Day 1
Manaus / Fish market / Meeting of the Waters / Lake Tracajá
- Departurefrom Manaus at 8:00 am
Transfer Manaus → Amazon Premium Lodge · ~4h total journey / ~2h20 travel time
The journey starts at 8:00 am with a 20-minute car transfer from Manaus to the Ceasa river port. From there a 30-minute speedboat ride reaches Careiro da Várzea, passing the famous Meeting of the Waters, where the Negro and Solimões rivers flow side by side without mixing. After a short visit to the local fruit market, the trip continues by bus or van for about 40 minutes along the BR-319 highway to the Araçá River. There you board another boat for the final ~50-minute leg, passing through lakes, small channels, floating houses, native villages and stretches of Amazon water lilies, arriving around noon for lunch. In the afternoon, a motorized boat trip on Lake Tracajá spots spider monkeys, sloths, iguanas and herons, with an Amazonian buffet dinner at 7:30 pm.
Meals included: Lunch / Dinner





















