A special tour for who want to explore the Amazon rainforest having authentic experiences, knowing the culture of local people, and contemplate the beauties of Amazon. This package includes amazon jungle trekking, sleeping in hammocks in our base (amazon floating house) adventure and eco tours.
- Visit Meeting of the Waters;
- Nocturnal tour to observe wildlife;
- Identify habits of wildlife that inhabit the exploited region;
- Tours by canoe to recognize flooded jungle around;
- Food preparation and preservation;
- Methods for making fire using jungle-only material;
- Contemplating the pink dolphins;
- Visit small communities around.
Pick up by car at hotel, guests will transfer to the port of Ceasa, where guests will leave car and take a speed boat, to cross from the Negro River to the Solimões River. Guests will visit the famous Meeting of the Waters (the Negro River meeting the Solimões River to form the Amazon River).
Arriving at Careiro on the Solimões River guests will leave speed boat and again travel by car for about thirty (30) minutes – forty (40) kilometers on the trans Amazonian Highway – BR319 to the Araça River. Here guests will take another speed boat, traveling for nearly two (02) hours on the Mamori River.
On the way guests will have a chance to see many different species of birds and also caimans (a South American relative of the Crocodile). Arriving at the Amazon Camp, guests will Prepare hammocks and have lunch. After lunch a little relax, after which guests will go out on a Reconnaissance Tour in a small canoe. Return to the Base Camp. Dinner.
After dinner guests will go on a nocturnal excursion to spot Caimans, and listen to the sounds of the Rain Forest at night. During this excursion your guide your Rain Forest guide will try catch a caiman by hand. The history, physical characteristics, and the gestation period will be explained to guests. Return to the Base Camp.
Sunrise tour for Bird Watching and Grey and Pink Dolphins (Botos);
Breakfast - After breakfast guests will do a hike in the Rain Forest. Lunch.
After lunch guests will leave by canoe to the next camping in the Rain Forest.
Arriving will prepare camp and have dinner. After dinner, nocturnal excursion by paddle canoe with a torch light to try to spot animals and nocturnal birds and also listen to the sounds of the Rain Forest at night (different parts of the Rain Forest have got different kinds of sounds at night).
Guests will be able for a short period to live as a Native Amazonense people.
It will be a life time lasting memory.
Bird watching tour and sunrise the best time to see the animals and the fishers of the Amazon;
Breakfast - After breakfast another Rain Forest Hike.
The Amazon Rain Forest is made up of different types of Forests, which has got different Eco – Systems and is also the home to different species of vegetation, animals, birds, and insects, as such the two (02) hikes will help you to see and to understand better the Amazon Rain Forest. Lunch.
After lunch guests, with their guide and canoe driver will fish for dinner, with hand lines and also rods. Various species of fish are in the Amazon; your guide will give you the name or names and characteristics of any fish caught. Dinner
After dinner guests will go spear fishing.
Early morning Canoeing, Bird Watching and Pink Dolphins (Botos Cor de Rosa);
Breakfast - After breakfast guests will do a reconnaissance tour of the Igapó (annually flooded forest). Lunch.
After guests will go to a native’s house (on the Tracajá Maia Guest House);
Free Time – Dinner - Free Night. Should guests wish to do nocturnal excursions please inform your tour guide?
Early morning Canoeing and Fishing for Lunch;
Breakfast - After breakfast guests will visit different Natives Families so as to be able to see at first hand how these families live along the water ways of the Amazon.
Guests will also visit a manioc farm, where your guide will explain the method of agriculture that the Natives use and why. Also how manioc is planted, harvested, and processed to become (Farinha de Mandioca). Lunch.
Short relax period, after which guests will go Piranha Fishing for dinner now.
Dinner - Free Night. Should guests wish to do a nocturnal excursion please inform your guide?
Bird Watching Tour and swim in the rivers in the fresh waters of the Amazon.
Breakfast - After breakfast guests will visit an area to see rubber trees.
Your guide will explain about the rubber boom in the Amazon, and also how rubber was harvested and processed.
Lunch and return to Manaus.
A special tour for who want to explore the Amazon rainforest having authentic experiences, knowing the culture of local people, and contemplate the beauties of Amazon. This package includes amazon jungle trekking, sleeping in hammocks in our base (amazon floating house) adventure and eco tours.
- Visit Meeting of the Waters;
- Nocturnal tour to observe wildlife;
- Identify habits of wildlife that inhabit the exploited region;
- Tours by canoe to recognize flooded jungle around;
- Food preparation and preservation;
- Methods for making fire using jungle-only material;
- Contemplating the pink dolphins;
- Visit small communities around.
Pick up by car at hotel, guests will transfer to the port of Ceasa, where guests will leave car and take a speed boat, to cross from the Negro River to the Solimões River. Guests will visit the famous Meeting of the Waters (the Negro River meeting the Solimões River to form the Amazon River).
Arriving at Careiro on the Solimões River guests will leave speed boat and again travel by car for about thirty (30) minutes – forty (40) kilometers on the trans Amazonian Highway – BR319 to the Araça River. Here guests will take another speed boat, traveling for nearly two (02) hours on the Mamori River.
On the way guests will have a chance to see many different species of birds and also caimans (a South American relative of the Crocodile). Arriving at the Amazon Camp, guests will Prepare hammocks and have lunch. After lunch a little relax, after which guests will go out on a Reconnaissance Tour in a small canoe. Return to the Base Camp. Dinner.
After dinner guests will go on a nocturnal excursion to spot Caimans, and listen to the sounds of the Rain Forest at night. During this excursion your guide your Rain Forest guide will try catch a caiman by hand. The history, physical characteristics, and the gestation period will be explained to guests. Return to the Base Camp.
Sunrise tour for Bird Watching and Grey and Pink Dolphins (Botos);
Breakfast - After breakfast guests will do a hike in the Rain Forest. Lunch.
After lunch guests will leave by canoe to the next camping in the Rain Forest.
Arriving will prepare camp and have dinner. After dinner, nocturnal excursion by paddle canoe with a torch light to try to spot animals and nocturnal birds and also listen to the sounds of the Rain Forest at night (different parts of the Rain Forest have got different kinds of sounds at night).
Guests will be able for a short period to live as a Native Amazonense people.
It will be a life time lasting memory.
Bird watching tour and sunrise the best time to see the animals and the fishers of the Amazon;
Breakfast - After breakfast another Rain Forest Hike.
The Amazon Rain Forest is made up of different types of Forests, which has got different Eco – Systems and is also the home to different species of vegetation, animals, birds, and insects, as such the two (02) hikes will help you to see and to understand better the Amazon Rain Forest. Lunch.
After lunch guests, with their guide and canoe driver will fish for dinner, with hand lines and also rods. Various species of fish are in the Amazon; your guide will give you the name or names and characteristics of any fish caught. Dinner
After dinner guests will go spear fishing.
Early morning Canoeing, Bird Watching and Pink Dolphins (Botos Cor de Rosa);
Breakfast - After breakfast guests will do a reconnaissance tour of the Igapó (annually flooded forest). Lunch.
After guests will go to a native’s house (on the Tracajá Maia Guest House);
Free Time – Dinner - Free Night. Should guests wish to do nocturnal excursions please inform your tour guide?
Early morning Canoeing and Fishing for Lunch;
Breakfast - After breakfast guests will visit different Natives Families so as to be able to see at first hand how these families live along the water ways of the Amazon.
Guests will also visit a manioc farm, where your guide will explain the method of agriculture that the Natives use and why. Also how manioc is planted, harvested, and processed to become (Farinha de Mandioca). Lunch.
Short relax period, after which guests will go Piranha Fishing for dinner now.
Dinner - Free Night. Should guests wish to do a nocturnal excursion please inform your guide?
Bird Watching Tour and swim in the rivers in the fresh waters of the Amazon.
Breakfast - After breakfast guests will visit an area to see rubber trees.
Your guide will explain about the rubber boom in the Amazon, and also how rubber was harvested and processed.
Lunch and return to Manaus.
The Amazon Trekking Expedition itinerary is suitable for adventurers physically prepared for the extreme conditions that are used during the experience, a script involving jungle survival activities, where each participant is responsible for carrying their own equipment: water, hammock, blanket, rowing, including backpacks as well as all the material needed for this adventure.
- Specialties of the Brazilian Forest;
- Explanations referring to medicinal plants found in the Amazonian Forest;
- Identify habits of wildlife that inhabit the exploited region;
- Geographical orientation on an unknown territory;
- How to get food straight from the jungle;
- Food preparation and preservation;
- Methods of building and shelters within the jungle;
- Methods for making fire using jungle-only material;
- Finding a safe place to get shelter.
08:00 a.m. Pick up at Hotel – Transfer to the river port Ceasa, visiting the local fruit market at the harbor, speedboat visiting the meeting of the waters, where Negro and Solimões rivers meet, forming the Amazon River. Arrival in Careiro village – road trip by a van on the highway BR 319.
Fast stop along the way to see water lilies: Vitoria-Régia. Then we get a speedboat to the Mamori River, we will take more 50 minutes by a speedboat trip to get our jungle lodge: Amazon Turtle Lodge base.
Breakfast and the start of the survival trip. Leave the guest lodge, and take the way for the jungle trek. All day trekking. Late afternoon, time to stop and to prepare the camp and overnight in the jungle.
Experiences of the day:
Guests will be able for a short period to live as a Native Amazonense people. It will be a life time lasting memory.
Early morning tour sunrise and Bird watching, the best time to see the animals, the fishes and Pink Dolphins of the Amazon -Breakfast and tme to another rainforest Hike.
The Amazon Rain Forest is made up of different types of primary jungle, which has different Eco – Systems and is also the home to different species of vegetation, animals, birds, and insects, as such the two (02) hikes will help you to see and to understand better the Amazon Rain Forest. Lunch.
After lunch guests, with their guide and canoe driver will fish for dinner, with hand lines and also rods. Various species of fish are in the Amazon; your guide will give you the name or names and characteristics of any fish caught. Dinner – After dinner guests will go spear fishing.
The food found during this walk will serve as a base for lunch and dinner on this day.
Overnight at the camp, and another night surviving the Amazon jungle.
In the morning 06:00 a.m. bird watching and jungle trekking. Now it´s time to move to another river and base camp. This is the time that the adventurous has to cross some small rivers, so they can get to the boat again to get stop and to prepare the camp to overnight.
After breakfast, canoeing in the small creeks but also looking for food, lunch, dinner, and anything that is possible to eat from the jungle. Time to prepare camp and before going to sleep do some canoeing again to observe the nocturnal animals and fishing, with luck we can catch some of the 2.500 different kinds of fish of the Amazon. The ACARA fish can be just perfect for lunch in the next day.
Overnight out in the jungle in tune with the Amazon rainforest.
Special canoe trip in entire the Igapós and Igarapés (small rivers tributaries) to observe birds, sloth, insects and maybe some monkeys. In the afternoon fishing for dinner: Maybe we have a chance to catch the famous Tucunaré, the Peacock Bass, piranha or catfishes. Overnight in the forest in the middle of nowhere in the jungle. A real jungle experience!
Early morning 05:30 a.m. sunrise trip to observe the black howler monkeys and the black-capped capuchin monkeys, Red Macaws, many birds are just starting to feed, a nice time of the day to see the animals. Afternoon, the activities can be combined with our tour guide, according to your preference.
After Breakfast, transfer back to base camp. During the afternoon we will try to make contacts with dolphins, which live in groups around this region. Sometimes the dolphins can approach us, but most of the time stay a certain distance. This tour it is a very special moment to contemplate the rich biodiversity of Amazon rainforest.
After breakfast, in the morning, visit to the rubber and manioc plantations and go there to see the process making manioc flour. Evening a big dinner with family, barbecue and some caipirinhas to celebrate the success of the adventure and the last night at Amazon Turtle Lodge.
Special canoe trip in entire the Igapós and Igarapés (small rivers tributaries) to observe birds, sloth, insects and maybe some monkeys. In the afternoon fishing for dinner: Maybe we have a chance to catch the famous Tucunaré, the Peacock Bass, piranha or catfishes. Overnight in the forest in the middle of nowhere in the jungle. A real jungle experience!
- Transfers In and Out to the Amazon Turtle Lodge;
- Private bungalow (SGL/DBL/TPL);
- Accommodation on beds with mosquito nets;
- All meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner);
- During meals: mineral water and seasonal fruit juices;
- All tours mentioned on programme;
- English or Spanish speaking tour guides.
- Travel insurance of any kind;
- Alcoholic beverages, such as beer and wine, which can be arranged per your request for moderate consumption.
We recommend a medium Backpack, which will be used during your jungle adventure, with the following items:
We will need copies of the picture page of your passport and vaccination cards. Recommended that you take the yellow fever shot and bring medications for any existing previous conditions you may have. I am personally against taking the malaria pill, and there is no proof of its effectiveness.
The side effects can also be greater than the symptoms sometimes, and there are very few cases detected in a single year, but it this is ultimately your choice. Please let us know of any existing conditions you may have that we should be aware of, such as allergies, diabetes, heart and blood pressure problems. We will keep this information confidential.
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