Amazon Adventure

Detailed Itinerary

Day One - Start of Your Holiday in Brazil

You will land in Rio on an evening flight as you begin your holiday in Brazil! We'll be there to meet you at the airport and drive you to your hotel in the stylish Copacabana area of the city - once you're settled in, you might want to take a walk along the waterfront or take in an evening meal on your first night here in Rio. Of course, since this is your first night on holiday in Brazil, Copacabana is a great place for a night out if you're feeling up to it. (Breakfast Included)

Day Two - Tour of Rio: Corcovado and Tijuca National Park

You'll have some free time this morning to recover from your journey, and then this afternoon we will pick you up from your hotel and drive through Rio to the base of Mt. Corcovado. Here we will board a funicular railway which carries us up through the dense Tijuca Atlantic Rainforest to the top of the mountain and the base of the famous Christ the Redeemer statue that has become one of the most famous symbols of Rio, and indeed Brazil. The views over the city from the top are absolutely amazing and it's the perfect way to get your bearings and pick out where to visit next. (B)

Day Three - Sugarloaf Mountain

After a free morning to explore Copacabana, we’ll pick you up from your hotel and take you for a tour through downtown Rio. You will pass the famous Sambadrome, which is the heart of Rio’s annual Carnaval celebrations, and the Metropolitan Cathedral, which stands like an immense 80-metre-high pyramid. We will also enjoy some of the republican and old colonial buildings such as the Municipal Theater, the National Library and the National Museum of Fine Arts. We will finish this section of the tour in the neighbourhood of Urca, at the foot of the iconic Sugar Loaf Mountain, where we will board a cable-car heading first to Urca Hill. Here, at a vantage point of 215 meters, we’ll have beautiful views of Guanabara Bay and its islands, the Rio-Niterói Bridge, and Corcovado Mountain. A second cable car takes us the all the way to the top of Sugarloaf, from where you can enjoy the amazing view of Rio spread before you, with its hills, beaches, favelas and bays. (B)

Day Four - Your Amazon Adventure Begins

It's time to leave the modern world behind for a while as we take you into the Amazon jungle. We'll catch a flight to the jungle city of Manaus and from here we'll board motorized canoes to head downriver to the Amazon Ecopark Lodge. This comfortable jungle lodge is located on a tributary of the Amazon itself, and offers great access to the rainforest so we won't waste any time! As soon as you've unpacked and settled in, we'll make our first trip into the jungle to spot some monkeys! After returning to lodge for dinner, we'll go out for another evening excursion on the river, searching for the elusive caiman. (B/L/D)

Day Five - the Amazon Rainforest

After breakfast this morning we will go for a hike through the jungle to allow us to get up close to as much wildlife as possible. Our expert local guides will make sure you don't miss a thing. In the afternoon we will have a visit to an indigenous community who will show us how they live with the rainforest and how it provides them not only with food but with medicines and other materials before we return to the lodge for dinner. (B/L/D)

Day Six - Meeting of the Waters

We will be away from the lodge for the whole day today, as we travel upriver to where the dark Rio Negro and the coffee-coloured Rio Solimôes meet to form the Amazon proper. During the day we also hope to see animals such as both grey and pink river dolphins, as well as having a chance to go fishing for piranhas! After a full day exploring the river, we will return to the lodge for dinner. (B/L/D)

Day Seven - On to Iguazu

Once you’ve enjoyed a final jungle breakfast this morning, we will board the boats to take us back to Manaus, where we will catch a flight out of the jungle. We'll be heading right to the south of Brazil, to the town of Foz do Iguacu. We'll be there to meet you and take you to your hotel in this small town, which is the jumping-off point for visits to the amazing Iguazu Falls. You'll arrive in the early evening so you will have some time to wander around and enjoy the laidback atmosphere of Foz do Iguacu. (B)

Day Eight - Iguazu Falls

Today you will enjoy your tour of the fantastic Iguazu Falls. Higher than Niagara Falls, and wider than Victoria Falls, Iguazu will take your breath away with its spectacular beauty and awesome power! We will visit today from the Brazilian side, where a long walkway along the canyon top allows you to appreciate the true scale of Iguazu from above. You’ll get some fantastic photos, as you work your way along to a viewpoint giving you a panoramic vista of the famous Devil’s Throat, where 14 separate falls combine in a single 350-foot drop, sending spray over 100 feet into the air for a dramatic permanent rainbow. (B)

Day Nine - Back to Rio

We'll leave you with a free morning today so you can just relax and wander around Foz. If you prefer, of course, you could nip across the border to Argentina or Paraguay for some shopping and to get an extra stamp in your passport! In the afternoon we will take you back to the airport for the short flight back to Rio and your last night in Brazil. (B)

Day Ten - Last Day of Your Holiday in Brazil

We have left your last day on holiday in Brazil free for you to explore on your own. A last chance to do some souvenir shopping, perhaps? If you'd prefer us to organise something for you, of course, we'd be more than happy to. Most international flights for the UK leave at night so we will pick you up from your hotel in the evening to make sure your Brazilian holiday ends perfectly by getting to the airport in plenty of time to catch the flight back home. (B)

What's Included?

Our standard price for this holiday in Brazil is £2350 per person, which is based on two sharing a double or twin room in our standard hotels and jungle lodge.

That price includes all your accommodation, internal transport, transfers, tours, guides and entrance fees, plus all meals in the Amazon and breakfast every day.

We don't have any "local payments" or sneaky charges: everything you have read about on this itinerary is included in that price. And because everything we do is tailor-made, we don't have fixed departure dates or minimum numbers for our trips. Outside of national holidays or other special events, this price is valid for the whole of 2020.

International flights

So with the exception of a few meals, everything on your holiday is included. What we don't include as standard is your international flights, because with these you have a huge range of options depending on the date you want to travel, the route you want to fly, and your preferred departure airport in the UK.

We aren't tied to any particular airline, and we will be delighted to discuss all options with you, or you can even book the flights yourself if you prefer: it's totally up to you.