Delfin Amazon Cruises - Relais & Châteaux

21/10/2026

THE AMAZON REWARDS THOSE WHO LOOK CLOSER.

Meet the giant monkey frog (*Phyllomedusa bicolor), also known as the giant leaf frog. Green skin, pale spots, and long fingers curled around a branch: every detail invites a second look.

Its name suits its movements. This tree-dwelling frog often walks slowly and deliberately through the foliage, gripping branches as it goes. After dusk, males call from the vegetation, adding their voices to the forest’s night chorus.

And its next generation begins above the water. Breeding pairs fold leaves into protective nests for their eggs. When the tadpoles hatch, they drop into the water below—a remarkable beginning to a life between river and canopy.

An encounter like this changes how you see the forest. A branch becomes a pathway. A leaf becomes a nursery. A frog becomes a reason to stop, stay quiet, and pay attention.

Discover the extraordinary details of the Peruvian Amazon with Delfin.



Natural-history details checked against this [scientific review of *Phyllomedusa bicolor*](https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pharmacology/articles/10.3389/fphar.2022.997318/full).

19/10/2026

WHAT PEOPLE REMEMBER is where BioRest begins.

The plants they loved. The ones they used. The ones they returned to because they helped. What grew nearby, what was worth seeking out, what someone taught them to recognise.

Through oral histories, BioRest draws on these recollections to understand plants through the lives of the communities who know them. A name alone tells us very little. The stories reveal why a plant mattered, how it became part of daily life, and what people still remember of its uses.

Behind BioRest is a simple conviction: the people who carry this knowledge belong at the centre of its telling.
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15/10/2026

THE VIEW is what first draws you to the Amazon. Understanding a little of what sustains it changes the way you look.

The trees along the river store carbon and release moisture that helps form rain. Beneath the canopy, thousands of species depend on one another. For the people who live here, these waters and forests are home, livelihood and knowledge passed between generations.

Knowing this gives beauty a different weight. Appreciation grows into an interest in what happens to a place, and in the people who care for it. You begin by admiring the landscape. You leave wanting it to endure.
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13/10/2026

MEET THE STINGLESS BEES

Meet Melipona! These native tropical American bees do things a little differently from familiar honeybees:

Tiny pots instead of honeycomb storage. They store honey in rounded pots made from beeswax mixed with plant resin.

No working sting. Melipona are stingless, though they can still bite to defend their nest. Small doesn’t mean defenseless!

Forest-style living. Many make their homes inside hollow trees, with a queen and a busy community of workers.

A sweet reminder that some of the Amazon’s most fascinating residents come with six legs and wings.
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12/10/2026

FROM THE AMAZON
What do you bring home from the Amazon? With NAUTA, there’s something for your wardrobe, too.

Giuliana Macchiavello, daughter of Delfín’s founders and the creative behind Jaardín Azul, drew on her childhood in the rainforest to create Delfín’s first leisurewear collection. Forest greens, warm terracottas, soft pastels: a palette with a very personal sense of place.

There’s an easy appeal to clothes that take you from exploring to an evening onboard. But the detail we love most? Knowing whose story you’re wearing.

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11/10/2026

08/10/2026

ASIAN ROOTS IN THE AMAZON

An unexpected guest in an Amazon garden. With its tiers of yellow and red cups, beehive ginger (Zingiber spectabile) looks almost too elaborate to be real. Those cups are bracts: modified leaves sheltering tiny flowers. You have to look closely to spot the blooms.

Its original home? The humid forests of Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia. It most likely arrived in the Amazon through the exchange and cultivation of ornamental plants, prized by gardeners for those extraordinary flower heads. Exactly when, and in whose hands, it reached the Peruvian Amazon remains undocumented.

That distinction matters. Being photographed in the Amazon doesn’t make a plant Amazonian. Gardens hold native species alongside arrivals from elsewhere, each with a history shaped by what people chose to grow. Pausing to learn their names—and where they came from—is part of getting to know a place.
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07/10/2026

THIS ONE CAME FROM YOU.

An early morning on the river. A pink dolphin breaking the surface. A quiet moment watching the forest from your suite. A conversation with a guide that changed how you saw the Amazon.

Every traveler takes home a different memory. This recognition tells us those memories have stayed with you.

Delfín Amazon Cruises has been named #7 in the River Ships category of Condé Nast Traveler’s 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards, earning a score of 94.67 out of 100.

What makes this award especially meaningful is that it comes from travelers themselves—from people who have experienced the journey and taken the time to vote.

Twenty years ago, we chose the Amazon. We chose to share its extraordinary wildlife, its living cultures, and the beauty of slowing down enough to notice what surrounds us.

Today, we celebrate this recognition with everyone who makes that journey possible: our guides, captains, chefs, crew, and the communities who welcome our travelers along the river.

And we celebrate it with you.

Whether you joined us recently or still remember a voyage from years ago, thank you for making Delfín part of your story. To everyone who voted: thank you for carrying those memories forward.

What moment from your journey would you love to experience again? Share it with us in the comments.

The river continues.

06/10/2026

TWENTY YEARS ON THE RIVER. A FUTURE TAKING ROOT.

A 70-year-old elder dreamed of seeing the leche huayo tree return. Once abundant, it is now being reintroduced through BioRest.

That wish holds a question for all of us as Delfin celebrates twenty years on the Amazon: what will we help carry forward?

A tree can hold a place in someone’s memory, a use in daily life, and knowledge that deserves to reach another generation. Listening to what an elder hopes to see growing again gives restoration a deeply human purpose.

This is the spirit of BioRest, our biocultural restoration program. Working alongside San Francisco, Amazonas, and Puerto Prado, it connects ancestral knowledge with ecological science, restoring native species chosen for their importance to the forest and the people who live within it.

For Delfín, this work helps define the next twenty years. We want to help create the conditions in which a remembered tree can grow again, and the knowledge surrounding it can continue to be shared.

An anniversary invites us to look back. BioRest asks us to consider what those who come after us will inherit.

Our next chapter begins with listening and takes root in what we nurture together.
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