Cruiseship Special Tours

Amazon Floodplain exploration

 

Get on a/c vehicle at port and drive to market where one can a big variety of fish and tropical fruit. We also take the chance to see spectacular Amazon River dolphins feeding. At the spot we embark on a safe and clean boat to head to the Meeting of the Waters, here between the Tapajos River and Amazon. We carry on cruising down the rivers to reach Maica River, known for his wildlife and explorers like Bates, Wallace, Spruce, Henry Wickham, Goeldi, Hagmann and several confederate families. Many species of birds can be observed here including Hoatzin. Three-toed sloths are totally GUARANTEED!

 

This trip is too intense and time is considerable short then lunch is not served but fresh fruit, brazil nuts, cashew nuts, sapucaya nuts. From March to August we can explore it by canoe( I love it).

 

Bottled drinks and fish bits are included too. After exploring quite well the floodplain at Maica river we return to Santarem cruising along the city and docking at Richard Hennington Pier located in downtown where you have a chance to "feel" the city and we get again on a a/c vehicle to visit a family of friends where we can have a good idea how people live on upland, for example rubber tapping, slash and burning, making baskets and other tools and see them making manioc flour. We return on time for you to cruise by Santarem aboard your fantastic ship.

 

 

Tapajos National Forest,Belterra, Alter do chao and Market with Pink Dolphins

 

We get on an a/c vehicle at Port and drive south on the BR163. In one hour time we reach the Tapajos national Forest where we hike on quite clean trails and a poor used road ( I love this). We also visit Terra Rica, a place previously owned by grand-parents. Here one can see my relatives rubber plantations, cocoa plantations, citrus, cupu-açu and a big variety of species cultivated in this tract of Indian Black earth. This is the very best pristine rainforest in the area.We drive then to visit Belterra, the second city founded by Henry Ford in the Amazon. Through a dirty road we reach Alter do Chao, the most beautiful fresh water beach in the world. On our way back we stop at the market and see the amazon river dolphins feeding.

 

Bottled drinks, nuts and fresh fruit is included.