Rio, Iguacu Falls and the Rio Negro
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Highlights:
The centerpiece of this program is a cruise into uninhabited portions of the Amazon from the comfort of an intimate and comfortable ship.
On either end you enjoy fine living at a boutique hotel in Santa Teresa with spectacular views over Guanabara Bay and Sugarloaf.
​Finish the experience in luxury as you explore the majesty of Iguacu falls from both the Brazilian and Argentinian sides.
The centerpiece of this program is a cruise into uninhabited portions of the Amazon from the comfort of an intimate and comfortable ship.
On either end you enjoy fine living at a boutique hotel in Santa Teresa with spectacular views over Guanabara Bay and Sugarloaf.
​Finish the experience in luxury as you explore the majesty of Iguacu falls from both the Brazilian and Argentinian sides.
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Explore: RIO, IGUACU FALLS AND THE RIO NEGRO
Customizable Itinerary - 14 Days (from $6,177 / person)
Day 1: USA-Brazil
This evening you board your aircraft for the overnight flight to Brazil and Rio de Janeiro.
Day 2: Arrival in Rio
Upon arrival you are met by one of our drivers and driven up into the hills to the charming bohemian area of Santa Teresa known for its artists and galleries, boutiques and quirky bookstores. After checking in you can relax by the pool enjoying the views of Sugarloaf and Guanabara Bay. You can also stroll around the neighborhood. In the evening enjoy dinner with a view at your hotel.
Dinner
Day 3: Iconic sights of Rio
Your first visit today will be the world famous Pao de Acocar also known as Sugarloaf which has become one of two iconic symbols of Rio and attracting over 1,000,000 visitors a year. To reach the summit you take two separate cable cars, enjoying the view as you ascend. You arrive at the peak which is stands 1,200 feet above sea level and offers 360 degree views of the entire city including Botafogo and Copacabana beaches, Corcovado and downtown Rio. After enjoying the view you are taken to a Churrascaria where endless supplies of meat, poultry and seafood arrive at your table having been cooked on a barbecue. Many of the options are carved directly on to your plate. After lunch you visit the other main sights, one of the most recognizable in the world. Located atop Corcovado Hill, the statue of Christ the Redeemer looks down with arms stretched across all of Rio. Reaching the statue is also fun as your board a train for a trip through one of the few rainforests in an urban location. You are returned to your hotel for a free evening.
Breakfast and Lunch
Day 4: Opera in the Amazon
From the scenic views of Rio, today you will depart for the gateway to the Amazon but you will not be sacrificing any comfort. You will be transferred to the airport for the flight to Manaus the capital of Amazonas. Upon arrival you are met by your guide and taken on a tour of the city which saw its high point at the end of the 19th Century during the rubber boom. It created great wealth but this evaporated when synthetic rubber came along. You will visit the municipal market, built at the beginning of the 20th Century, where you will find a variety of products, many unique to the Amazon. You will see the mansions of the rich and houses built on stilts and the tour will terminate at the ornate opera house where Caruso once sang. Built in 1896 it has been fully restored to its past grandeur and still hosts musical events.
Breakfast and Dinner
Day 5: All aboard to discover the secrets of the Amazon
In the morning you will be transferred to the port where you board your custom-built vessel which will be your base for the next week. During the morning hours you will cruise through the Anavilhanas Archipelago, the world’s largest river island system. From the observation deck you scan the magnificent tangle of vegetation on the water’s edge. By mid-afternoon the vessel will go beyond the frontier of settlement and entered a wilderness area. Both shores are covered by dense rainforest. You will have a good chance of observing pink river dolphins and a large collection of exotic birds. In the late afternoon you embark on the launches in search of wildlife. As strange as it may sound you can also take a swim in some of the world’s most clean and refreshing water.
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 6: A Walk in the Forest
Early this morning you explore the rainforest at the water’s edge using the boat’s launches or kayak’s each group will have its own naturalist guide. You will hear and possibly see howler monkeys and you will hear the morning serenade of toucans. After breakfast you go for a walk in the forest where you will begin to understand the ecology of the Amazon. Around midday you return for lunch and the vessel will get underway, perhaps stopping at a place to swim. In the late afternoon you will again return to the launches and listen to the sunset chorus of birds and frogs.
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 7: Monkeys and the Night Sky
This morning there will be an early exploration of the waking forest. Keep your eyes open for monkeys…on most trips we see a lot of them. Return to the boat for breakfast followed by either a walk in the forest or an excursion in the launches. Your boat will travel during the middle of the day and stop in the afternoon for an excursion. In the evening the vessel will get under way for a bit as you marvel at the night sky crowded with stars.
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 8: The Unique World of the Varzea
As you enjoy breakfast, you will cruise along the heavily forested shore scouting for wildlife. You may stop at a settler’s home carved out of the forest. In the early afternoon you will be near an extraordinary river called the Rio Jauaperi. Here you will see a kind of forest known as the Varzea. You will scout along the shoreline for some of the extraordinary creatures found only in this unique environment. Weather permitting you will have a night excursion to observe nocturnal creatures.
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 9: Exploring the West Side and the Convergence of the Waters
Today you will voyage to the west side of the Rio Negro and continue to scout in the launches and on forest walks. Based on weather and water level you have the chance to visit areas rarely visited by the outside world. Your boat goes downstream and enters an east bank affluent of the Rio Negro and explore deep into the rain forest of this small river. After a nocturnal exploration you return to the vessel where you enjoy Caipirinhas night on the top deck.
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 10: An Amazon Finale
You begin your last full day with a dawn excursion searching for wakening wildlife. This will be followed a Brazilians breakfast and one final visit to the forest. In the mid-afternoon you will begin a journey downstream to arrive late in the day at the “Encontro das Aguas” a stark several miles long where tow of the world’s largest rivers the Amazon and the Rio Negro join in a turbulent maelstrom. Here the dark water of the Negro runs besides the opaque brown water of the Amazon. This event is memorialized in the wavy lines that run along the beach at Copacabana. At sunset your vessel will turn her bows upstream to an overnight anchorage north of the City of Manaus. As you pass the city you will marvel at the scale of one of the largest and most vibrant port cities considering that it is one thousand miles from the sea. Tonight you enjoy a farewell dinner. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 11: From the River to the Falls
After breakfast you disembark and met your driver who will take you to the airport for the flight to Foz Do Iguacu which shares a border with Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. You will be staying in the national park on the Brazilian part. Upon arrival you can relax, explore the grounds or try the spa. In the evening, dinner is served.
Breakfast and Dinner
Day 12: The Falls, from all Sides
After breakfast you meet your guide who will be taking you on a full day tour of the falls. Start with a drive through the subtropical rain forest in Iguacu National Park. You will then follow a trail descending into the canyon and offering views of the more than 240 individual falls. You then take a glass elevator up the face of the cliff for even more spectacular views. You will then travel from Iguacu (Portuguese) to Iguassu (Spanish) when you cross the Tancredo Neves Bridge to the Argentinian side. Here you take a small train through the park before alighting at a walking trail with your guide leading the way. you take the upper walkways which allows you to get close to both the falls and the rainforest that surrounds them. You will then step out on a suspended platform that hangs over the “Devil’s Throat’ the largest of them all Return to the Brazilian side of the falls.
Breakfast and Dinner
Day 13: Return to USA
After breakfast you still have time to admire the falls and enjoy the flora around the hotel. You will be transferred to the airport to begin the journey back home.
Breakfast
Day 14: Arrival in the USA
This evening you board your aircraft for the overnight flight to Brazil and Rio de Janeiro.
Day 2: Arrival in Rio
Upon arrival you are met by one of our drivers and driven up into the hills to the charming bohemian area of Santa Teresa known for its artists and galleries, boutiques and quirky bookstores. After checking in you can relax by the pool enjoying the views of Sugarloaf and Guanabara Bay. You can also stroll around the neighborhood. In the evening enjoy dinner with a view at your hotel.
Dinner
Day 3: Iconic sights of Rio
Your first visit today will be the world famous Pao de Acocar also known as Sugarloaf which has become one of two iconic symbols of Rio and attracting over 1,000,000 visitors a year. To reach the summit you take two separate cable cars, enjoying the view as you ascend. You arrive at the peak which is stands 1,200 feet above sea level and offers 360 degree views of the entire city including Botafogo and Copacabana beaches, Corcovado and downtown Rio. After enjoying the view you are taken to a Churrascaria where endless supplies of meat, poultry and seafood arrive at your table having been cooked on a barbecue. Many of the options are carved directly on to your plate. After lunch you visit the other main sights, one of the most recognizable in the world. Located atop Corcovado Hill, the statue of Christ the Redeemer looks down with arms stretched across all of Rio. Reaching the statue is also fun as your board a train for a trip through one of the few rainforests in an urban location. You are returned to your hotel for a free evening.
Breakfast and Lunch
Day 4: Opera in the Amazon
From the scenic views of Rio, today you will depart for the gateway to the Amazon but you will not be sacrificing any comfort. You will be transferred to the airport for the flight to Manaus the capital of Amazonas. Upon arrival you are met by your guide and taken on a tour of the city which saw its high point at the end of the 19th Century during the rubber boom. It created great wealth but this evaporated when synthetic rubber came along. You will visit the municipal market, built at the beginning of the 20th Century, where you will find a variety of products, many unique to the Amazon. You will see the mansions of the rich and houses built on stilts and the tour will terminate at the ornate opera house where Caruso once sang. Built in 1896 it has been fully restored to its past grandeur and still hosts musical events.
Breakfast and Dinner
Day 5: All aboard to discover the secrets of the Amazon
In the morning you will be transferred to the port where you board your custom-built vessel which will be your base for the next week. During the morning hours you will cruise through the Anavilhanas Archipelago, the world’s largest river island system. From the observation deck you scan the magnificent tangle of vegetation on the water’s edge. By mid-afternoon the vessel will go beyond the frontier of settlement and entered a wilderness area. Both shores are covered by dense rainforest. You will have a good chance of observing pink river dolphins and a large collection of exotic birds. In the late afternoon you embark on the launches in search of wildlife. As strange as it may sound you can also take a swim in some of the world’s most clean and refreshing water.
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 6: A Walk in the Forest
Early this morning you explore the rainforest at the water’s edge using the boat’s launches or kayak’s each group will have its own naturalist guide. You will hear and possibly see howler monkeys and you will hear the morning serenade of toucans. After breakfast you go for a walk in the forest where you will begin to understand the ecology of the Amazon. Around midday you return for lunch and the vessel will get underway, perhaps stopping at a place to swim. In the late afternoon you will again return to the launches and listen to the sunset chorus of birds and frogs.
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 7: Monkeys and the Night Sky
This morning there will be an early exploration of the waking forest. Keep your eyes open for monkeys…on most trips we see a lot of them. Return to the boat for breakfast followed by either a walk in the forest or an excursion in the launches. Your boat will travel during the middle of the day and stop in the afternoon for an excursion. In the evening the vessel will get under way for a bit as you marvel at the night sky crowded with stars.
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 8: The Unique World of the Varzea
As you enjoy breakfast, you will cruise along the heavily forested shore scouting for wildlife. You may stop at a settler’s home carved out of the forest. In the early afternoon you will be near an extraordinary river called the Rio Jauaperi. Here you will see a kind of forest known as the Varzea. You will scout along the shoreline for some of the extraordinary creatures found only in this unique environment. Weather permitting you will have a night excursion to observe nocturnal creatures.
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 9: Exploring the West Side and the Convergence of the Waters
Today you will voyage to the west side of the Rio Negro and continue to scout in the launches and on forest walks. Based on weather and water level you have the chance to visit areas rarely visited by the outside world. Your boat goes downstream and enters an east bank affluent of the Rio Negro and explore deep into the rain forest of this small river. After a nocturnal exploration you return to the vessel where you enjoy Caipirinhas night on the top deck.
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 10: An Amazon Finale
You begin your last full day with a dawn excursion searching for wakening wildlife. This will be followed a Brazilians breakfast and one final visit to the forest. In the mid-afternoon you will begin a journey downstream to arrive late in the day at the “Encontro das Aguas” a stark several miles long where tow of the world’s largest rivers the Amazon and the Rio Negro join in a turbulent maelstrom. Here the dark water of the Negro runs besides the opaque brown water of the Amazon. This event is memorialized in the wavy lines that run along the beach at Copacabana. At sunset your vessel will turn her bows upstream to an overnight anchorage north of the City of Manaus. As you pass the city you will marvel at the scale of one of the largest and most vibrant port cities considering that it is one thousand miles from the sea. Tonight you enjoy a farewell dinner. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 11: From the River to the Falls
After breakfast you disembark and met your driver who will take you to the airport for the flight to Foz Do Iguacu which shares a border with Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. You will be staying in the national park on the Brazilian part. Upon arrival you can relax, explore the grounds or try the spa. In the evening, dinner is served.
Breakfast and Dinner
Day 12: The Falls, from all Sides
After breakfast you meet your guide who will be taking you on a full day tour of the falls. Start with a drive through the subtropical rain forest in Iguacu National Park. You will then follow a trail descending into the canyon and offering views of the more than 240 individual falls. You then take a glass elevator up the face of the cliff for even more spectacular views. You will then travel from Iguacu (Portuguese) to Iguassu (Spanish) when you cross the Tancredo Neves Bridge to the Argentinian side. Here you take a small train through the park before alighting at a walking trail with your guide leading the way. you take the upper walkways which allows you to get close to both the falls and the rainforest that surrounds them. You will then step out on a suspended platform that hangs over the “Devil’s Throat’ the largest of them all Return to the Brazilian side of the falls.
Breakfast and Dinner
Day 13: Return to USA
After breakfast you still have time to admire the falls and enjoy the flora around the hotel. You will be transferred to the airport to begin the journey back home.
Breakfast
Day 14: Arrival in the USA
