Brazil

Adventures

The Riverboat

This tour takes in as much river and jungle action as possible. Our boats are traditional regional riverboats, which are two-decked, with dining/ living/ sleeping area, toilet, engine room, kitchen, shower/wash area and sun deck. On board is your captain, cook and guide. Guides are local, registered and knowledgeable. Food includes fresh river fish, tropical fruits and regional vegetables. Accommodations on tour include: 3 nights sleeping in hammocks on boat, 1 night jungle camping (optional), 1 night with a traditional "Caboclo" river family and accomodated in the "Over Look Lodge", a rustic Amazon jungle lodge operated by the Vianas family. 2 nights hotel in Manaus, 2 wonderful dinners, 1 lunch and a city tour are also included. Itinerary.

Budget Cruise

A shorter version of "The Riverboat". Itinerary.

The Caboclo

For travellers who wish contact directly with the culture and environment of Amazonia. We are able to offer visitors the opportunity of living for a week with a traditional "Caboclo" river family. The owner's family lives 4 hours from Manaus Just before the Anavilhanas Archipelago. They are a traditional, "Caboclo" river family. Accomodation is In a 10 bed lodge which features kitchen, bathroom with shower, electricity, stand-up fans, screened doors and windows, meals on the veranda with river views, hammocks in the shade. This is an unequalled opportunity for the serious traveller who wants to "meet the locals" and see their way of life up close. We shall place special emphasis on the observation of medicine plants and their popular usage amongst the Amazonian people. All food and drink is included, as is city tour, meals + hotel in Manaus as in "The Riverboat". Tour includes a variety of trekking, canoeing and camping sidetrips, including a visit to the Anavilhanas Archipelago.

Price: $950 per person, minimum of 2.

The Canoeist

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The Diver

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Rio Negro & Upper Rio Negro

The Rio Negro tour is based on our classic one week riverboat tour and offers additional 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. This tour. feature excellent trekking and canoeing excursions in really pristine Amazon rainforest conditions. The Upper Rio Negro includes a flight to Sao Gabriel and a drive to the Venezuelan border. The objective of the tour is to combine motorboat travel with visits to villages of a variety of Upper Rio Negro and Indigenous groups (Bare, Baniwa and Tucano). Features include beach and forest camping, canoeing, trekking, fishing, wildlife photography, medicine plants, arts & crafts and tool manufacturing, Indian foods.Itineraries.

The Border

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General clothing & equipment list for all tours on this page:

shorts and t'shirts and sandals or boat shoes for day wear, swimsuit and towel (we have lodge towels for lodge use only), long pants and shirts for jungle walks, fleece jacket for evenings, rain jacket or poncho, light weight hiking boots or old tennis shoes for walks, sun hat, sun creme, sun glasses, repellent, toilet bag w/ personal items & medicines, small flashlight, binoculars, camera with flash and high speed film (200-400), small backpack, plastic bags to fit everything, underwear, socks, a nice outfit (pants/shirt or summer dress) for the city, optional sleeping bag (we have blankets in lodge and boat) - for cool nights jungle camping, optional foam sleeping mat (if you don't like the hammocks for some reason), water bottle, journal, exciting adventure/romance novel, candy/balloons/bubbles (small gifts for river children), money belt (cash, t-checks, VISA card-best for Brazil), passport, visa, toilet bag and toilet supplies (including optional malaria medicine, emergency toilet paper, bacterial crème, band-aids, medicinal talc, aspirin etc), dunnage/duffel or backpack for everything, plastic bags of assorted sizes.