Aventura Package

5 days (including 2 days paddling down the river)

4 nights (including1 Night along the River, 1 Survival Night)

Program

Day 1

We pick you up in your hotel in Manaus at 8h30 to the „Ariramba auberge“ located in the Rio Preto da Eva village (80 kms away from Manaus, around one hour and a half by road), in the jungle. Once arrived, your guide will teach you how to use your Indian dugout canoe in the Rio Preto river (to guide, to bale out, to empty, to go back on board).

Then you will have lunch in the „auberge“; Amazonian food. After lunch you will leave paddling along the river. Your guide will give you some explanations about the fauna and flora you will discover. Then you have to find a camp, where you will spend the night in hammock, either in the jungle or in a native house. You will cook dinner on the fire. Maybe you will have the opportunity to fish or to trek in the jungle during the afternoon (speak with your guide).

Day 2

After the breakfast, you will leave your camp for a new day paddling in you Indian canoe. You will find a place to have lunch. Maybe you could taste the matrixão or the piranha you will have fished...Then, last hours paddling before arrinving to the Malocas Jungle Lodge in the late afternoon. On arrival at the Lodge you will be received by the local staff who will show you your accommodation.

Regional dinner made of delicious Amazonian fishes.  After dinner, maybe you will have the opportunity to hear some Caboclos or Indians stories around the fire.

Day 3

After breakfast you will go on a jungle trek. Discovery of a new eco-system and bath in one of the waterfalls that surround the Malocas. Go back to have lunch in the Malocas. After lunch, you could rest a bit before leaving to visit one of our Caboclos neighbors who still live in similar conditions to their Indian ancestors. Progressively, you will learn how to survive in the jungle thanks to useful plants (to eat, to take care of yourself, to build a shelter).Go back to the lodge.

Dinner. Then you will leave the lodge with your guide to “hunt” the alligators.

Day 4 & 5

Birds observation at sunrise (please ask to your guide if you are willing to do this activity). After breakfast you will go by canoe and then by trekking in the jungle (different eco system) to another waterfall where you can take a bath. Trek back to the lodge. Lunch. Then you and your guide will  experiment an immersion  in the deep jungle for one night. You will be able to discover how you can use the Amazonian environment to survive, while respecting it. After a dinner made on the fire, you will be able to feel the jungle atmosphere at night, lulled in your hammock by the sounds of the nature….

You will leave your survival camp after the breakfast. A last trek will lead you to the Malocas Jungle Lodge where you will have lunch.

Then it’s time to say yours farewells to the Malocas. Arrival in Manaus around 7:00pm.

Observation

Your guide might switch the order of the activities depending on the weather conditions and also on your physical shape. We guarantee you that every activity will be done though.