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Teatro Amazonas

Prices

(21 days / minimum 2, maximum 6 persons)
€ 4.200,- (single accomodation add-on € 180,-)

Price for individual participation on request

Included

  • All overnights with breakfast in double room in Belém, Manaus and São Gabriel da Cachoeira
  • All meals and drinks, Airport/Hotel/Airport Transfers, vehicles for all surface transportation, 4wheel drive, boat etc.
  • Flight from Manaus to São Gabriel de Cachoeira and back
  • Experienced expedition guidance, reliable local guides and porters

Not included

  • International flights
  • Alcoholic beverages
  • Gratuities

All necessary documents will be delivered by courier.



Payment and reservations

Reservations must be made with a minimum of 90 days prior to departure. After receiving our booking confirmation a deposit of 50% to our German account is due. The rest is payable 30 days prior departure.



Best time to travel

October through January



Travel Dates 2006/2007

January the 7th to 27th
February the 25th to March the 17th
October the 28th to November the 17th
November the 25th to December 15th



Notes

  • Very strenuous and demanding, partially difficult terrain, recommended for experienced trekkers only
  • All participants are expected to coop with each other and to follow instructions given by the leader
  • As temperatures vary from permanently well over 30Cel during the day, down to around 10° C at night with humidity reaching 90% and more, clothing should include two set seach of shorts, shirts w/long sleeve, light cotton socks, swim wear, several sets of T-shirts and underwear,rain cape,warm clothing for the night. High leather bootlegs with corrugated sole and solid grip are recommended for hiking and solid rubber trekking sandals to ford or bath in creeks, streams...
  • Equipment: 2 backpacks (70-100/35-50 l) as main baggage is stored in São Gabriel, sleeping bag, thermoflask, binocular, photo equipment, flash light, swiss army knife, personal cutlery, hut, sunglasses, insect repellent
  • Only personal belongings (5-8 kg) have to be carried by each participant


Others

Health

  • Vaccines mandatory: yellow fever, hepatites, tetanus
    Vaccines not mandatory: malaria prophylaxis

Drinking water

  • From creeks and rapids, using of desinfection products recommended

First aid

  • Granted by guides, bring your personal medicine

Communication

  • Satelite telephone

Meals

  • Salted, smoked and canned meat , fresh fish, ready made soups,rice, pasta, dehydrated vegetables, crackers, cookies, bisquits, banana and guava sweets, coffe ,tea, dry milk

Accomodation

  • Hotel in Manaus and Pousada in São Gabriel da Cachoeira, on expedition in prepared camps and hammocks
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Traveling the unique beauty of the nature of the Brazilian tropical rainforest with its animals and plants for photography or just for pure adventure. Travel Brazil with our tailor made active nature, natural history and culture tours! Make the experience traveling the untouched and untamed tropical rainforest, its enormous spectrum of species and its complex form of life and interactions in flora and fauna. Manaus is the economic center of Amazonia. Don't miss to travel to the world famous jungle-opera, the faire and the pontoon harbor of Manaus. Explore the jungle of the Amazon on a Expedition through untouched rainforest in Brazil. Travel to Manaus the gate to Amazonian no-man's-land. Some of the animals and plants which can be observed in the Pico da Neblina national parks: several kind of toucans, aracaris, scarlet macaws, green winged macaws, blue and yellow macaws, blue fronted amazons, a great number of colourful tanagers, kingfishers, guans, curassows Theraposa leblondi, the biggest spider of the world, with a lifespan of up to 20 years, the very poisonous Loxoceles, Phoneutria and Lycosas, Latraodectus mactans (black widow), tapir, capybara, giant otter, paca, brown and black howler monkey, black uacari, spider monkey, dusky titi monkey, brown capuchin monkey, spider monkey, sloth river dolphins, piracuru, piranha, caiman, several kind of poisonous frogs and snakes, leguans, turtles Papillion, Heliconius, morphs, Aechmea aquilega, Scuticarias, Coriantes, Cataseto, carnivorous such as Hellianphora tatei, brachinnia, drosera and utricularias, caoutschouc trees, Hevea brasiliensis, Brazil-nut trees, Bertholletia excelsia, assaí and buriti palms. (Terra firme = lowland rainforest); (várzea forest = white water river forest, which are rich in sediments are highly fertile); (igapó = forests flooded by black water river). Discover adventure in national parks, Amazon expeditions, wildlife photo safari, Pantanal hiking, rainforest trekking, botany, whale watching, beaches and cultural towns with www.brazil-nature-adventours.com. Explore with Riding Brazil the most stunning Brazilian landscapes and watch fascinating wildlife on horseback: the highlands of Santa Catarina in Southern Brazil and the world biggest wetland and wildlife concentration, the United Kingdom sized plains of the Pantanal (www.ridingbrazil.com).