedition	5 days / 4 nights	Treehouse night and wildlife	Treehouse and lodges
Biodiversity & Communities	5 days / 4 nights	Culture and indigenous knowledge	Lodges and community stays
Burú Ancestral Adventure	5 days / 4 nights	Comfort in the canopy	Burú Lodge treehouses

All six include airport pick-up, accommodation, full board, filtered water, listed activities with entrance fees, river transport, a guide, community contributions and medical assistance insurance.

The 6 best Amazon tours, one by one

1. Leticia & Puerto Nariño: the easiest way to meet the Amazon

If it is your first time, start here. You explore Leticia’s market, the Parrot Park and a medicinal-plant apothecary, cross into Tabatinga, Brazil for food, music and a caipirinha, then sail to Puerto Nariño, where Ticuna, Cocama and Yagua communities live in an eco-town without cars.

2. Above & Below: pick your own lodge

This plan crosses the triple border, visits Mocagua and ends at the Tarapoto Lakes, and lets you choose where to sleep: Hotel Waira Suites, Amazon Bed & Breakfast, BioHotel Arará, La Ceiba or Calanoa. City comfort or river immersion, your call.

3. Chunaki Nature Reserve: a sustainable ecolodge

You stay in Chunaki Ecolodge, with malocas built with traditional techniques and modern comfort, and explore Puerto Nariño and the Tarapoto Lakes by canoe. The price is per person for a group of five.

4. Amazon Expedition: treehouse night and Ticuna community

Five days that mix a night in a treehouse in Los Kilómetros, the cosmogony of the Murui-Huitoto people, lunch with a Ticuna family in Mocagua and pink dolphins at Tarapoto.

5. Biodiversity & Communities: learn from indigenous knowledge

Visit an ancestral maloca where a taita shares his worldview, learn about medicinal plants and Tikuna ceramics in San Martín de Amacayacu, and finish with a woodcarving workshop. The best fit if culture matters most to you.

6. Burú Ancestral Adventure: comfort in the canopy

Sleep at Burú Lodge, in treehouses with a restaurant and a ceremonial maloca, and sail to Isla Cacao and Puerto Nariño. Note that Burú has no pool or hot water: it is a rustic jungle stay with good comfort.

How to get to the Amazon from Cartagena

There are no roads into Leticia, so you arrive by plane. From Cartagena you normally connect through Bogotá to Leticia. For the smoothest schedule:

• Land in Leticia before noon on day one.
• If your last night is in Puerto Nariño or Mocagua, book the return flight after 11:40 a.m.; otherwise a private boat supplement may apply.
• Our team meets you at the airport and handles all ground and river transfers.

Boats from Leticia take about 2 hours to Puerto Nariño and 1 hour 30 minutes to Mocagua. Shared boats follow fixed schedules, while private boats can leave any time between 6 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Best time to visit the Colombian Amazon

You can travel all year, but the experience changes with the river level:

• High water (December to mid-June): more rain and mosquitoes, cooler temperatures and canoe trips into the flooded forest.
• Low water (July to November): higher temperatures, river beaches and sandbanks, longer distances to board boats and some communities harder to reach. A luggage porter fee of COP 80,000 per person applies in this season.

If you prefer cooler weather and flooded-forest canoeing, go in high water. If you want beaches and long walks, choose low water.

What an Amazon tour costs and what is included

Our Amazon packages are priced per person in Colombian pesos and include airport pick-up, accommodation, full board, filtered water, listed activities and entrance fees, river transport, a guide, Puerto Nariño and Mocagua entry taxes, community contributions and medical insurance.

Budget separately for:

• Flights Bogotá – Leticia – Bogotá.
• Leticia entry tax: COP 50,000 per person (2026), paid in cash at the airport.
• Luggage porters in the dry season: COP 80,000 per person.
• Children: ages 3 to 10 pay 80% of the adult rate; from 11, adult rate.

What to pack for the Amazon

• Quick-dry, long-sleeved shirts and long trousers. Avoid fluorescent colors.
• Shoes with good grip plus a spare pair. No sandals, flats or smooth soles.
• Insect repellent, sunscreen, a hat and a light rain jacket.
• A flashlight with charged batteries and a personal towel for hikes.
• A soft bag of up to 15 kg. Avoid wheeled suitcases: the boats have no space for them.
• A waterproof daypack and plastic bags to protect electronics from humidity.

Never leave valuables on the boats: phones, cash, documents and cameras stay with you.

Health and safety tips

• A yellow fever vaccination is recommended. Travelers arriving from Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda or Brazil need the international certificate to enter Colombia.
• Tap water is not drinkable in any lodge; your package includes filtered water.
• Always wear the life jacket and keep your hands inside the boat.
• Mobile signal is poor. Leticia has ATMs (Bancolombia, Banco de Bogotá, BBVA) and Puerto Nariño has a Bancolombia banking agent.
• Tell us in advance about medication, allergies or dietary restrictions.

Travel responsibly

The Colombian Amazon is one of the country’s great eco-destinations, and visiting it sustainably means leaving it better than you found it. Our packages support community projects and conservation foundations. Help by not littering, respecting wildlife and plants, leaving minerals and artifacts where they are and buying crafts directly from local artisans. You may also bring school supplies or light tools as a donation for the communities.

More guides: best time to visit, how to get to Leticia from Cartagena and what to pack.