Prepare yourself for a unique and transformative journey deep into the Amazon. In partnership with the Associação Floresta Protegida and the Kayapó People of the Kayapó Indigenous Territory, Untamed Amazon proudly introduces the ECO 2025 Season, taking place in July and August.
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Itinerary - 5 days | 4 nights
Day 1 - Arrival at the lodge
Transfer from the airport where you will catch your charter flight to Xingu Lodge. Upon arrival, you will be greeted by your host with signature cocktails. After settling in, our manager will provide a brief tour of the property with an orientation session and an introduction to the team, made up of Brazilian and Kayapó members. Depending on your arrival time, you will have an afternoon of activities with a short walk on the jungle trail and a magnificent sunset.
Accommodation at Xingu Lodge is 4 double rooms, each with box-spring beds, private bathroom, hot water and electricity. The lodge is located on the banks of the Xingu River, overlooking a beautiful rapid and a swimming beach. Every evening our chef will present guests with a gourmet dish in our dining room.
Day 2 - Wildlife with warriors
After breakfast, we set off on one of the many trails through the forest that lead to areas of biological or cultural importance. Depending on your interest and experience, the trail can explore Brazil nut forests, ancient villages, lagoons, hunting grounds, animal viewing and much more.
Kayapó warriors and elders have incredible knowledge of the natural and cultural history of the region. During the interpretive walk, Kayapó guides will share knowledge about plants and help you spot and track different species, such as blue macaws, spider monkeys, jaguars, peccaries, tapirs or other small animals.
Lunch will be served back at the lodge. After lunch, enjoy some leisure time. Time to swim in the mighty Xingu or relax in a hammock. After lunch, head out with your guides on a boat safari along the Xingu River, in search of giant otters, peccaries, and kingfishers. End the evening with cocktails and appetizers at the lodge, followed by a delicious dinner prepared by the lodge's chef.
After dinner, listen and learn about the Kayapó Project through a brief presentation from your guides on how the Kayapo conserve and defend their incredible territory against illegal deforestation.
Day 3 - Kayapó Culture
After breakfast, enjoy a guided tour of the Kayapó village. The focus of the day will be learning more about their way of life. First, visit a vegetable garden and learn how they plant, harvest and process cassava root into flour, one of the staples of their traditional diet. Together with the Kayapó, you can help prepare a traditional dish, called Berarubu, where fresh fish and cassava flour are wrapped in banana leaves and roasted under the fire.
While the food is not ready, spend some time with the Kayapó women as they demonstrate one of the most iconic elements of their tradition – body painting – using natural dyes from Amazonian plants Jenipapo and Urucum. Try painting yourself before tasting the traditional food you helped prepare.
In the village, you may have the opportunity to spend the afternoon with Kayapó artisans making beads, working in wood or making baskets, shooting a bow and arrow, learning songs and dances, playing traditional (and contemporary) sports, learning the language or giving a refreshing dip. After dinner at the Lodge, enjoy a bonfire on the beach and hear some Kayapó stories and cosmology.
Day 4 - Fishing and wildlife
After breakfast at the lodge, head out with your guides for another wildlife viewing excursion. Traveling upriver by boat, you will explore the narrow channels and tributaries of the Xingu River in search of birds, monkeys and other mammals. Experience how the Kayapó fish in the river using a hand line. Try your luck at return fishing using hand line, bait or fly fishing techniques.
For lunch, your guides will prepare a riverside picnic with fresh fish.
Interested guests can go on a hike with Kayapó youth to see and learn about their camera trap project. Otherwise, return to the lodge for appetizers at sunset.
After dinner, young Kayapó photographers and filmmakers will present their incredible work, including photos, camera and audio traps, and short films about their culture, lifestyle and environment.
Day 5 - Craft fair and farewell
Enjoy a final breakfast at Xingu Lodge. After breakfast, participate in a crafts fair and take home bracelets, baskets, earrings, paintings, necklaces, war clubs, bows and arrows, oars and much more, all made by Kayapó artisans from the community.
Your brief and final river safari will take you back to the Kayapo village of Pykararankre. At the village, you will have the chance to say goodbye to the guides, chiefs and members of the Kayapó community who were part of your experience.
Board your charter flight back to your final destination (Manaus, Carajás, Marabá).
Itinerary - 8 days | 7 nights
Day 1 - Arrival at the lodge
Transfer from the airport where you will catch your charter flight to Xingu Lodge. Upon arrival, you will be greeted by your host with signature cocktails. After settling in, our manager will provide a brief tour of the property with an orientation session and an introduction to the team, made up of Brazilian and Kayapó members. Depending on your arrival time, you will have an afternoon of activities with a short walk on the jungle trail and a magnificent sunset.
Accommodation at Xingu Lodge is 4 double rooms, each with box-spring beds, private bathroom, hot water and electricity. The lodge is located on the banks of the Xingu River, overlooking a beautiful rapid and a swimming beach. Every evening our chef will present guests with a gourmet dish in our dining room.
Day 2 - Wildlife with warriors
After breakfast, we set off on one of the many trails through the forest that lead to areas of biological or cultural importance. Depending on your interest and experience, the trail can explore Brazil nut forests, ancient villages, lagoons, hunting grounds, animal viewing and much more.
Kayapó warriors and elders have incredible knowledge of the natural and cultural history of the region. During the interpretive walk, Kayapó guides will share knowledge about plants and help you spot and track different species, such as blue macaws, spider monkeys, jaguars, peccaries, tapirs or other small animals.
Lunch will be served back at the lodge. After lunch, enjoy some leisure time. Time to swim in the mighty Xingu or relax in a hammock. After lunch, head out with your guides on a boat safari along the Xingu River, in search of giant otters, peccaries, and kingfishers. End the evening with cocktails and appetizers at the lodge, followed by a delicious dinner prepared by the lodge's chef.
After dinner, listen and learn about the Kayapó Project through a brief presentation from your guides on how the Kayapo conserve and defend their incredible territory against illegal deforestation.
Day 3 - Kayapó Culture
After breakfast, enjoy a guided tour of the Kayapó village. The focus of the day will be learning more about their way of life. First, visit a vegetable garden and learn how they plant, harvest and process cassava root into flour, one of the staples of their traditional diet. Together with the Kayapó, you can help prepare a traditional dish, called Berarubu, where fresh fish and cassava flour are wrapped in banana leaves and roasted under the fire.
While the food is not ready, spend some time with the Kayapó women as they demonstrate one of the most iconic elements of their tradition – body painting – using natural dyes from Amazonian plants Jenipapo and Urucum. Try painting yourself before tasting the traditional food you helped prepare.
In the village, you may have the opportunity to spend the afternoon with Kayapó artisans making beads, working in wood or making baskets, shooting a bow and arrow, learning songs and dances, playing traditional (and contemporary) sports, learning the language or giving a refreshing dip. After dinner at the Lodge, enjoy a bonfire on the beach and hear some Kayapó stories and cosmology.
Day 4 and 5 - Night Camp at Imoti Lagoon
For adventurous guests, we offer an overnight camping experience at Imoti Lagoon, complete with all basic amenities, where participants can travel and explore more remote areas of the Xingu River. After breakfast at Xingu Lodge, travel an hour and a half by boat down the beautiful Xingu River, followed by a ten-minute walk through open forest to reach Imoti Lagoon Camp.
Once at camp, spend the afternoon exploring the area, hiking the trails that surround the two inner lagoons, paddling through the shallow lakes for incredible birdwatching and photography opportunities, swimming or fishing on the rocky Xingu coast, or simply relaxing at the campsite . Dinner and a campfire complete the day before falling asleep to the sounds of the jungle in your canvas tent and comfortable camp bed.
The next morning, cross the Xingu by boat to visit Kikretum Kawatire, a recently abandoned village. Harvest fresh mangoes and coconuts from the many fruit trees while learning about how Kayapó communities migrated through the Xingu region and the regional history of deforestation and rubber. A short walk from Kikretum Kawatire provides a great view of the mighty Xingu. Snacks and dinner prepared by the lodge's chef will be waiting for you when you return to Xingu Lodge.
Day 6 - Kayapó culture and art
After breakfast, take a trip downstream to meet another Kayapó village and the community members who live there.
You will also have the opportunity to spend the morning with Kayapó artisans making beads, working in wood or basket weaving, trying your luck at archery, learning songs and dances, practicing traditional (and contemporary) sports, learning the language and giving a refreshing dip.
After a picnic lunch, the Kayapó community will prepare a crafts fair, allowing you to take home your own bracelets, baskets, earrings, paintings, necklaces, war clubs, bows and arrows, oars and more, all made by artisans Kayapo.
Return to Xingu Lodge and relax with a sunset cocktail before dinner.
Complete Kayapo culture day by watching the film "Nhakpoti - Estrela Menina" about Kayapó cosmology, made and presented by Kayapó cameramen from Coletivo Beture.
Day 7 - Fishing and wildlife
After breakfast at the lodge, head out with your guides for another wildlife viewing excursion. Traveling upriver by boat, you will explore the narrow channels and tributaries of the Xingu River in search of birds, monkeys and other mammals.
Experience how the Kayapó fish in the river using a hand line. Try your luck at return fishing using hand line, bait or fly fishing techniques.
For lunch, your guides will prepare a riverside picnic with fresh fish.
Interested guests can go on a hike with Kayapó youth to see and learn about their camera trap project. Otherwise, return to the lodge for appetizers at sunset.
After dinner, young Kayapó photographers and filmmakers will present their incredible work, including photos, camera and audio traps, and short films about their culture, lifestyle and environment.
Secure your place now for this unparalleled adventure.
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