Activities in The North
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Jungle Tours
Tour operators in town offer multiday jungle trips from Alter do Chão. Most are on riverboats, where you eat and sleep onboard (in hammocks or small cabins) and stop at different locations for outings. Prices vary, but expect to pay R$120 to R$250 per person per day for most trips, with a minimum of two people.
As anywhere in the Amazon, there is no guarantee you will see wildlife; in fact, this region is better known for its flora, like massive sumauná trees and Vitória Régia water lilies, than its animal life. That said, it is possible to spot dolphins, sloth, monkeys, crocodiles and numerous bird species.
There are various options including visiting rubber tapper co…
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River Trips
The broad Rio Madeira forms the western boundary of Porto Velho. Measurements of the length of the mud-brown river usually include its main tributary, the Rio Mamoré, and its tributaries, which originate in the Bolivian Andes, making the Madeira 3200km long. With an average flow of 1.4 billion liters a minute, the Madeira has the sixth-greatest volume of all the world's rivers. It enters the Rio Amazonas 150km downstream from Manaus.
From about 09:00 to 19:00 daily, riverboats make 45-minute cruises along the Rio Madeira from the dock in front of the Madeira-Mamoré train station While not exactly thrilling, this is a reasonable way to idle away an hour or so - with luck …
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Porto do Babazinho
Porto do Babazinho is home-base for longtime local guide Sebastião de Souza e Silva (aka ‘Babazinho’), who leads and arranges a variety of adventuresome outings, from windsurfing lessons and rentals, to daylong and multiday hiking, canoeing and animal-spotting excursions, all at reasonable rates.
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Mãe Natureza Tours
Experienced agency offering recommended excursions and multiday tours throughout the area, including Lago Verde, FLONA, Rio Tapajós, Rio Arapiuns, Monte Alegre, Alenquer, and others. Operated by amiable Argentinean transplants Jorge Bassi and Claudio Chena (who lives on-site).
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Roraima Adventures
Roraima Adventures offers professional multiday camping tours all over Roraima, including Serra do Tepequém and Mt Roraima in Venezuela, and even into the Yanomami reserve (provided the proper permissions can be secured).
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Valeverde
Offers a variety of short tours (per person R$30 to R$100), like sunrise bird-watching tours and pleasant evening cruises. Valeverde has an office and daily schedule at the pier at Estação das Docas; in most cases you can simply show up.
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Amazon Explorers
Offers daily trips to the Meeting of the Waters plus nearby Parque Ecológico Janauary, where you can eat, shop, admire captured animals, eat, shop, wander short nature trails, and then eat and shop.
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Amazon Star Turismo
Organizes day trips around Belém, including bird-watching and city tours (per person R$80 to R$210), plus pricey multiday packages to Ilha de Marajó (per person R$630 to R$1020).
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Baba's Place
Remotely set in the Serra do Tepequém, Baba's Place has simple rooms with shared bathroom, and fine hiking, swimming and animal-spotting.
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Fazenda Bacabal
Fazenda Bacabal is a lodge about 140km west of Boa Vista, with comfortable bungalows and excellent horseback riding and bird-watching.
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Vento em Popa Tours
Vento em Popa, next door to Mãe Natureza, offers excursions and multiday tours throughout the area.
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Kayaking & Windsurfing
You can rent kayaks or learn to windsurf; rentals available; best wind December to May.
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