Amazon Adventures

Brazil Tours and Travel

Rio Negro & Upper Rio Negro Amazon Cruises

Rio Negro (Riverboat +)

This longer riverboat based tour is based on our classic one week riverboat tour and offers an additional 4 days exploration on the Rio Negro river. This additional time allows us to explore lesser known destinations above the Anavilhanas Archipelago such as Jau National Park. The farthest point reached is the mouth of the Rio Branco river. This tour features excellent trekking and canoeing excursions in really pristine Amazon rainforest conditions.

DAY 01 - Arrive Manaus, where you will be met and taken on a guided/driven city tour. We will visit the famous Manaus Opera House, the Municipal Market, and the Museum of Natural Sciences or the Military Zoo. Lunch will be at a typical tropical fruitbar. Afternoon is free to walk around the city, visit other museums, go shopping or relax. Welcome dinner at the Fiorentiana Restaurant. Overnight at Hotel

DAY 02 - We depart from the floating port in our boat, a classic Amazon houseboat, fully outfitted with food, drink, and crew. From Manaus we travel half an hour to the stunning meeting of the waters, where the Rio Negro meets the Amazon, but the two do not mix due to differences in velocity, density and temperature. At the meeting of the waters we often see grey and pink river dolphins, and the local fishermen. Second stop is Lake Janauary, a watershed receiving water from both the Amazon and Rio Negro rivers. We will visit a restaurant run by local "caboclo" river people and walk through the treetops on a walkway to view giant Amazon waterlilies. We might see monkeys, hawks, alligators, morpho butterflies, toucans etc. After lunch in the boat we make our way up the Rio Negro to the Ariau river just before the first of the Anavilhanas islands for some piranha fishing and alligator hunting (only photos) at night. Overnight at the Over Look Jungle Lodge (Arara river).

DAY 03 - Morning rainforest hike at Arara. Visit with the Viana family, a traditional Amazon river family. Afternoon exploration of the first of the first of the Anavilhanas islands. Overnight at the mouth of the Cuieiras river

DAY 04-09 - Depart Cuieiras and travel through the Anavilhanas islands. A variety of rainforest hikes, canoeing side-trips, swimming and fishing excursions, and visits with Caboclo river families as the boat makes it's way to Jau National Park and up to the Rio Branco river, it's final destination.

DAY 10 - Depart Rio Branco and return down river to Manaus

DAY 11 - Arrive Manaus at 12 pm, short walk or taxi ride with guide to Hotel, Farewell Lunch at Bufalo BarBQ restaurant. Transfer to airport.

Price: $2465 per person, minimum of 2. Students aged 13-19 pay 25% less with 2 adults. Children 12 and under pay 50% less with 2 adults. Groups of 4 or more reserving together get a 20% discount. Airfare is not included.

Upper Rio Negro

On the day following arrival in historic Manaus the group will fly to Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira on the Upper Rio Negro River near the Venezuelan/Brazilian border. From Sao Gabriel the group will first travel south by motorboat to magical Sleeping Beauty Mountain to visit with native people of the Curicuriari River. After 4 days in this area the group will then travel north on the Negro River past the Vaupes, Isana and Xie Rivers; the objective of the tour is to visit communities of a variety of native communities along the way. The tour will culminate with a visit to legendary Cucui Rock on the border with Venezuela. Features of this tour include beach and forest camping, canoeing, trekking, fishing, wildlife photography, local culture. The tour will end back at Sao Gabriel.

DAY 1 - Arrive Manaus and transfer IN to hotel. Welcome dinner at Bufalo BarBQ restaurant
Overnight at Hotel

DAY 2-5 - Transfer OUT to airport. Depart Manaus @ 6.30 am, (RICO Airlines)
Arrive Sao Gabriel @ 9.00 am. Travel to the Curicuriari River. Explore and/or Climb Sleeping Beauty Mountain and visit local communities

Day 6-13 - Travel north on the upper Rio Negro past the Vaupes, Isana and Xie Rivers.
Visit local communities along the way. Explore and/or Climb Cucui Rock

DAY 14 - Group returns to Sao Gabriel from the Vaupes River (40km)Overnight at the Hotel Vaupes.

DAY 15 - Depart Sao Gabriel at 9.05 am, Wednesday (RICO airlines), Arrive Manaus at 11.10 am. Transfer to IN to Hotel. Guided/driven city tour to see the Amazonas Opera House, Municipal Market and Museum of Natural Sciences. Overnight at Hotel

DAY 16 - transfer to airport.

Price is $3950 per person, minimum of 2 people. Students aged 13-19 pay 25% less with 2 adults. Children 12 and under pay 50% less with 2 adults. Groups of 4 or more reserving together get a 20% discount.

Can start on any day, depending on flights

Not included in tour cost: airport departure taxes, alcohol, tips, arts&crafts etc). Mosquito nets and jungle hammocks are included in the tour price.

Depending on road and river conditions, and client preferences, it may not be possible to visit all the Indian villages listed here. The plan is always however to visit Cucui rock and descend the Rio Negro River all the way back to Sao Gabriel visiting Bare, Baniwa and Tucano Indian villages along the way.