Skip to content
TROPICO
High Andean ridges above the La Cumbre pass, cloud spilling over the crest.
Cordillera Real above La Cumbre, La Paz, Bolivia · Rodrigo Garcia Saenz · CC BY-SA 4.0

Access

Why some routes stay inquire-only

Eight expeditions on this site have no bookable price. That is not a sales step. It is the honest answer when access is not ours to sell.

A published number implies we can take your money and put you on the ground. On eight routes that is not always true. A park cap, a compliance category, a community that can withdraw consent, or a security picture that moves month to month: any one of those can close the week you asked for.

Galápagos berths are assigned to vessels, not to islands you pick off a list. Fernando de Noronha caps the main island and charges a daily tax that escalates with stay. Manu's Reserved Zone is allocated, not browsed. The Cuba programmes have to be structured inside an authorised category for US persons. Darién and Mosquitia run a live screen before anyone designs a day.

We would rather lose the inquiry than sell a permission that does not exist. If the month is wrong, or the corridor is closed, the first reply says so. Sometimes the answer is a different river, a later season, or no.

All field notes · How we work