Amazon Rainforest Basin

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The Amazon Rainforest basin is about the size of Australia and is spread across several countries in South America, although the majority of it resides in Brazil. The main life source of the basin is the Amazon River, originating in the Andes.In terms of diversity of species, the Amazon River consists of more fish species than the entire Atlantic Ocean and in terms of size; the river is 200 to 300 miles across at its entrance into the Atlantic Ocean.

The Amazon forest contains the largest single reserve of biological organisms in the
world 

No one really knows how many species there are in the Amazon forest, but scientists estimate that there are between 800.000 and 5 million species living there, amounting to 15 to 30 percent of all the species in the entire world.

The forest still keeps many of its secrets. To this day major tributaries of the Amazon River are unexplored.Of the estimated 15,000 species of Amazon creatures, thousand of birds and fish and hundreds of mammals have not been classified, and after each foray into the jungle botanists still manage to bring back dozen of unclassified plants.

The Central Amazon Conservation Complex was included in the World Heritage List in 2000.

 

4 days/3 nights Package  including  the “Meeting of the Waters”

*  1st Day :

 Pick-up at 13h30 and transfer to the Amazon Ecopark Jungle Lodge. Reception with local juice after which guests will be shown to the rooms. Following visit to the Monkey Jungle.  Dinner and evening  tour by canoe with opportunity for Alligator Spotting . Overnight at the lodge.


* 2nd Day :

Breakfast followed by Nature Hike. Lunch. After a short rest, visit to the home of local Amazonian residents with fishing. Dinner and overnight at the  lodge.

* 3rd Day :

Breakfast and full day tour to the Meeting of the Waters with lunch. Following optional canoe ride with an opportunity for Piranha Fishing. Arrival at the lodge by 17h30.  Dinner and overnight at the lodge.

 

* 4th Day :  

Breakfast. Free time to enjoy the natural pools. Check-out at 11h30 and transfer  to Manaus.

Optional Over Night in Manaus :

Manaus, whose name originated from the Manaos indians that inhabited the region, is situated on the left bank of Rio Negro (Black River), close to the "meeting of the waters" with Solimões.
Stay at the TROPICAL MANAUS HOTEL and there you will find a number of activities around the hotel to enjoy your stay, such as a zoo, two swimming pools, one of them with artificial waves, five tennis courts, a volleyball court, a sauna, a beauty parlor. A shopping arcade with 22 stores offering national and imported goods such as gift and souvenir shops, two restaurants, several bars and a coffee shop, a nightclub and convention facilities with sitting capacity for up to 1,500 people. Take a chance to visit   The Amazonas theatre. It was inaugurated on December 31st 1896, and it is the most important architectonic building from the prosperous rubber period and main artistic cultural patrimony of the Amazonas State. It works regularly as an OPERA HOUSE, presenting regional, national and international events.

Contact : METROPOL DMC

 

 

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