This expedition voyage explores some of the most untouched rainforest in all of the Amazon.
It is an eight day trip where we travel by riverboat far up the Rio Negro to an area very rarely visited, exploring the mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest and in the heart of wild nature. We visit remote forests that have very few settlers so the flora and fauna remain natural.
It is important to explore the tributaries of the Amazon, since the main river has many settlers along its banks.
Over several days we will gradually explore the rainforest for up to 200 miles away from our starting point. This region has some of the most untouched rainforest in all of the Amazon.
We end the trip with a visit on the Amazon River itself, where the famous Black Waters of the Rio Negro and the White Waters of the Amazon meet.
We will visit several kinds of forest including the strange and beautiful flooded forest known by Amazon Indians as the Igapó [ee-gah-poh]. In the Igapó, the dark water seasonally floods into the forest, at times for several miles.
Orchids and bromeliads cling to the limbs of overhanging trees, which are home also to many fishing birds and iguanas. We will also explore the other two kinds of rainforest of the Amazon: the tall terre firme forest and the fantastically rich varzea forest. We will see amazingly colorful birds, magnificent rainforest trees draped with vines and carpeted with orchids, and occasional monkeys chattering and cavorting in the tree branches.