AMAZONAS · BRAZIL
The jungle that is not seen is experienced
These corporate experiences in the Amazon are not discovered by simply following an itinerary: they are organized as encounters with the river, the jungle, and those who inhabit it. Manaus is the gateway to the largest tropical rainforest on the planet. Those who cross it never measure the scale of things the same way again. As a DMC in the Amazon, ANDINA by Rixner designs incentive trips and corporate events based in Manaus.
RIVER · JUNGLE · FAUNA
The territory where water rules
The Amazon cannot be explained; it is explored by motorized canoe, at dawn or at night, with guides who know every channel. The river defines the schedules, the distances, and even the way of looking at the jungle: from the water, everything changes scale.
— Meeting of the waters
The Negro and the Solimões run side by side for more than six kilometers without mixing: black waters and mud-colored waters, separated by temperature and density. One of Brazil's most surprising natural phenomena, seen from very close up.
— Pink boots
Pink Amazon river dolphins, curious and sociable, on a floating platform in the middle of the river. They are observed up close or swum with, under protocols authorized by Brazil's environmental institutions.
— Caimans at night
Sunset canoe trip. The caiman's eyes glow like red dots in the guide's flashlight beam, who catches it by hand to explain the species before releasing it back into the river.
JUNGLE · HIKE · LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
What the jungle teaches those who listen to it
The walk through the Ecopark is not an excursion, it is a survival lesson told by those who live it. Orchids, centuries-old trees, drinking water, edible fruits, medicinal plants: everything has a name and a use.
MANAOS · HISTORY · CITY
The city that rubber built in the middle of the jungle
Manaus was, during the rubber boom, the richest city in South America: they called it the Paris of the Tropics. That memory still stands in its buildings, its markets, and its theater, right in the heart of the Amazon.
— Amazon Theatre
The symbol of Belle Époque Manaus. Materials imported from Europe, an enameled ceramic dome, and an interior that still impresses anyone who walks through it.
— Fish market
More than 200 Amazonian species for sale every morning. The pirarucu, one of the largest freshwater fish in the world, appears there.
— Banana market
Exotic fruits that cannot be found anywhere else, on the scale and variety that only the largest rainforest on the planet can offer.
COMMUNITIES · CULTURE · ENCOUNTER
Who inhabits the river
they have something to tell
The Amazon is also its people: the caboclos, river mestizos, and indigenous communities that preserve their traditions. Two different ways of reading the same territory, both essential to understanding it.
— Casa Caboclo
A riverside house where cassava flour is produced, medicinal plants are discovered, and life stories are heard between two rivers.
— Indigenous Village
Reception of the chief, ritual dances to the sound of traditional instruments, tales of ancestral hunting and fishing, and crafts that sustain the community's economy.
— Forest of the Monkeys
Wildlife rehabilitation center five minutes away by canoe. Assisted feeding, twice a day, with authorized observation.
AMAZONAS
River, jungle, city and communities:
The Amazon has several scales.
We know which one to show first and at what pace.
To discover the unexpected jungle.