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Jeremy
CEO & Founder

It started early. A trip to Peru and Bolivia when I was five, wandering riverbanks with my grandfather while he sketched locals, hearing parrots overhead, catching piranha. Growing up around exotic animals, living in Panama, traveling through places that were completely one hundred and eighty degrees from anything familiar. It all added up to one conclusion: there is so much out there that most people never get to see, and I wanted to find a way to change that.

Rainforest Cruises exists because I believe that taking someone to a remote corner of the Amazon, the Galápagos, or a village on the Mekong, changes the way they see the world. Not through a lecture, but through the moment they decide to create for themselves. The frog they notice. The conversation with a local guide. The species they didn’t know existed until they were standing right in front of it. That’s what we’re really selling.

I’m based in Miami now, though Latin America never really left my system. Our team is here to help you figure out which destination, which season, and which experience is the right fit for you.

Miami, USA
[email protected]
+1 786 692 5290
One Tip I Always Share

You have to go with the flow, especially on boats and especially in places that are far removed.

Aerial view of a wide, winding river flowing through the dense, green canopy of the Amazon rainforest

My Wild Refuge

The Amazon
The Amazon. It always comes back to the Amazon. It imprinted on me when I was five years old, wandering riverbanks with my grandfather while he sketched, and hearing parrots overhead. That's the thing about the Amazon, you think you're going there to see it, but it has its own ideas about what it wants to show you. No two trips are the same.
Explore the Amazon

An Encounter I'll Never Forget

A Lesson In Conservation
I was about twenty-two, volunteering informally with the Smithsonian in Panama, cataloguing poison arrow frogs, a personal obsession. I found a color variation that wasn't in any database: slightly off-green with copper tones. I thought I'd made this tiny contribution to science. A few weeks later, I went back to show the researchers where I'd found it. The entire area, primary forest, had been cleared and burned for a teak plantation. Hundreds, maybe thousands of hectares, gone. I don't know what else was in that forest. Nobody does. That moment is part of why I do what I do now.
Cruise Panama

Three Ships I Love

The Aqua Nera puts you deep in the Peruvian Amazon with a 1:1 crew-to-guest ratio and one of Peru’s most celebrated chefs turning local ingredients into something remarkable. The Hermes brings that same level of attention to the Galápagos: twenty guests, every suite with its own jacuzzi and private balcony, and part of what you pay goes into reforestation on Santa Cruz. That matters to me. The Kontiki Wayra takes you along routes in Panama and Costa Rica that nobody else is doing, with a spa, a wine cellar, and a floating ocean deck to jump off whenever you feel like it.

Aqua Nera on the Amazon River
  • Amazon
  • Peru

Aqua Nera

An ultra luxury vessel oozing refined style, world-class cuisine and unrivaled service.
4 - 8 Days
Per Day
$5,130 USD
  • Costa Rica
  • Panama

Kontiki Wayra

Contemporary wellness-themed yacht pioneering exploration of Costa Rica & Panama's Pacific coasts.
5 - 8 Days
Per Day
$4,179 USD
  • Galapagos
  • Ecuador

Hermes

A contemporary mega-catamaran offering unprecedented luxury and transformational nature experiences.
4 - 8 Days
Per Day
$7,089 USD
Anse Source d'Argent Beach La Digue Seychelles

On My Horizon

Africa
Africa. It's been in the back of my mind for a while. We're built around small ships and remote waterways, so it would be a reach in some ways, but the more I think about a third project, it feels like the natural next chapter. We'll see what shape it takes.
See the Seychelles

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People often don't realize how dramatically the experience changes between high water and low water in the Amazon. What's inaccessible in one season opens up in another, and vice versa. Our sales team can help you figure out which combination of destination, season, and activities actually matches what you're looking for, not just what looks good in a brochure.
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