Although I now have a good command of the French language, I still find writing it a bit challenging. So, I invite you to learn more below, together with Fred, and to watch this short introduction video by clicking right here.
Feel free to contact us and discuss your future travel plans… you’ll see, the Amazon will surprise you even more than you can imagine!
P.S.: Our team is like a big family, made up of guides who speak English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and of course French. We also have drivers for cars, minibuses, and coaches who can pick you up at the airport, pilots of small motorboats, and captains of regional boats—all of whom are fully licensed. Our staff also includes cooks, masseuses, partner guesthouse owners, and, of course, our hosts and friends: native caboclos, ribeirinhos, and indigenous people who always welcome us with open arms and doors, humbly sharing their ancestral knowledge and brightening our days with their kindness and smiles. A big thank you to all of them!

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Hi — I’m Fred, a French man from the region Bretagne (Breizh) who settled in the Brazilian Amazon in 2016. With my wife Sara, an native woman, and our two children born here, I like to highlight the union of our roots, which makes us a small family of… Breizhilians.

I’ll introduce my loved ones briefly in this presentation, because you’ll hardly miss meeting them when you visit here — we’re that connected.

Living in conditions far removed from your daily life, with a local way of operating alongside certain infrastructures, a system and a rhythm so different from European life, all these elements make running our small business necessarily family-run. For our multi-day expeditions into indigenous territories we must adapt, sometimes alternating between Sara, our guides and myself, or else go together “as a family” to savor the reality of our hosts, the guardians of the forest.

But how so??
A Frenchman showing you the Wonders of the Amazon — a little surprising, right?

Not so much, because I myself was once the tourist you are, and it was through another Frenchman, Bernard, owner of the well-known boat Amazon Dream, that I discovered the region in 2014 while I was doing a round-the-world trip.
Since then, faced with an underestimated local tourist potential and driven by a natural curiosity, I explored routes beyond those that existed, which is why today we can proudly offer exclusive itineraries you won’t find anywhere else.

I certainly haven’t forgotten what I came here to seek back then, and therefore what your expectations might be at the idea of exploring this mythical land.

But more than a land, it is its majestic rivers that we will take to discover the riches of the region.
Our fleet comprises several vessels, and while we offer the same Amazon Dream cruises as excellent French colleagues listed on specialized world-travel websites, Bernard willingly allows us to charter the Amazon Dream for groups wanting a personalized program.
This possibility of a tailor-made trip is also available on Belle Amazon & Amazon Dolphin, Giuseppe II, Comandante Emanuel and Comandante Levi, of which we are the only operators and representatives in Europe.

As the former “round-the-world traveler” that I am, you can rightly imagine I have a taste for authenticity and immersive journeys.
Over time I built strong ties with local populations — both small riverside communities and indigenous peoples;
I discovered a real reciprocity in them, a desire and a necessity to welcome qualitative visits in small groups to ensure fair and sustainable tourism that delivers immediate benefits.

You’ll see for yourselves: no distance, no intermediaries — the locals who welcome us are simple people with contagious generosity. We will bring you onto their lands, into their humble homes — a small wooden shack or a thatched maloca — because it is truly their wish to receive you that way, to share their meal or include you in their rituals.

Far from soulless mass tourism, this fascinating shift from ecotourism to ethnotourism, carried out with deep respect for their cultures and traditions, produces concrete human impact for both sides, resulting in socio-economic and environmental gains.
You will learn from them as they will learn from you.
Sara and I act as the liaison and organize your stay; your real guides are the natives of the riverside communities and the indigenous aldeias (villages).

That is the striking journey Sara and I offer you: an authentic and moving cultural exchange within grand landscapes, an incredible discovery of a daily life so different from yours, an intense life lesson that we consider useful to each person’s personal development — even indispensable, in my view, for anyone who wishes to “evolve.”

After speaking of the human side, I want to share what the Amazon revealed to me unexpectedly.

As I mentioned earlier, I discovered this paradise while doing a round-the-world trip in 2014–2015.

Three years earlier in France I had suffered a serious fall that required more than two years of rehabilitation.
In a specialized center I first had to fight just to sit up again, get used to living in a wheelchair, then later try to stand with crutches and finally, not without difficulty, relearn to walk at the age of 37.

Leaving the hospital with this new disabled status, I decided to travel the world alone, cane in hand and a big backpack on my back, visiting dozens of countries unknown to me to test my “repaired” body and learn its new limits.

During my time in the Amazon I was surprised to discover, beyond the wonders of nature, that the climate and the energy of the place seemed “therapeutic” for my body — I felt (and still feel) noticeably less pain here than anywhere else in the world.
While many other planned destinations proved exciting or rich in lessons, none soothed me as the Amazon does. Other regions of the world I had long wished to visit receded from me as my body no longer tolerated very cold temperatures.

Although I reasonably feared humid zones for triggering joint pain, to my surprise this Caribbean Amazon was a true revelation.

Situated between the overly touristic, extremely humid Amazon of Manaus on one side and the Amazonian savanna on the other (yes, I discovered that too), you will be amazed to find, beyond the expected scenery, a warm climate that is far from stifling, sudden intense rains of incredible beauty, paradisiacal white-sand beaches allowing unimaginable swims, and nights without… mosquitoes!
Yes, really.

This revelation the Amazon gave me was so striking that during my world trip I returned three times to confirm its virtues and finally decided to settle here.

My desire to breathe in, absorb and then share Amazonian energy with others was thus born.

We imagined and refined our offers thinking of you: people receptive to good vibes, seeking escape but also simplicity and generosity, nature lovers and hiking enthusiasts, anyone who wants to keep marveling at new natural beauties, to get away, explore their senses, develop their soul in a setting with unique radiance that stimulates the unconscious, unlocks emotions, encourages listening to our intuitions and elevates our spirituality within the largest forest on Earth.

And of course, a great source of pride proving that a small operation can lead and open the way: we will be happy to welcome soon my fellow fighters living with motor disabilities. To follow on the Inclusive Travel page.

In these difficult times when being born on one side or the other of a border can forever shape a life, when politics, economies and profit appear to be the unshakable drivers of our leaders, when a virus confines us for months within four walls and the virtual replaces sociability, a return to the sources of this nature becomes an obvious necessity for the awakening of the heart and soul; a call to respect others, to populations often considered the weakest; an invitation to respect memory and ancestral knowledge increasingly erased by human development; and an exhortation to respect our Earth and its abundant nature, perhaps too generous toward the ego-driven species that calls itself “evolved.”

Perhaps you will understand even more upon your return to Europe or elsewhere why many weeks ago you chose this destination.
Like other travelers before you, you will likely write to us months or years after your Amazonian encounter to tell us how the humility such discoveries impose contributed to your growth, transforming what you thought was only a trip into several.
You are already welcome.

See you soon, Frédéric & Sara

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