Trans Amazon Exploratory

Visiting: Brazil, Peru

Trans Amazon Exploratory

As something of a first, Dragoman has pioneered the route across the Amazon Jungle between Rio and Cusco. Our new exploratory route cuts straight through the heart of Brazil's Amazon Jungle, crossing into the jungles of Peru and then climbing up the mighty Andes and onto the city of Cusco, gateway to the Inca Empire and the famous trail.

 

Free time to explore Rio de Janeiro, with a group meeting at 18:00 hrs. We stay in a good quality hotel near the beach in Flamengo.

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Today is a full day 480kms drive to the beautiful old colonial mining town of Ouro Preto where we stay at a camp site with facilities

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Today is a non-driving day with free time to visit the mine, museum or many of the baroque churches here. We spend a second night at the same camp site.

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Today will be a full driving day of around 600kms through Brazilian countryside and towns. We will find somewhere to bushcamp for the night, probably near to Tres Marias.

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We continue our journey through the Brazilian hinterland passing Brasilia en route to the town of Cavalcante where we will spend the night with the Kalunga people, a rarely visited tribe, and camp for the night on their lands.

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We head 170kms to Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park with two full days to explore the landscape and wildlife. There is time to hike in the jungle, visit waterfalls and swim in the warm springs. We stay in an eco-tourism campsite.

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We head 170kms to Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park with two full days to explore the landscape and wildlife. There is time to hike in the jungle, visit waterfalls and swim in the warm springs. We stay in an eco-tourism campsite.

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We head 170kms to Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park with two full days to explore the landscape and wildlife. There is time to hike in the jungle, visit waterfalls and swim in the warm springs. We stay in an eco-tourism campsite.

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In the morning we will have an early start and drive 230 km to Brasilia, the capital of Brazil. We will have a tour of the city with a local guide exploring this extraordinary city with its wealth of architecture and sculpture. We stay in dorm accommodation in a relatively basic hostel.

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Overland 1300 km towards the Pantanal of central Brazil, we will take it slowly to enjoy the sights and overlanding experience. We will be camping along the way.

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Overland 1300 km towards the Pantanal of central Brazil, we will take it slowly to enjoy the sights and overlanding experience. We will be camping along the way.

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We arrive into the small town of Pocone, our base for the Pantanal trip. We stay in a local,friendly hotel.

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3 day trip into the Pantanal, the vast wetlands of Central Brazil. From a ranch base we explore the surrounding area on horseback, from boats, from canoes and on foot. The final night will be spent in a hotel back in Pocone.

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3 day trip into the Pantanal, the vast wetlands of Central Brazil. From a ranch base we explore the surrounding area on horseback, from boats, from canoes and on foot. The final night will be spent in a hotel back in Pocone.

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3 day trip into the Pantanal, the vast wetlands of Central Brazil. From a ranch base we explore the surrounding area on horseback, from boats, from canoes and on foot. The final night will be spent in a hotel back in Pocone.

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The next few days will be an incredible exploratory journey across the rarely visited parts of central Brazil via Porto Velho and Rio Branco covering over 2000kms towards the Peruvian border bushcamping along the way.

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The next few days will be an incredible exploratory journey across the rarely visited parts of central Brazil via Porto Velho and Rio Branco covering over 2000kms towards the Peruvian border bushcamping along the way.

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The next few days will be an incredible exploratory journey across the rarely visited parts of central Brazil via Porto Velho and Rio Branco covering over 2000kms towards the Peruvian border bushcamping along the way.

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The next few days will be an incredible exploratory journey across the rarely visited parts of central Brazil via Porto Velho and Rio Branco covering over 2000kms towards the Peruvian border bushcamping along the way.

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We cross from Brazil over the Rio Acre and enter into Peru at Assis. Once through border formalities we drive on to Puerto Maldonaldo, the base in which we will launch ourselves into the 3 day jungle trip.

Tonight we will stay in a small local run hotel.

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We transfer by boat to the Posada Amazonas. This is a forty five minute boat ride from the Tambopata Port to Posada Amazonas and will take us into the Community’s Primary Forest Private Reserve.

Upon arrival, you will be briefed with important navigation and security tips.

A twenty minute walk from Posada Amazonas leads to a 30 meter scaffolding canopy tower. A bannistered staircase running through the middle provides safe access to the platforms above. From atop you obtain spectacular views of the vast expanses of standing forest cut by the Tambopata River winding through the middle. Now and then toucans, parrots or macaws are seen flying against the horizon, or mixed species canopy flocks land in the treetop next to you.

After dinner we have an Ecotourism Lecture from one of the staff members about the Infierno ecotourism.  

Overnight at Posada Amazonas.

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After breakfast we head to Tres Chimbadas Lake which is thirty minutes by boat and forty five minutes hiking from Posada Amazonas. Once there you will paddle around the lake in a catamaran, searching for the resident family of nine giant river otters and other lakeside wildlife such as caiman, hoatzin and horned screamers. Otters are most active from dawn to eight or nine in the morning.

We also visit a Parrot Clay Lick which is only a twenty minute walk from Posada Amazonas. From a blind located about twenty meters away you will see dozens of parrots and parakeets descend on most clear mornings to ingest the clay on a river bank. Species such as Mealy and Yellow- headed Amazon, Blue-headed Parrot and Dusky headed Parakeet descend at this clay lick. The clay lick is active at dawn, during the late mornings and mid-afternoons.

After lunch we have a Ethnobotanical tour. A twenty minute boat drive downriver leads you to a trail designed by the staff of the Centro Ñape. The Centro Ñape is a communal organization that produces medicines out of forest plants and administers them to patients who choose their little clinic. They have produced a trail which explains the different medicinal (and other) uses of selected plants.

After dinner you will have the option of hiking out at night, when most of the mammals are active but rarely seen. Much easier to find are frogs with shapes and sounds as bizarre as their natural histories.

Overnight at Posada Amazonas

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After breakfast we transfer by boat back to Puerto Maldonado.

A full days drive from the jungle brings us to the amazing town of Cusco, gateway to the Inca Empire. We spend the night in a lovely hotel close to the Plaza Mayor.

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Free time to relax in Cusco. Border information If you are leaving in Cusco, exit Peru at Cusco Airport.

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Key: (B) = Breakfast, (L) = Lunch, (D) = Dinner