International Expeditions’ tour of the Amazon River will offer family-friendly experiences throughout 2015 on its new 31-passenger La Estrella Amazonica river cruiser.  The ship even has two triple cabins and four cabins on each deck with adjoining doors.  Next year the company will offer a week long Family Amazon Cruise.  The cruise begins on the Rio Ucayali, the water land of the pink dolphins.  You will enter the Pacaya Samira Reserve (the largest wetland in the world) where your children will fish for piranhas and spot caimans and capybaras; hike and look for otters; and go head-to-head in a soccer match against local village children. The riverboat sails back to Iquitos on the Rio Maranon, and by docking time, your children will have learned survival skills, bird calls, 20 ways to cook a piranha, and how to make mosquito repellent from medicinal plants.  The cruise can be combined with time at the luxury Ceiba Tops Rainforest Lodge for an added perspective of this amazing region. The lodge provides additional rainforest hikes, canopy walkway excursions and opportunities to meet two rainforest cultures: the Yagua and Ribernos people.  Other extensions include Macchu Picchu or the Nazca Lines.