5-Day Amazon Jungle Expedition in Rio Preto da Eva with Camping

Pick up from your hotel at 07.00 am, visit the Meeting of the Waters, and continue travelling for about 3 hours to the small city of Rio Preto da Eva, which has about 40,000 inhabitants.

Arrive and visit the typical native market, where you will see local fruits.

After that, continue by car to the place where you will take a small motorized boat and navigate down the Rio Preto creek. Enjoy the wonderful views and, with some luck, you may see toucans and sloths. The boat trip takes about 40 minutes.

Reach your destination, a small and simple lodge, where you will have lunch.

At 15.00 pm, take your belongings.

Before leaving, your Amazon tour guide will give you instructions for walking through the forest.

Then, set off on your jungle survival adventure. When evening comes, you will have your first experience making fire, preparing food, setting up camp, and tying your hammocks.

Wake up at 07.00 am and prepare breakfast.

Then, leave your belongings at the camp while you and your guides go on a hike to observe animals and birds and look for food.

Return to your camp to prepare lunch.

Take all your belongings, leave the camp, and continue to the waterfall. There, you will set up your second camp, swim in the waterfall, and prepare dinner.

Your guide will tell you stories about what happened in real life in the Amazon.

Wake up and prepare your breakfast.

Then, swim in the waterfall before leaving the camp.

Continue the jungle walk back to the small and simple lodge. On the way, your guides will show you plants and trees used as medicines, and explain how to climb trees to get fruits by using palm leaves or bark from a tree to make ropes.

Arrive at the lodge for lunch.

At about 13.00 pm, leave the lodge again and go by motorized boat, navigating down the Rio Preto River to the place where you will fish for piranhas and watch the sunset. When darkness comes, you will make camp and light a fire to prepare dinner. After dinner, you will go out again in the motorized boat to spot caimans (alligators). If you are very lucky, you may see your guide catch one, and you can take photos before it is released back into nature.

Overnight.

Prepare breakfast at 07.00 am.

Leave the camp and return to the lodge.

Arrive in time for lunch.

In the afternoon, go with your guides in small wooden canoes to explore the flooded forest and observe birds and animals.

Return to the lodge for dinner.

After dinner, you and your guides will go by boat to see and learn how the natives use a spear for fishing in the darkness with a flashlight. You will also participate in the activity.

Wake up at 05:30 a.m. and go by motorized boat on a morning tour to see the sunrise, if the weather is good, and also observe some birds.

Return for breakfast.

At 08.00 am, leave the lodge and go with your guides on the second jungle walk. If it is summer, you will also have the chance to refresh yourself in a second waterfall. Return to the lodge for lunch.

At 14.00 pm, leave the lodge and return to Manaus or go directly to the airport.