The Amazon rainforest
An amphibious or a piece of wood?
Flora of mountain rainforest
Alexander von Humboldt, actually the first to scientifically explore the region, called it hylea meaning "land of forest". In fact, one third of all existing forests are in Brazil. The Amazonian region is the largest tropical forest on the planet. Brazil holds some 3.5 million km² (or over 50%) of the total area of Amazonia, equating to 47% of the Brazilian territory. It is here called therefore Amazônia legal or "Legal Amazonia".
Amazonia, the greatest continuous tropical rainforest on the Planet. A sea of canopies that stretches as far as the horizon, crossed by meandering rivers, channels, tributaries, rapids, silent igarapés and igapós. A world of water and breathing forest, producing clouds and its own climate, a world that whispers, chirps, swishes, whistles, and caws with thousand voices, while it hosts uncountable species most of them unknown to science until today. We bring you there, right into it, where the normal backpacker and Sunday tourist would not dare to go, to farther away and pristine regions. There, you will experience the Green Paradise which for others is the Green Hell. Our Indian guides will let you know their way of dealing with the forest and river: whether aboard our log-boat canoes or on heels, passing the nights under canopies of giant trees, chatting around the campfire, marveling on enchanted waterfalls amidst the deep forest and on top of the mountains, that offer the splendid view over an universe so unique and immense that it withstood during centuries all human efforts to put it down.
Our tours and expeditions cover also the three most typical form of vegetation of the Amazonian region, which there are:
The Low Land Rain Forest, called “terra firme”
The fertile and rich in sediments várzea forest, in the areas of the white water rivers, where such endemic species like Hevea brasiliensis (Latex) und Bertholletia exelsa (Brazil nut) grow
The permanent flooded Igapó forest of the Black water rivers
Ascent to the top of Pico da Neblina
Amazonian Butterflies
A cabóclo boy
Sloth
Canopy analysis estimates that these forests host around 50 Million species, while only about 1.8 Million are known to science.
During our Rainforest excursions and expeditions you will have the opportunity to discover, to see and to feel this unique and mysterious environment first hand. We will take you to places and regions that have not been tampered with and which are not being accessed by the regular tourists. We also believe that, incongruous comfort here would divert your attention from the essential, which is to seek identification with and comprehension for nature in all its exuberance. Hammock camps in the deep forest, catching fish in the rivers, cooking on open fires, refreshing baths in crystal clear ponds or underneath crushing cascades, hiking on trails only used by the natives, studying flora and fauna of forest and rivers, learning about the culture and way of life, past and present of the indigenous people and the people who live on the banks of the great rivers and... becoming friends with them, are some of the highlights waiting for you to discover.
Our tour coordinators and expeditions leaders are multilingual. Our guides are native Indians and Cabóclos, reliable, experienced and knowledgeable.
They all take care that your stay be interesting and at the same time safe. Our aim is to provide you with a lifetime experience.