Amazon Clipper Cruises |
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 The vessel is well adapted to the Amazon region. Its accommodations include 8 double cabins, each with air-conditioning, shower and toilet facilities, a covered area serving as dining room and salon, with video, specialized library, and games, sun-deck equipment with reclining chairs, a well equipped kitchen with freezer, electrical power in 120 V (AC) and 12 V (DC), length 20m, beam 5 m, 1,20 m (dimensions which allow access to many remote areas), two outboard-motor canoes for side-trips. All cruises are accompanied by a specialist in aspects of Amazon biology.
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Amazon Clipper 3 |
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 Departure: Wednesdays
Duration: 4 days / 3 nights
Pick up always at 2 pm in the lobby at Tropical Hotel. Return at 11:30 am.
1st Day
Leaves the Hotel Tropical landing-stage at 2:30 pm. Presentation on board of the staff, route and facilities. Navigation to the Ariau river (tributary of Rio Negro). Canoe trip shortly before sunset, returning after dark, with the possibility of observing nocturnal animals and perceive the change in the forest as night falls. Dinner. Navigation to Açu-Creck or nearby tributaries.
2nd Day
Breakfast. Walk in the forest with commentaries by specialists. Observation of flora. Visit to a "Caboclo" family. Change to see the local way of life, preparation of manioc flour (the staple foodstuff of the Amazon), the health and education situation of children, etc. Lunch. Navigation through the Anavilhanas Archipelago. Visit to the small, isolated town of Novo Airo with opportunity to see local boat building sawmills, market, sometimes the commerce of palm-fiber and ornamental fish, and other activities. Navigation. Dinner. Night trip to see Caymans and possibly frogs, sloth, snakes and other species, depending on the season.
3rd Day
Breakfast. Navigation to Praia Grande or other white-sand beach. Swimming if conditions permit, and observation of vegetation of sandy areas. Canoes trip in Lake Acajatuba or adjacent lake domains to see typical flora (rubber trees, Brazil nuts, useful palm trees of various types). Fishing for piranhas. Lunch. Depending on water-level and wind: stop at the Paricatuba community to see old, abandoned rubber-boom buildings, now overgrown with strangler fig trees, or canoe trip in the Jacareubal area. Dinner. Navigation.
4th Day
Lake Januari. Canoe trip at sunrise for bird watching. Breakfast. Navigation to the "meeting of the waters". Return to the Hotel Tropical landing-stage, with fine views of Manaus waterfront buildings, activities and commerce. Arrival at 11:30 am. |
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| Amazon Clipper 2 |
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Departure: Mondays
Duration: 3 days / 2 nights
Pick up always at 2 pm in the lobby at Tropical Hotel. Return at 11:30 am.
1st Day
Departure Hotel Tropical landing-stage 02:30 pm Navigation to the "Meeting of the waters". Observation. Navigation in Xiborena and Careiro region to Curari. Canoe trip in smaller creeks to see life on the floodplan: jute, market-garden produce, rubber trees, as well as floodplan forest and lakes with giant water lilies (in season). This trip returns after sunset, so that we can observe night life, including caymans. Navigation up the Amazon (Rio Solimões) to the Janauaca. Dinner on the way.
2nd Day
Early morning canoe trip for bird-watching. There are good changes of seeing Hoatzins and large flocks of greets and Cormorants. Breakfast. Visit to the inhabitants of lake who live from manioc plantations, fishing, diverse fruit trees, rubber, Brazil nuts plantations, wood and other extractive products. Walk in the forest with commentaries by the specialist. Lunch. Navigation. Fishing for piranhas and others types of fish. Dinner. Night trip to see nocturnal animals, sometimes including night-hawks, snakes, Toro-rats, sloth and frogs. Navigation downstream on the Amazon (Rio Solimões).
3rd Day
Early morning bird-watching trip in the Januari Ecological Park or nearby waterways (often good for Capped Herons). Breakfast. Navigation to the Hotel Tropical Landing-stage arriving at 11:30 am. |
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