Independent Traveler : The Real Amazon: Brazil

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SITA World Tours

South America & Beyond

Independent Traveler : The Real Amazon: Brazil

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SITA specializes in constructing tailor-made itineraries that allow you to discover at your own pace all that South America has to offer.

Inclusions
Included: Full board during the cruise, beginning with lunch on day 1 and ending with lunch on day 4; all excursions and visits as per itinerary; transfer by boat from Manaus to Nova Airao and back; specialized guide in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Not included: Beverages of any kind, personal expenses, tips, any kind of insurance, air tickets, hotel rooms.

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Tour Operator

SITA World Tours

Duration

4 Days

Escorted

Escorted - No

Itinerary

Day	Destination	Description
Day 1	Novo Airao	Thu Arrive Novo Airao : Arrive Novo Airao, located at River Negro. Arrival at the small villageof Novo Airao. Board M/V Desafio. Welcome drinks and cabins distribution. After lunch on board, visit to a cooperative that was founded to produce folklore art. It was founded and is maintained by a Swiss NGO. There is a possibility of buying the pieces produced there. If time permits, we can observe a very curious fact: pink dolphins being fed by the local kids. We can also find out if they will accept food from foreigners! Boarding the M/V Desafio. After dinner excursion in motorized canoes to explore the margins of the river and see the night fauna. (D)
Day 2	On board M/V Desafio	Fri On board M/V Desafio : Continuation of navigation for approximately 2 hours up the river. Arrival at Madada, a small village at River Negro. Visit to the area to know their way of life. Watch the fabrication of manioc fl our, the local people food base. After lunch, walk through the forest to admire flora and fauna, visit to the caves with ancient hieroglyphs. Then go out on canoes and test our ability to fish. Navigation up river to another small village where we will disembark. This night we will be invited to have dinner with the Tribe of the Satere Maues. Without plates, but with "cuias" where the food will be served. Purification rituals and dances will follow: the Tucandeira - boy's initiation; Curumim - girls resenting the manioc dance. Our guest will be able to participate of the rituals as long as they are totally "purifi ed", with their faces painted in the ritual colors with magical signs. The most adventurous can sleep in the camp, at the forest near the village. (BLD)
Day 3	On board M/V Desafio	Sat On board M/V Desafio : Navigation. Possibility of watching the pink and gray dolphins playing in the river. Visit to a ghost city of Velho Airao. Founded in 1668 by Portuguese religious men from the Masonry, being the oldest one in Manaus. Airao Velho was the business and commerce center of the Vale do Rio Jau and of the River Negro region. Depending on the level of the water we will chose a place to anchor M/V Desafio. Lunch will be served on land. Outing on motorized canoes passing by the main Park, Seringalzinho, with only 90 habitants. From this point on we are on no ones land!! As much as we navigate, more narrow and wild becomes our landscape until we reach the end of our journey, the Jau running waters that transforms in falls! After dinner on board, we will go out oncanoes to spot alligators, capturing one, for a closer view of this typical animal of the rivers in the area before we return it to it's habitat. (BLD)
Day 4	Disembark	Sun Disembark : As M/V Desafio navigates down the river, we cross to the opposite side of the margin of river and we go down in motorized boats by the Anavilhanas Archipelago, the biggest fluvial one in the world, as Jacques Cousteau and his Calypso, as well as the neozelander Sir Pete Blake who stayed in the region studying the local flora and fauna. Arrival at Novo Airao by the afternoon. Disembark at Novo Airao. (B)

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