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Travel Weekly Editor in Chief Arnie Weissmann recently joined a jungle cruise offered by G Adventures on the Peruvian Amazon aboard the Queen Violetta, a riverboat leased by the operator earlier this year. Pictured here, a sunset over the Amazon. TW photos by Arnie Weissmann

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An Amazon adventure

Travel Weekly Editor in Chief Arnie Weissmann recently joined a jungle cruise offered by G Adventures on the Peruvian Amazon aboard the Queen Violetta, a riverboat leased by the operator earlier this year. Pictured here, a sunset over the Amazon. TW photos by Arnie Weissmann

Travel Weekly Editor in Chief Arnie Weissmann recently joined a jungle cruise offered by G Adventures on the Peruvian Amazon aboard the Queen Violetta, a riverboat leased by the operator earlier this year. Pictured here, a sunset over the Amazon. TW photos by Arnie Weissmann

The Queen Violetta, alongshore at sunset.

The Amazon River town of Nauta, as seen from a deck on the Queen Violetta.

Activity along the banks of the Amazon town of Nauta.

A flock of great white egrets settle in a swampy clearing off a tributary of the Amazon.

A tiny poison dart frog rests on the palm of the hand of a G Adventures guide.

Scott Bahr, vice president of product development and strategic alliances for Marriott Vacations Worldwide, displays a small piranha he caught.

But as you can see here, there is nothing small about its teeth.

A G Adventures guide, holds a fruit-eating piranha caught by a local fisherman (right), while Vacation.com's Christine James snaps a photo.

The day's catch.

Guests had an opportunity to swim in the Amazon during the trip. Although the group had gone piranha fishing earlier that same morning, everyone returned to the boat safe and sound.

A G Adventures guide holds a 15-foot anaconda's head down with a forked stick while a guest holds on to the tail.

The snake's head.

A brown capuchin, at right, approaches a resting howler monkey.

An Amazon adventure

A local family that has gathered turtle eggs in its dugout canoe. The eggs will be turned over to conservation officials for protection.

A fisherman paddles upstream on a tributary of the Amazon.

The children on the trip helped prepare lunch at a local village.

The group visited a local school, met the students and dropped off supplies.

The skiff that took passengers from the Queen Violetta to explore the Amazon's smaller tributaries.

An iguana sunning itself on an upper tree branch.

A capped heron.

G Adventures founder Bruce Poon Tip

Industry executives gather on the Queen Violetta with G Adventures founder Bruce Poon Tip. Front row, (L to R), Karryn Christopher, Signature Travel Network and Glenn Wells, Merit. Middle row, Christine James, Vacation.com; Poon Tip; Denise Harper, G Adventures director of sales, Canada; Tiffany Glass, Vacation.com; and Nicole Mazza, TravelSavers. Back row, Ron Fenska, G Adventures director of sales; Pelin Karaca, Holbrook Travel; Scott Bahr, Marriott Vacations Worldwide; Lindsay Pearlman, Ensemble Travel Group; and Joe Winheim, Travel Tix.