Aqua Expeditions starts 2012 by teaching its guests a new skill – canoeing in dug-out boats on the Amazon River! Local experts, who use these canoes in day-to-day Amazonian life, show our guests exactly how to stay afloat, manoeuvre and even fish from these shallow boats.

 

The canoes are carved by hand from indigenous trees and are instrumental for both fishing and transportation. While extremely sturdy, they are trickier to steer than they look, as some of our guests found out in a trial session…. Here are a few shots of how our friends meet the locals, get up close to nature and have fun learning a new skill!