COMMUNITY TOURS
AMAZONAS
Our Community tours are an opportunity for you to see the famous "Riberinhos"(riverside) lifestyle, in Amazonas & Para as well as Indigenous communities in the Tocantins.
On all our Community tours you will get to see how remote communities earn a living, make traditional food of their region, or wildlife tours around their communities.
Join us in Amazonas to meet my good friends Pedro and Marcelo (father & son), and their families along Rio Urubu. A beautiful river with an endless jungle north of the river to be discovered on our Jungle tours. A river is famous for its sports fishing in Manaus, by the best of fisherman of the region.
Join us at our fishing lodge and enjoy air-conditioned rooms, ensuite with electric shower and a full board, food and drinks experience. Our guides take you out for the entire day and prepare all your meals while you relax and enjoy the incredible tranquil setting of Rio Urubu.
Marcelo leads the guides and you in search of the famous Peacock Bass, a great fighting fish, caught lure fishing, and a delicious feed.
When the river is at its highest during the wet season (June being the highest), head down and see Pedro and his family and paddle under the flooded canopy following monkeys, such as Red Howler Monkeys, Spider Monkeys, Capuchins, Tamarins, and Squirrel Monkeys. Our expert guides will help you see the resident's slow-moving sloths high up in the trees and show you the resident pink dolphins' favorite fishing spots.
After a regional delicious dinner of fresh fish, mandioca, rice, and vegetables, you head out under torchlight to visit Caiman Lake, here our guides bring you hands-on with 3 of our resident caiman species Spectacled Caiman (2.5m) or Smooth-Fronted Caiman (1.5m), Cuvier's dwarf caiman (1.5m). The 4th species that we see swim up from River Amazonas in June occasionally is the Black Caiman (5.5m) the biggest of all, and when he does the community makes sure everyone knows.
As well as the obvious attraction of Caiman Lake, there are also some incredible animals also you may see, such as huge frogs, owls, frogmouths, and night monkeys.
Lastly is the opportunity to see the famous giant Samauma Trees that grow in this region, either head downriver to a protected indigenous area to see them, our head down the winding remote creeks to river Amazonas where these giants grow in abundance.
A 3.5 hr journey along the creek through beautiful flowering trees, filled with birds, monkeys and you arrive at the communities living along the River Amazon. As you get close the water changes color and begins to show its strength, as you work with the strong currents, you finally get to see the enormous River Amazon in front of you - a river so big it looks like the sea. It is a truly memorable journey and I think everyone should see it.
PARA
We have tours in Para, in Alter do Chao where you will pass the Riberinhos of Rio Tapajos. You will have the opportunity to take photos of the famous Giant Amazon Lilypads, as well as try the various foods that can be made with them. A short trip downriver and you're in a canoe watching resident squirrel monkeys, sloths, birds, iguanas, and snakes in the trees with the residents.
Stay another day and your heading down Rio Tapajos in Jersion's speedboat, to a community to see one of the largest Samuara trees on display in Amazonia. Follow this with a local lunch of freshly caught fish, and regional food, and the opportunity to buy the local craftwork made from the surrounding rubber trees.
We can offer accommodation with air conditioning and breakfast, as well as an optional cooked dinner when you get back too if required.
TOCANTINS
Our tours on Ilha Bananal in the Tocantins, let you live and see the Indigenous communities of the Javae & Karaja people. Living on their ancestral land and practicing their lifelong traditions, you will get to see their traditional palm, wood, and clay-built homes.
Their rivers are full of piranha, stingrays, caiman as well as many other types of fish you can catch and eat.
Their river spirits bring huge dark animals out under the star-lit nights, which still bring the legend to this river. I have witnessed the power of this spiritual river, and will never forget what I witnessed.
The community tours involve hikes and motorbike tours across the island to inland fishing lakes, riding through an almost African-looking savannah environment.
Wake to the sounds of Resident Red Howler Monkeys and join the locals for medicine plant tours or a hunting trip.
Explore with Raimunda as she shows you the local school, the kid's football pitch on the dried-out riverbanks, check out local artisans for craftwork, and sit back and listen to the ancestral stories of this spiritual home.
The biggest date for the island is the week of the 14th -21st March, a traditional festival called Festa do Hetohoky, here you will see traditional indigenous dances and ceremonies performed, check our Tocantins Gallery for the incredible photos.
