The program is for guests whom are physically fine because the arduousness makes it unique, as it shows the Amazon Rainforest to the guest in all its natural form and beauty.
For the duration of the package, guests will be sleeping in hammocks and accompanied by a trained Rainforest expert guide.
Leaving the hotel at 08:00 a.m. by car to the river port CEASA (25 minutes).
Take a speedboat to the village porto do Careiro (30 minutes), at this point, we will be passing by the meeting of the waters, where Rio Negro and Rio Solimões River meet (meeting of the waters). This is where the Amazon River is formed and from here flowing towards the Atlantic Ocean for many kilometer side by side without mixing the black and brown muddy waters. Some times as we are crossing the rivers at this point with great luck, some fresh water Pink or Grey Dolphins (Botos) surprise us. So prepare you cameras or cellular phones for photos as we stop for a few minutes for some pictures.
After a stop at the fruit market, take a bus or a van to the Mamorí River via the Manaus to Porto Velho old Road Way (60 minutes by BR319). By boat, we pass many lakes, creeks, opportunity to see also water Lilies with its enormous floating leaves and native’s villages and communities. An ideal spot for all type of wildlife: birds, alligators, fishes, snakes and monkeys. During this trip to the base camp, a creature can surprise you at any time.
Arrival at Base Camp is scheduled for 12:00 p.m. Lunch will be served, fresh water fish, beef (meat), chicken, salads and exotic fruits from the Amazon.
After lunch, there is a motorized canoe tour, which you will get to know the area better. Through this tour, you will get to observe many animals such as monkeys, sloth, iguanas, spiders and a wide variety of birds too. Dinner is served at Base Camp 07:00 p.m. fresh water fish, beef (meat), chicken, salads and exotic fruits from the Amazon.
05:30 a.m. Birdwatching Tour and then breakfast before leave for next camp.
After breakfast, guests will do a hike in the Rainforest for 4 hours. When we do get tired we stop, build camp and have lunch. After lunch, guests will leave by canoe to the next camping point in the Rainforest.
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 Rainforest at night.
As different parts of the Rainforest have different kinds of sounds at night. Participant will be able for a short period to live as a Native Amazonian jungle man.This will be a memory that will last for a lifetime.
07:30 a.m. Breakfast. After breakfast another Rainforest long trek. The Amazon Rainforest is made up of different types of rainforest, which has different eco-systems and is also the home to different species of vegetation, animals, birds and insects. As doing two different treks will help you to see and to understand better the Amazon Rainforest. Stop for rest and lunch somewhere on a tree trunk middle of the jungle.
After lunch, guests, with tour guide and canoe pilot with native jungle guide, will fish for dinner, with hand lines, nets, rods and traps. Various species of fish are in the Amazon; your guide will give you the name or names and characteristics of any fish caught.
Dinner we can roast our caught fish on the fire and enjoy around the fire telling a few legends or some fish man histories. After dinner, guests will go bow and arrow and spear fishing.
07:30 a.m. wildlife spotting tour early morning canoeing as you are saying goodbye to this wonderful majestic place. By breakfast, we will cook some of eatable fruits we have maybe collected throughout our tours visiting the local native people.
After breakfast, guests will visit an area to see rubber trees. Tour guide will explain about the rubber boom in the Amazon. How natural rubber became such an important economy for those that lived at Manaus between 1880 and 1920. Lunch at 12:00 p.m. and transfer 02:00 p.m. back to Manaus using the same itinerary.
Return back to Manaus around 05:00 p.m. Drop of at hotel or Airport you may choose where you would like drop off.
Pick up by car at hotel, guests will transfer to the port of Ceasa, where guests will leave car and take a speedboat, 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 (2) hours on the Mamori River. On the way guests will have a chance to see many different species of birds and also caimans (South American relative of the Crocodile).
Arriving at the (Amazon Guest house), 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 Rainforest 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).
05.00 a.m. 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 Amazonian people.
It will be a lifetime lasting memory.
05.00 a.m. Birdwatching tour and sunrise the best time to see the animals and the fishers of the Amazon.
Breakfast. After breakfast another Rainforest Hike – The Amazon Rainforest 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 (2) 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 and after dinner guests will go spear fishing.
05:00 a.m. Breakfast – After breakfast guests will visit different Natives Families so as to be able to see at firsthand 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?
06:00 a.m. Amazon birdwatching and all other wild life before return to Manaus as this will be our last day out in jungle. Return to Manaus – Arrival around 05:30 p.m. Drop of at hotel or Airport, you may choose where you would like drop off.
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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