Flotel Reina de Enin
La Reina de Enin riverboat, a colorfully painted catamaran newly renovated in 2000, is your air-conditioned comfortable base to explore Bolivia´s tropical rainforest. Enjoy the remote Amazon wilds from the comfort of the Reina's viewing decks.
While aboard, you are welcome to participate in any activity. We may take one launch boat to a lagoon for a swim, another boat to a trailhead for a jungle hike, while a third may visit a remote white-sand beach for a relaxing walk and a check for fresh animal footprints. You can treat it as a relaxing cruise and stay onboard the Reina for your whole stay, or you can make Indiana Jones envious by going full-bore with camera, binoculars, hiking boots, and specimen bottles 24/7. It's up to you. At the end of each day, we often meet upstairs on the viewing deck to have a drink, share the day's adventures, and observe a remarkably vivid Milky Way.
Shipboard life is casual, sitting on deck or lying in a hammock simply enjoying the views and whatever the forest wants to reveal.
The Reina's 3 daily meals receive consistent thumbs-up reviews. Breakfast includes coffee or tea, eggs, bread and jam, and fresh fruit such as pineapples, grapefruit, papaya, and bananas. Lunches and dinners include your choice of 2 types of meat (we rotate chicken, fish, pork, and beef) served with rice, vegetables, bread, and fruit. Vegetarian? Welcome aboard! Just notify us ahead of time so we can prepare! Bottled water, beer, liquor, and soft drinks are always available.
Flotel Reina de Enin works with CYMA, a small group of university-trained, native Bolivian biologists that provide expert guiding to our groups.
Passenger quotes on our captain Tomás Calderón:
" The boat's captain Thomas was likewise wonderful. He was a great source of knowledge and was of course, an expert boatsman. The most enjoyable part for me was just to sit in his fast boat and observe as he took us all over the places. " Andy
Capt. Calderón has worked with us for 10 years, seven as La Reina's captain. He is well versed in Amazonian flora and fauna, and he has a contagious enthusiasm for the natural world.
La Reina can accommodate 36 passengers in its 10 triple cabins and four doubles, each with an ingeniously designed private bathroom. The cabins are comfortable, with river views and a generator to provide air-conditioning. it is a very steady riverboat allowing passengers to sleep quite comfortably as it is also a very quiet vessel.
On our Amazon cruises few passengers spend much time in their cabins. There are too many things to do -- hikes, horseback rides, swims and shore excursions on one of La Reina's six motorboats.