Peru

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Travel deep into the Peruvian Amazon, where rivers are the roads, the rainforest shapes everyday life, and some of the best learning happens alongside the people who call it home.

For four days, you’ll live in an Amazon community and join its daily routine. You’ll fish, plant, cook, and build alongside families whose generations of knowledge have shaped life in one of the most extraordinary environments on Earth. You’ll also help with projects that matter locally, like installing clean water filters in homes and schools and supporting the Adopt-A-School program with our partner CONAPAC.

You’ll arrive with questions and learn by doing. And you might find that people whose lives look completely different from yours have more in common with you than you expected.

The rest of the Amazon becomes your classroom. You’ll travel by boat along the Amazon and Napo Rivers, trek through primary rainforest, walk the Canopy Walkway high above the forest floor, look for pink river dolphins, and explore Iquitos, the City in the Rainforest. Along the way, you’ll see how conservation, community, and sustainable tourism fit together, and how a business and a nonprofit can team up to protect a place like this.

This isn’t simply a trip to the Amazon. It’s a Shoulder-to-Shoulder field study: a chance to get close enough to participate, ask questions, and see the world differently. And you may leave with a new interest, questions you want to pursue, or even a glimpse of something you might one day want to do.

*Please note that programs are subject to change based on the health and safety of participants and our partners.