The Amazon Trapeze, where Colombia, Brazil, and Peru meet, is home to several communities along the Amazon River that are able to preserve their cultural and natural heritage through tourism. Take a community to community trip in the Amazon: staying at locally run lodges, exploring the rainforest, and learning about local cultures!
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Base Price:
$422/person
Speaks: Spanish and English
Highlights
- Strengthen the communities of the Amazon through tourism, helping them preserve their cultural and natural heritage.
- Explore the Amazon River through visits to indigenous communities, full of culturally-rich experiences and amazing community members.
- Walk through the Amazon Rainforest, visiting a project that helps preserve the primate species of the area. This part of the jungle is home to thousands of types of flora and fauna!
Details
Itinerary
After arrival at Leticia International Airport, staff will be waiting to pick you up, and take you to your hotel. If there's time, you'll visit the culturally-rich ethnographic musuem, and see Santander Park. Santander Park is home to thousands of parrots. Eat dinner, and settle in for the night. Your adventure begins tomorrow!
After breakfast, you'll set out at 7:30am on a speedboat ride on the Amazon River. You'll arrive at the village of Mocagua, and take a sightseeing tour. After lunch with community members, you'll visit the Mono Churuco Miqueando project developed by the Maikuchinga Foundation. This project dedicates itself to the conservation of the primate species in the area. After, you'll return to the village to participate in a crafts workshop, and eat dinner shortly after. Here, you'll stay at a wonderful lodge hosted by the community.
After breakfast, you'll take a boat ride through the Amazon river and Amacayacu river which are bordered by the Amacayacu park and the Palmeras community. Arrive to San Martin, a community of Amacayacu, and learn about the community from an elder.
You'll eat lunch, and tour the garden center, pharmacy and maloca where the indigenous will talk about plants, medicinal properties, and their other uses. After, you'll partake in a crafts workshop with Maloka-- a community elder.
Dinner and accommodation at Casa Gregorio or Maloca.
After breakfast, depart for Puerto Nariño via boat ride. After arrival, visit of the Natutama Foundation, where you can appreciate important aspects of the Amazon river’s fauna (dolphins, manatees, turtles, fishes among other things).
Eat lunch, and visit Tarapoto lakes, full of beautiful landscapes. Return to the village and rest.
The night will be focused on exchanges of culture with elderly women who will talk about aspects of their traditions, myths and legends. Dinner and accommodation on Puerto Nariño.
What's Included
Your Local Host
EcoDestinos
Locally Owned Tour Operator
EcoDestinos offers a variety of multi-day tours in the Amazon rainforest and the communities that surround it. Through tourism, they aim to strengthen their relationships with nature and people of the regions. Explore the diversity of the rainforest and cultur
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