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The Amazon + Belém + Marajó Island
Discover all the delights of the largest tropical rainforest in the world...
The Amazon Rainforest is a truly wild jungle paradise. This dense jungle, still largely untouched, shelters in its bosom the richest of fauna and flora. The spectacle is partly due to its many rivers, some the size of oceans, that unfurl into igarapés, corredeiras and form sand banks and fluvial beaches.
Belém, the natural entrance to The Amazon, is the home of a beautiful collection of architecture, still preserved with its large houses, palaces and churches in the old centre. |
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It is a typical Amazon city, with forests, woods and bush containing all the abundance of fauna and flora of the region.
Marajó Island, encircled by the rivers Tocantins and The Amazon, is an attraction not to be missed. Considered the largest fluvial-maritime island in the world, its territory is covered by woods in the west, and large areas of naturally flooded fields in the east, where the breeding of asian buffalos takes place. The whole island boasts beautiful beaches and mangroves, and inland the rich local fauna can easily be seen. |
Day 1 – Starting city / Manaus / The Amazon
Arrival in Manaus and transfer to Amazon Ecopark Lodge. Reception with regional juice and check-in. Lunch. Visit the house of a local farmer to see his way of life/habits with the opportunity of going piranha fishing. Dinner. Nocturnal canoe trip to see the crocodiles Focagem de Jacarés
Accommodation in Amazon Ecopark Lodge.
Day 2 – The Amazon
Breakfast and ecological walk. Lunch. Afternoon free.
Dinner at the Lodge.
Accommodation in Amazon Ecopark Lodge.
Day 3 – The Amazon
Breakfast followed by a visit to the Monkey Forest (“Floresta dos Macacos”). This forest is a rehabilitation centre for primates brought here by IBAMA, after having been confiscated from use commercially or from illegal exportation. Here the animals are first put in quarantine to be assessed and cared for by vets and biologists. After a period of adaptation, they are reintroduced to the jungle.
Over the years since the project started, a feeding routine has been put in practice and twice a day (always at 11am and 4pm) the animals are fed. At this time, the area is open to visitors, always with the supervision of specialized professionals, who allow people to film and photograph the primates in their natural habitat with complete safety. Lunch. Un-motorized canoe trip to appreciate the local flora and fauna. Dinner at the Lodge.
Accommodation in Amazon Ecopark Lodge.
Day 4 – The Amazon / Manaus / Belém
Breakfast, check-out and leave lodge for the “Encontro das Águas” (Meet the Waters) tour, with lunch and an optional trip in canoes to fish for piranhas. Arrival at Manaus, and transfer to airport. Flight to Belém.
Accommodation in Belém in Hotel Expresso XXI
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Day 5 – Belém / Marajó Island
Transfer from hotel in Belém to the port at 5.30am to go to Soure, via Vila Camará, on the Marajó Island.
Leave at 6.30am with expected time of arrival on the island at 9.30am. Check-in to the “pousada” (small hotel).
In the afternoon, visit to a typical local farm marajoara (Araruna) from where we will go in carts pulled by buffalos to the fields to see the species of fauna like herons and guarás. We then arrive at the beginning of a small trail through the mangroves that will take us to the beach “Barra Velha” (Old Rod), from where we will go onto “Ponta do Garrote”, a sandbank between the Bay of Marajó and the mouth of the river Paracauary, to see the beautiful sunset. Return to the “Pousada” (small hotel).
Accommodation on Marajó Island in the Pousada Canto do Francês.
Day 6 – Marajó Island
After breakfast, leave in regional motorized boat for Furo Miguelão, up the river underneath the mangrove forest, which was opened by man in the first half of the last century to shorten the distance between the farms of the region.
Return to Pousada (small hotel). Afternoon free.
Accommodation on Marajó Island in the Pousada Canto do Francês.
Day 7 – Marajó Island / Belém
After breakfast, leave hotel to visit the fishermen village at the beach “Praia Pesqueiro”. At 12.30pm, presentation in the reception of the Pousada (small hotel) and preparation to leave. Start journey back at 3pm. Journey lasts 3 hours.
Arrival at Belém, and check-in to hotel.
Accommodation in Belém in Hotel Expresso XXI.
Day 8 – Belém
At 8.30am leave to do a City Tour where we will visit: the Market “Ver o Peso”, the Old City (“Cidade Velha”) with the Castle Fort (entrance fee not included); the project Feliz (happy) Lusitânia; “Basílica de Nazaré”; “Joalheiro São José Liberto” centre; Theatre of Peace – “Teatro da Paz” (entrance fee not included); the zoological and botanical park of the museum “Emilio Goeldi” (entrance fee included). Stop for lunch (not included). After lunch, we will visit the Forest of Herons - “Mangal das Garças” (with a passport which includes entrances to the Navigation Museum, the Lighthouse, the Butterfly museum and the Bird museum) and the Botanical Wood Gardens of Rodrigues Alves (entrance fee included).
Return to the Hotel.
Accommodation in Belém in Hotel Expresso XXI.
Day 9 – Belém / Starting city
Morning free.
At a time to be arranged, transfer to the airport and flight to starting city.
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Services Include:
 Transfers according to Itinerary
03 nights in Hotel Amazon Ecopark
Trips in The Amazon, mentioned in Itinerary
Meals in The Amazon Eco Park (7 meals in total)
03 nights in Belém in Hotel Expresso XXI
02 nights on Marajó Island in the Pousada Canto do Francês
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City Tour in Belém including the market, the old city, museums and parks
Trip to the farm marajoara, mangrove forest, and to the mouth of the river Paracauary in Marajó Island
Boat trip to “Furo Miguelão” on Marajó Island
Breakfast in all hotels/pousadas
Whole journey accompanied by guides |
• Hotéis/Pousadas
- Amazônia
Amazon Ecopark Lodge
AMAZON ECOPARK Jungle Lodge is a touristic, scientific and educational property, created and directed by a private initiative back in 1991, opening its doors to the public as an Ecotourism Lodge in 1995. Several streams of clear water run through the area. Over 6 miles of jungle trails including un-catalogued species, natural savannahs and creeks enable clients to explore the jungle, observe orchids and giant trees.
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Amazon Ecopark Jungle Lodge has 60 apartments distributed in 20 bungalows. Each unit has three apartments, made of concrete and wood. Each room with independent entrance, porches and bathrooms, all with air conditioning, electric showers and screened windows. The bungalows, although rustic, are pleasantly decorated and provide much comfort (night light, carpet, indigenous decorative objects, etc.) |
Belém /
Hotel Expresso XXI
In Belém do Pará, located only 80 m from the shopping mall Iguatemi, to be more specific in the neighborhood of Batista Campos; this hotel offers high technology, comfort and many practicalities, be it for executives or tourists. It boasts 90 apartments with split (silent) air-conditioning, |
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flat-screen T.V., access to broad-band Internet, Wi Fi, telephone ; fridge-bar; appropriately illuminated and custom-designed work area; electronic lock and safe deposit. In addition there is a restaurant, business center and lobby with access to broad- band Internet. |
Ilha de Marajó / Pousada Canto do Francês
| This is a brand-new pousada in Marajó with a beautiful view. The pousada has 09 well-ventilated |
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suites, equipped with fridge-bar,
air-conditioning, private bathroom, restaurant and leisure area.
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