Demora um pouquinho pra chegar lá, mas após o portal você é "transportado" à vivência ribeirinha com praias de rio belissímas e pouco frequentadas. Leve tudo que precisar e vá cedo pra aproveitar bem.
A fun guide with hundreds of stories to tell, Gil is the ultimate guide for families. He is full of energy, knows the areas like the back of his pocket, and always try to find ways to make us have a good time. His english is perfect with a charming accent, which makes everything more interesting and easier for us foreigners. He also focuses on learning and knowledge, as well as on adventure, love of nature, laugh out loud fun and good home made food. A perfect combination. At our request, Gil organized a night in the jungle for our families and friends! What an adventure, truly out of the beaten path! Him and his companions brought us to the perfect spot to set up camp: Hammacks and campfire. They even built an elevated structure for the teenagers to sleep higher in the trees! Memorable. They set up a rudimentary grill to cook the fish and the meal. Finger licking good diner, in good company right in the middle of the jungle. Then at sunset time, fireflies of different colours started decorating the canopy, a way to say good night to us traveller for a night to remember in the middle of the National Tapajos Forest.
We spent few days in a little community called MAGUARY.You sleep directly in the house of the habitants in hammack and share their life : playing with the children, helping for some tasks, go walk in the forest with a native, bought artisanal stuf.All the money taht they earned with tourism is directly injected in the community organisation, school, health ...Really relaxing + eco tursim + solidarity = perfect !
Para visitar a floresta há necessidade de ter uma autorização do ICM-BIO. Mas a experiência de conhecer as comunidades ribeirnhas e a floresta em sí é única.
My first time venturing into the the Amazon forest and I wasn't disappointed with this outing. Water is available for sale before the trek and I would high recommend buying a big bottle. It is hot and humid in this place but the hike it self is not strenuous. Your local guide will take you on a 7km journey through this amazing place filled with one of the most diverse ecosystem in the world.
tem comunidades tradicionais nesse local, as pessoas são humildes mas muito gentis, a floresta margeia um Rio de águas as vezes é azul, as vezes é verde chamado Tapajós, as árvores são muito altas mais ou menos 20 metros de altura, as estradas de acesso não são asfaltadas mas são transitáveis... Para um bom passeio recomendo a vc que se programe para o verão nesta região , em torno de Julho a Dezembro, vc vai ..ADORA o passeio,, A Floresta Nacional do Tapajós fica no município de Belterra via BR 163..
Estive na época da seca, é tudo muito diferente para quem vive no sudeste e esta acostumado só com mar. A floresta é bem bonita, já modificada pelo homem. A caminhada é longa, cerca de 4 horas, nao basta a água que os guias costumam levar, tem que ter uma fruta, uma barrinha de cereal tambem. O ritmo da caminhada acaba sendo um pouco corrido (especialmente para mim que amo tirar fotos), mas no final vale a pena. No caminho, paradinha para ver artesanatos de sementes dos moradores locais, tudo muito bonito, caprichado e barato. Almoço geralmente na casa do guia da floresta e final do passeio tomando banho num igarape lindo, com direito a por-do-sol de filme no caminho de volta a Alter. Passeio que dura o dia todo, geralmente das 09 as 19, 20h. Não dá pra ir a Alter e não conhecer a Flona
Pra quem gosta de aventura é uma ótima pedida fazer trilha na flona tapajos, mas aconselho ir bem preparado, pois vai ser um grande desafio desbravar essas matas!!
After reading numerous reviews of famous Amazon guide Gil Serique on Trip Advisor, we booked a Meeting of the Waters (Santarem) and Tapajos National Forest (Alter do Chao) excursions with him during our cruise to Brazil in February and March 2014. Our Amazon guide, Gil Serique, is one of those people that truly live up to their reputation and actually deliver more than what they promise. He is the real deal, and a trip with him is a destination in itself. Although this excursion is shown at Santarem on Trip Advisor, we did this tour during our stop at Alter do Chao, where our guide Gil Serique lives. Gil met us at the tender dock with a clean, well maintained, air conditioned multi-passenger van, driven by a very safe and conscientious driver. As soon as we had our group together, we were on our way to the Tapajos National Forest. From the first introduction you know that you are in for a real treat. Gil has an immensely charming, open, enthusiastic and friendly personality that is captivating from the first handshake. He has a very good command of English, is easy to understand, and very approachable for questions. Gil also has a never ending supply of interesting and humorous stories about the Amazon, his family's exploits in the region, and everything you want to know about the history, culture, and nature in the Amazon. Gil told us by email that because of the short time available to us, and the many things he wanted to show us, we would not have time to stop for lunch, but instead he would provide some nuts, fruit, and beverages. What an understatement! When we arrived at the Tapajos National Forest, large platters of pineapple, Brazil nuts, watermelon and many other unfamiliar, but delicious tropical fruits were waiting for us to snack on before heading into the rainforest and a trip to his family's ancestral property, which is now part of the national forest. Gil showed us how rubber is extracted from the trees, and gave us an excellent history of the Brazilian rubber industry, including Henry Ford's failed Fordlandia and Belle Terra rubber plantations. Gil took us to Belle Terra on the way back to Alter do Chao after our rainforest adventure . Gil suggested reading the book "Thief at the End of the World", a novel by Joe Jackson which is a historical account of the theft of Brazilian rubber seeds which had a devastating impact on Brazil's rubber economy. It was good advice. Gil timed our trip so we had time to visit his house on the shore in Alter do Chao, where he treated us to a magnificent platter of fried fish, rice, and vegetables accompanied by wonderful Caipirinhas. If you have the opportunity to do this excursion with Gil Serique, do whatever it takes to make it happen. I also posted a review of our other excursion with Gil Serique, Meeting of the Waters, at Santarem..
Nosso passeio foi de barco pelo Rio Tapajós com paradas em praias mornas e refrescantes pelo calor da região e com um almoço caseiro dentro de comunidade ribeirinha da Flona, com visita a lojinha de artesanato da própria comunidade. Muito gratificante e enriquecedor o passeio.