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The Amazon

Life, wonderful burgeoning life… seemingly infinite shapes, colors, sounds, they move in synchrony, melt together and breathe their presence around you. Like a super-organism, the largest rainforest in the world, the Amazon, engulfs you and wraps its spectacular and intricate webs of life around you. Full of romance and mystery, you will become entwined in the rhythm of the forest like the vines that weave themselves amongst the towering trees above and cover the ground below.

We will be immersed for 4 days in the heart of this ecological treasure trove. After an 80 kilometer drive to our port village, Vila do Rio Preto de Eva, we'll board motorized canoes for the remainder of the journey up the Amazon to our ultimate destination, the Malocas Lodge. Malocas are traditional native Indian dwellings of the region and although the design is similar, the lodge is modern and is equipped with full amenities. We will spend 2 nights in the lodge exploring the forest by day and by night, because the Amazon never sleeps. We will travel on foot and by motorized canoe to delve deeper into this natural wonderland. We'll have the opportunity to swim in the big rivers and in smaller tributaries under crystalline waterfalls. We can fish for piranhas and hunt for Caiman (small alligators) at night.

The highlight of this excursion still awaits, Our 3 rd night will not be spent in the comforts of the lodge but in the forest at a campsite that we construct. We'll take the canoes to a remote location to start our survival training where we will learn how to live in the forest like the Indians. We'll learn about roots and other forest products used for medicinal purposes, we'll construct improvised shelters and cook over the campfire. We'll sleep in hammocks slung between the trees.