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Amazon Rainforest Tours & Trips from Manaus

An adventure starting in Manaus is a great way to see Amazon Rainforest. We have 9 tours that range from 3 days up to 6 days. The most popular time for tours from Manaus is May, which has the most tour departures.

9 Amazon Rainforest tours from Manaus with 20 reviews

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Amazon Jungle - 3 Days

This was an AMAZING tour! Great accommodation, delicious food, and easy transportation. The itinerary is great- guided jungle walks, camping, and boat rides/swimming. The tour guides are very knowledgeable and made the trip a lot of fun. Met some other great solo travelers as well. Thanks for a fantastic trip!

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Amazon Rainforest Experience

Organization of and the Tour itself were excellent! I can highly recommend this Tour!

Manaus, Discovering the Amazon

4 days Unique Experience @ Tariri Amazon Lodge , Total Immersion in the Amazon on a Jungle Adventure - Brasil

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Manaus Amazon Jungle Adventure 5D/4N

While the rain forest was a bit different from expected, it was quite an enjoyable experience. Mathias was our guide and was very knowledgeable and provide a lot of information not just into the animals but survival in the forest and the way of life for people in the region. He very much made the trip extra special for me. While I arranged for a private room, I thought the cabin was quite reasonable including the bathroom and shower. The food and water were good, there was always plenty available for everyone and never experienced any stomach or other issues. The only suggestion I might offer was the communication on the trek from Manaus. I realise the 2 bridges being in-accessible made the journey unusual, but a number of us were uncertain what was happening and what we were supposed to do. We made our way fine in the end, but a bit more proactive communication may have removed some uncertainty and anxiety as to where we were to go or for what we were waiting.

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Top 10 Amazon Jungle Lodges Manaus

Most Brazil Amazon Rainforest lodges are located around Manaus, the gateway city to the Amazon and capital of the Amazonas state in the north of the country. A jungle lodge experience is a great way to immerse yourself in the wild depths of the rainforest without having to go the full Bear Grylls, getting to stay in the relative comfort rustic accommodations with the amazing wildlife and scenery of the rainforest on your very doorstep. We’ve put together a list of the top 10 Amazon jungle lodges Manaus has to offer explorers heading to the Brazilian Amazon.

Anavilhanas Jungle Lodge

1. Anavilhanas Lodge

The Anavilhanas Lodge is a fantastic option for those searching for a touch of luxury, combined with an unbeatable location in the midst of the Amazon jungle. The cabin accommodation is built on stilts, made with rustic materials and features all the modern conveniences along with Queen sized beds and private verandas boasting impressive views over the forest. The lodge is situated in an area featuring over 400 wooded islands which pepper the Rio Negro and offers plenty of opportunities for boat and hiking excursions, along with wildlife viewing.

Juma Jungle Lodge

2. Juma Lodge

Juma lodge is an eco-friendly property , designed in harmony with the environment and aiming to fully immerse guests in the forest experience. Accommodation is constructed on stilts 15 metres higher than the water line, allowing guests to witness a truly unique perspective on jungle life. Cabins are attractively appointed, offer a great deal of privacy, and it’s not uncommon to get up close and personal encounters with the local wildlife. The property overlooks a picturesque lake and is surrounded by pristine forest and waterways in every direction. There is a myriad of daily excursions to choose from, including guided forest walks, bird watching, boat trips and visits to the small indigenous communities that border the lakeshore.

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3. Amazon Ecopark Lodge

This ecolodge is situated along the River Tarumã, a tributary of the Rio Negro, only 30 minutes from Manaus. It’s a great option for families and has more of a typical hotel feel than other lodges, whilst its location in a pristine private reserve offers a great introductory taste of the Amazon jungle. Amazon Ecopark lodge consists of 22 traditional bungalows, each containing three individual suits, bathtub, hot shower and air-conditioning. The open-air panoramic restaurant is particularly attractive, and a great place to sample the delicious and varied local and international cuisines on offer. Opportunities for wildlife viewing abound here. Guests can pay a visit to the nearby Primate Rehabilitation Center or embark on bird-watching safaris by canoe.

4. Tiwa Amazonas Eco-Resort

The Tiwa Amazonas Resort is one of most accessible jungle lodges, located only 10 km from Manaus and easily reachable via a 20-minute boat journey across the Rio Negro. Whilst this does mean its location is less wild than many other options this is compensated for by its accessibility and by the pleasant cabin accommodation which overlooks a beautiful natural lake. The lodge features a sandy river side beach, pool and water sports centre, and offers a wide array of jungle-focused adventure activities.

5. Amazonat Jungle Resort

Amazonat requires travelling a little further from Manaus – 2 hours by road from the international airport. But you will be rewarded with a wonderfully immersive stay deep in the primary rainforest. The accommodation is built with environmental preservation in mind and includes 10 duplex chalets and 20 guest rooms. The lodge organises plenty of informative treks into the rainforest. Or you may prefer to ease into jungle life by unwinding at the lake beach and pool, making use of the sports facilities and massage services, or relaxing in one of the hammocks in the delightful decking area.

6. Amazon Village Eco-Lodge

This rustic eco-lodge is located on the edge of the Puraqucura river and offers a superb taste of the Amazonian environment within easy reach of Manaus. Rooms are spacious, beautifully constructed from traditional materials and feature private verandas. The lodge does not have hot water or air conditioning and maintains low battery-powered lighting, but this creates an authentic atmospheric feel allowing guests to feel more in tune with the nature that surrounds them. Available excursions include nocturnal safaris, fishing and canoe outings.

7. Amazon Lodge Amazonas

For those in search of a unique serene experience within easy reach of Manaus (at a distance of only 80km), you won’t find much better than the Amazon Lodge Amazonas – a one-of-a-kind floating jungle lodge situated right on the river. Nearby is the the Meeting of Waters, a famous sightseeing destination where the Amazon River and Rio Negro merge. The lodge offers a rustic set-up – there is no hot water, day-time electricity, or phone or internet connections. But you’ll feel the intimate connection to nature as a result. There’s also an attractive restaurant serving up delicious regional fare, complete with hammocks and caipis bar, which is a great place to unwind and watch the sunset after a day of rainforest trekking.

8. Amazon Tupana Lodge

The Amazon Tupana Lodge is a small, rustic and very charming place to base yourself for a jungle excursion, and is located 178 km south of Manaus. The accommodation is situated in the heart of a diverse biological reserve along the Tupana River and every effort is made to ensure that the dwellings (which consist of 14 rooms), facilities and tours are run in harmony with the surrounding ecosystem. The area is teeming with wildlife, so you’re virtually guaranteed to see a diverse range of mammals, reptiles and birdlife. The lodge organises packages including transfers to and from Manuas and sightseeing trips and activities such as jungle trekking, canoe outings and sport fishing.

9. Ariaú Amazon Towers Hotel

This falls more within the hotel category, but its close proximity to Manaus, combined with unique forest setting makes it a great choice for those looking for a convenient spot to base themselves either before or after embarking on a river cruise. The apartments, which contain 288 units, are connected via tree top walkways that extend for 6 miles and offer fantastic views of the canopy level. Rooms consist of a Queen sized bed, mini bar, balcony and private bath. Facilities at Ariaú Amazon Towers include two swimming pools, a convention centre, restaurant/bar, a convenient store, observation towers and a cyber café, making it a great option for those in search of a little more comfort.

10. Manati Lodge  

This lodge boasts a stunning location in the Ubim and Acajatba areas along the Negro river, and offers an unbeatable opportunity to sample the very best of Amazonian flora and fauna only 60 km from Manaus. The lodge’s capacity is small – there are only 3 rooms, which can accommodate up to 5 people – and the architecture is rustic and locally-inspired. Facilities are fairly basic, though comfortable, with private bathrooms, air conditioning and balcony with hammocks all available. The Manati lodge offers a personalised, intimate experience highly attuned to nature, with all meals, jungle activities and guided trips included in the price.

For anyone seeking a truly immersive jungle experience, we’d definitely recommend combining your stay in one of these unique Amazon jungle lodges around Manaus with a Brazil Amazon river cruise . If you’re interested in booking any of these accommodation options, simply contact us for further information.

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Lonely Plan-it: How to float down the Amazon and enjoy memorable meals around Manaus, Brazil

Oct 3, 2023 • 8 min read

A cruise down the mighty Amazon on the bucket list of most adventurous travelers. Here’s how to plan yours © Ramesh Thadani / Getty Images

It’s almost impossible to understate the allure of the Amazon .

The world’s largest rainforest enjoys myth-like travel status among curiosity seekers and adventurers – despite being one of the muggiest, wettest and notoriously difficult places to navigate on Earth.

The contrasts in modernity, lifestyle, food, nature and personality between the megalopolis of São Paulo , Brazil ’s largest city, and Manaus , the Amazon’s largest city – 2691km (1672 miles) between them, as the macaw flies – are startling, especially so for two places within one same (huge) country. You can be certain that the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas isn’t going to be anything like your home, either.

And therein lies its appeal.

Sitting at the confluence of the blackwater Rio Negro – the largest left tributary of the Amazon – and the khaki-toned Rio Solimões – the 1609km(1000-mile)-long, 80km(50-mile)-wide upper section of the Amazon – Manaus has defiantly dug in among one of Mother Nature’s most superlative environments, determined to live off a land that, while deeply unforgiving, serves up an exotic cornucopia of nature and nurture to those who respect its wonder.

A visit here is equally extraordinary: unparalleled biodiversity and feats of the natural world await outside a breakneck jungle metropolis, filled with far-flung foods, frenetic markets and river-driven way of life. Besides Belém in the neighboring state of Pará (the Amazon’s other big city of note), Manaus knows no peers. You’re in the thick of it here – and that’s precisely the point. 

Step 1: Pick a time of year to visit

More wildlife during the dry season, or deeper access during the wet months?

The Amazon’s two distinct seasons – wet (high water) and dry (low water) – offer advantages and disadvantages that anyone visiting the jungle should carefully consider. The July-to-December dry season affords lower river levels and better wildlife-spotting potential from riverboat cruises. The January-to-May wet season is true to its name, bringing on rainier days and higher humidity, along with rising water levels that allow for better tributary access via such alternative transport methods as canoes.

June is the sweet spot: water levels remain high and scenery is at its greenest from the rainy season, but rainfall drops off as the jungle transitions to the drier period. The wet season obviously yields more mosquitos (one of the Amazon’s greatest nuisances), but in reality the difference is negligible – they remain a year-round menace. From a price perspective, costs rise during the Brazilian summer (December to February), so there are deals to be had outside of those months.

Step 2: Sort out your visa situation for Brazil

Check ahead for ever-changing policies.

While citizens from Australia, Canada and the USA have enjoyed visa-free travel for tourism stays up to 90 days for several years now, thanks to fluid politics and reciprocity agreements Brazil’s visa policies change more than most countries’. Case in point: beginning in January 2024, nationals of these countries will once again need a visa (citizens of the UK, New Zealand, Japan, South Africa and the EU remain visa-free at time of writing). It’s always best to both check (and apply, if necessary) well in advance of your planned travel dates at the website of Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs or an authorized third-party visa facilitator. You will need to show your flight details as part of your application.

Step 3: Decide your desired level of comfort 

A rustic wooden ferry, or luxurious cruiser?

The Amazon is one of the world’s last great bastions of passenger river travel, and navigating the jungle via riverboat is the stuff of intrepid adventurers’ bucket lists. Boats for both travel and leisure depart Manaus regularly, running the gamut in quality and comfort. Budget motor yachts and rustic passenger ferries make up the jungle’s “highway” system, transporting residents and tourists to river settlements up and down river from Manaus. More-luxurious river cruises for tourism purposes also ply the region’s waters.

Are you looking for a refined experience or up for roughing it? The latter means stringing up a hammock on an open deck of a wooden ferry with up to 300 fellow travelers; luxurious cruises and floating resorts with all the finer things offer a more polished experience. You know what kind of traveler you are – important to keep in mind as you plan your Amazon trip. 

Step 4: Consider excursion options from Manaus and book ahead as far as possible

The Amazon is yours to discover – with some advance planning.

Wildlife and unspoiled nature have long been absent from Manaus’ direct vicinity, so the majority of the city’s visitors will be coming or going from adventures further afield in the jungle . That’s not to say there is nothing to do in the city itself – the wonderful Teatro Amazonas , a stunning belle-époque confection built during a rubber-boom bonanza, comes to mind – but Manaus is, in most cases, a (fascinating) transit point. Needless to say, the Amazon is popular – so always book excursions and jungle lodges as far in advance as possible. Here are some of the most in-demand excursions from Manaus.

Encontro das Águas

The city’s spectacular meeting of the waters – which merge but don’t seem to mix – is the easiest and most popular excursion from Manaus, its location just east of the city center making it for a perfect quick trip. The dramatically dissimilar Rio Negro and Solimões come head to head just off Manaus’s shoreline, refusing to yield for some 6km (4 miles). It makes for a wild natural phenomenon and is the city’s principal must-see, usually included on any day trip and/or passage to river lodges.

One of the closest pristine environments to the city, Rio Urubu’s intact ecosystem affords wildlife viewing opportunities aplenty within its dense flooded-forest environs, just two hours by road from Manaus. Jungle hikes, visits to local communities, overnight forest camping and a few notable jungle lodges are highlights here. Proximity to Manaus makes for a convenient option for time-limited visitors. 

Some 100km (62 miles) and three hours by boat southeast of Manaus, the Juma River unravels within a 17,000+-acre preserve that, while surrounded by ever-encroaching modernity, remains a rich and worthwhile ecosystem and preserved biodiversity hotspot. The river is so serene, folks joke it harbors a characteristic, lake-like calmness. With easy access from Manaus, it’s a popular spot, and several jungle lodges operate here. Top-end Juma Lodge comes highly recommended for its sustainable architecture and eco-forward ethos (think photovoltaic solar energy, 90% local community staff, etc). 

The preserves and parks of the Rio Negro basin

The largest blackwater river in the world, the Rio Negro is the gateway to deeper Amazonian exploration and home to several notable national parks. Parque Nacional de Anavilhanas , a half-day boat ride northwest of Manaus, is home to some 400 river islands (at high-water level, an eerie sunken forest effect makes for spectacular photos) and a jungly patchwork of nook-and-cranny-fed waterways that stretch some 130km (81 miles). Further west, Parque Nacional do Jaú , Brazil’s second-biggest national park, clocks in at 23,000 sq km (8880 sq miles) – one of the world’s largest patches of preserved tropical rainforest. Finally, Reserva Extrativista Baixo Rio Branco-Jauaperi , 500km (311 miles) upstream from Manaus, requires more determination and time to access – but those who make the effort are justly rewarded with some of the Amazon’s best wildlife-viewing opportunities. 

Step 5: Pack appropriately

Don’t count on purchasing anything you forget.

This one might seem obvious – yet it’s crucial to keep in mind that popping into a nearby shopping mall won’t be an option. If you’re going the rustic-riverboat route, you’ll want to bring cavalcade of supplies: hammock, rope, light bedsheet, dry snacks, a good book or two, extra toilet paper, mosquito net, familiar medicines, anti-bacterial Marseille soap, thin cable and lock (to secure your bag to one of the boat’s center poles), and so on. (At jungle lodges, some of those basic necessities will generally be on hand.) Regardless of the trip you choose, you’ll also want a bevy of long, breathable, waterproof clothes, waterproof shoes or boots, a raincoat or parka, sunscreen, hat, binoculars, water bottle and filter, and plenty of serious mosquito repellent (the natural, organic stuff won’t cut it here). Malaria risk is lower in Manaus and the lower Amazon basin, so drugs for malaria prophylaxis aren’t entirely necessary. Still, speak with your doctor before you make any final decisions.

Step 6: Plan out your Manaus meals

Dig into fascinating local cuisine.

The Amazon serves up some of Brazil’s best and most interesting restaurants. Reserve a table in advance at Banzeiro , a long-standing Amazonian dining icon where Chef Felipe Schaedler flips the jungle’s bounty into surprising and unique fare, including the unforgettable crunchy tambaqui ribs and an arsenal of locally driven delights. At Biatüwi , Brazil’s first Indigenous-run restaurant, Sateré-Mawé Chef Clarinda Ramos showcases the Amazon-basin delicacies of nearby local communities. And don’t miss the city’s signature sandwich, the x-caboquinho , made with curd cheese, fried pacovã banana and tucumã shavings on French bread.

If I could do it all again…

I have experienced the Amazon from all available extremes: rustic passenger boats, a midrange cruise and several luxury jungle lodges. Honestly, each option offers a unique and extraordinary experience – with a few caveats. Staring into the forest canopy over several days from a riverboat can become tedious – you don’t see as much wildlife as you imagine (you’ll see some pink dolphins in the river if you’re lucky, but most animals are hidden deeper into the rainforest), and there isn’t a lot to do besides drink and swap traveler tales. Excursions from river lodges are better, with the added bonuses of expert guides, more-comfortable accommodations, better food and a (potential) escape from mosquitoes.

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Once you have decided that you want to experience the wild beauty and wonder of the Amazon rainforest, your next step is probably to do an internet search for travel agencies that book Manaus jungle tours.

If you do this, you will likely find dozens of search engine hits for “top Amazon tours” or “the best Manaus trips,” and this can make the process of deciding who to book your trip with quite difficult. This is compounded by the fact that the Amazon is an absolutely massive expanse of jungle, so it can be difficult to know which destinations to look for when booking a tour.

Fortunately, Amazon Deep Jungle Tours stands out from the rest of the crowd, so we can help you to easily see that booking a trip with us will truly give you the experience of a lifetime.

What Sets Amazon Deep Jungle Tours Apart

Many travel agencies claim to be the best, and they may even offer tours of many different parts of the jungle. However, the Amazon Deep Jungle Tours experience is one that cannot be compared to commercial trips.

We are a local business

Unlike most of the other travel agencies that bring tourists into the Amazon, we are completely local. Our founder, Eduardo Tenhave, is a proud native of the village of Maraã, and all of the tour guides and people who work to make your excursion possible are also natives who have spent their entire lives in the Amazon.

Because we are local, we have a few advantages over any other businesses that offer Manaus jungle tours.

First, we are completely invested in the welfare of both the local communities and the natural habitat of the jungle. This means that all of the money we bring in through these excursions is able to directly impact the local villages and help all of the people who call the Amazon home to thrive.

Second, our local knowledge is completely unparalleled. Everyone in our business has spent his or her entire life living in harmony with the jungle and learning as many of its secrets as possible. This puts our guides in a unique position to help you experience the Amazon in a more authentic way. They can easily point out useful plant life and explain how various flora of the region are used as food, medicine and natural resources. It also means that our guides can teach you how to identify animal tracks and spot animals that would generally be hidden from human eyes.

Third, we have specific connections that stem from our native status. No other travel agency in the world can allow you to see and experience the daily life of the Maraã villagers, but we have this special opportunity because of our relationships with these people. The Maraã villagers have a completely fresh and unique way of living due to their proximity to the wild wonder of the rainforest. We are able to give visitors an opportunity to have in-depth conversations with the natives and learn as much as possible about their everyday lives.

We take you where no one else will

Many of the large travel agencies will have similar, standardized lists of popular tourist destinations in and around the rainforest.

These locations are typically well-known and made to be very tourist-friendly. While the areas are still breathtaking and worth seeing, they are a much more “tame” and superficial experience, sort of like watching dolphins perform behind glass versus getting to swim with them in the water. Both experiences are wonderful, but one is much more active than the other.

If you enjoy immersing yourself in adventure, then you shouldn’t settle for the same tourist spots that everyone else is going to. Our Manaus jungle tours will take you into the nearly untouched heart of the Amazon so that you can see the jungle as it truly is: untamed and wonderful in its unique wildness.

We care about you

Any business will say that it cares about its customers, but not every business means it in the way that we do. At Amazon Deep Jungle Tours, we see you as more than a paying customer to ferry around. You are our honored guest, and we do everything in our power to treat you as we would treat our own family.

We strive to make our tours affordable and exciting so that we can share our love for the Amazon with as many people as possible, and we create every experience with you in mind. We are happy to accommodate any requests or specific interests you may have, and we love nothing more than spending our days helping you to create memories that will likely change the course of your life.

The Manaus jungle tours we host are so much more than paid trips. To us, they are the best possible way to share our deep passion for the untamed beauty of our home with people who would otherwise never get to experience the amazing wonder of the Amazon.

Let Us Give You the Best Manaus Jungle Tour Experience

Whether you want to spend a full nine days and eight nights in the Amazon or simply wish to experience a brief stay of two, three or four days, Amazon Deep Jungle Tours has an excursion that will perfectly match your needs.

Our long expeditions all center around the village of Maraã and the nearby Amazon River basin, but we also offer shorter trips to the jungle lodges of Maçarico, which are ideal for those who may not have as much time available while visiting Manaus.

Regardless of the length of your trip, you can rest assured that we will fill your time with as many of the sights, sounds and activities of the jungle as we can. By the time you are ready to return home, you will have gained considerable expert knowledge about the rainforest and created absolutely unforgettable memories that will stay with you forever.

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Deep in the Amazon Rainforest, a Bucket List Trip With a Thoughtful Mission

T HE FANTASY VERSION of the Amazon that often seduces travelers—of a pristine, impenetrably vast jungle populated by jaguars, sloths and isolated pockets of indigenous tribes—does not prepare one for Manaus. A sprawling metropolis of more than two million people in the middle of the rainforest, the city is Brazil’s pre-eminent free-trade zone and home to multinational corporations like Foxconn and Samsung.

A superb vantage point for people watching is a window seat at Caxiri, a restaurant overlooking Teatro Amazonas, a Belle Epoque opera house that opened in 1896. Back then, legend has it, Manaus was awash in so much wealth that some rubber barons shipped their clothes to Europe to be laundered. Today, the crowd at Caxiri is a frothy mix of the Amazon basin’s modern power brokers: deal-making executives, government officials, NGO leaders, activists and tour operators, all trying to protect or exploit the area’s resources.

Caxiri—where starters include crispy fried piranha, fangs still bared—is the brainchild of Débora Shornik, 47, a chef who has been cooking in the region for more than a decade. “I came here to discover the Amazon,” Shornik says. “I wanted to learn something different. Here I found fruits, vegetables and fish like nowhere else I’d ever been. I also met mentors, mostly home cooks, who taught me how to use these ingredients, all of which were new to me.”

Shornik was lured back here from São Paulo by her business partner, Ruy Carlos Tone, 56, a civil engineer and entrepreneur who renovated the mansion that houses Caxiri. Tone first toured this region of the Amazon as a sightseer in 2004 and enjoyed the trip so much, he pitched the tour boat’s captain on joining forces in a venture that offers small-group expeditions.

The buzzing lunchtime crowd at Caxiri is in some ways a microcosm of Brazil’s conflicting agendas over the future of the Amazon. Some see the rainforest as a vast resource that a developing nation must tap into; others believe protecting its ecosystem at all costs is the planet’s last, great hope for staving off a climate catastrophe. Though recent trends point to a reduction in deforestation in the first half of 2023, threats to the Amazon are rife: cattle ranching, farming, logging and mining cleared 9 percent of its forest cover in the first two decades of the 21st century. Climate change has brought drought so severe that, last fall, water in the Rio Negro near Manaus fell to its lowest level in more than a century.

Tone’s quest is to take visitors to the farther reaches of the rainforest so they can see with their own eyes what’s at stake and meet the riverine communities that have called the region home for more than a century. He will take me down the Rio Negro to see the riverside lodge he built in 2014 and to visit the site of his latest project, pending construction, a property deep in the jungle.

“Before the pandemic, people from Manaus would rather fly to Miami for a vacation than drive three hours to my jungle lodge,” he says. “Today, they’re learning about what is here—and why we need to protect this place.”

On the way out of the city we cut through Manaus’s bustling market on the banks of the Rio Negro, where açaí berries sit alongside lesser-known fruits like the bright, bitter tucuma, and where freshly caught pirarucu, a massive species of river fish, are hacked down for sale or dried and preserved. Decks of enormous ships overflow with passengers, many lounging in hammocks hung for the long journey upriver into the rainforests toward Colombia, or downriver to Belém, a busy port city near Brazil’s Atlantic coast.

Tone was born to Brazilian-Japanese parents in São Paulo (Brazil is home to the largest Japanese community outside Japan). As a child he dreamed of adventure, but before he could see the world his father died unexpectedly. With four younger sisters to support, he took over the family’s small civil-engineering concern and eventually grew it into a large, profitable enterprise.

After a dozen or so years, Tone decided to scratch his travel itch another way. His expedition company, Katerre, is now run out of an office on the grounds of his riverside lodge, Mirante do Gavião, located in the Novo Airão municipality. While many of the area’s lodges resemble summer camps or research stations, Mirante’s modernist architecture evokes the wooden vessels that ply the Amazon.

Tone introduces me to Paul Clark, a Scotsman, and Bianca Bencivenni, an Italian, who co-founded a school in Jauaperi, an area along a remote tributary of the Rio Negro. The couple have lived in the region for nearly three decades, and Tone is their main backer. Clark explains that parts of the Amazon have for decades been under severe pressure from overfishing, cattle farming, poaching of endangered animals and other extractive enterprises. “When we first moved here and my daughter was born, about 26 years ago, there were over 50 kinds of fish we caught and ate regularly,” he says. By the time his son arrived, eight years later, the number of edible species had dwindled by half.

Clark helped organize a local movement that lobbied for a law prohibiting commercial fishing and later succeeded in designating Jauaperi a federally protected reserve. He and his neighbors also worked to restore a turtle population that had nearly disappeared from illegal consumption. Clark slept on the beach during egg-hatching season and confronted armed poachers in a nonviolent way, saying, “Is it really worth killing me just to get a turtle egg?”

Our journey down the Rio Negro, which runs more or less parallel to and a few hundred miles north of the Amazon River, is taken aboard an eight-cabin boat piloted by Tone’s business partner, Oziel Rodrigues. “People imagine the Amazon to be uninhabited, like a national park or a nature preserve,” Tone says as we drift past settlements. “But there are small communities all along the river, people who have been here for a very long time.” Protection of these areas was neglected during the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro, from 2019 to 2022. The administration cut funding for park rangers and other enforcement agents, allowing commercial fishing and cattle ranching to expand, largely unchecked, even in regions where such activities were outlawed. “One of my goals,” Tone says, “is to find ways to help these people, through education, through employment, so that they don’t turn to poaching or illegal fishing to survive.”

Most people living in the riverside communities of Amazonas refer to themselves as caboclos, a word akin to mestizo, signifying a mix of indigenous and settler heritage (typically Portuguese). Though it was once considered a derogatory term in Brazil, today many locals are embracing and celebrating their caboclo identity.

Leaving the big boat, we venture farther into the forest on powerboats that accommodate three or four people, or smaller wooden canoes. At this time of the year, toward the end of the rainy season, the water level is so high that, in many places, only the tips of trees are visible, and the jungle becomes known as the flooded forest.

Navigating by canoe involves paddling around treetops—venturing into narrow channels so densely packed with vegetation, the midday equatorial sun is nearly eclipsed.

At dusk we spot a flock of bright-green macaws, then a pair of toucans streaking across the sky. Our guide points to a sloth dozing in some high branches. The Rio Negro offers a distinct advantage over other waterways: The remains of long-decayed trees make the water highly acidic, deterring mosquitoes. While the Amazon River is rife with insects and traversed by cruise ships, here we eat outdoors in short sleeves and pass only an occasional local boat after leaving town in Novo Airão.

Tone has been telling me about his progression as a travel entrepreneur, starting with Katerre Expeditions, then Mirante do Gavião lodge, which offers day trips. Now he’s developing much longer voyages of around two weeks aboard a new vessel, La Jangada, “where we take visitors deeper into nature, and into the way of life of people who live on the river.”

The remote setting of his newest project, Madada lodge—about three hours by boat upriver from Novo Airão—will include spaces that front the forest canopy. Its biomimetic design is based on a structure that debuted at the 2021 Venice Biennale, in which the architecture is patterned after the surrounding flora. “Because of its location and these new kinds of structures, the idea is that you are completely immersed in the forest at the lodge,” Tone says.

On my last day in the Amazon, we visit Biatüwi, a restaurant that Tone and Shornik helped launch in a colonial-era neighborhood of Manaus. Chef-owner Clarinda Maria Ramos, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in anthropology while running the restaurant, is a member of the Sateré-Mawé, an indigenous group from the border area between Amazonas and Pará; her husband, anthropologist João Paulo Lima Barreto, who hails from the Tukanos of Rio Tiquié, in the upper Rio Negro system, runs an adjacent center for indigenous medicine. Biatüwi’s menu is drawn from both traditions and features an intensely sour, peppery fish soup served with an optional side: your choice of two varieties of jungle ant, one of which bears the distinct flavor of lemongrass.

“We are proud to be the first indigenous people selling our own food, in our own place,” Ramos says. “This is what we make at home. It’s not a formal meal. It’s restorative, healthful, natural—it’s what we serve to make people feel good.”

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