Live the Amazon Jungle Life - Join us

How would you like to live like the Amazon natives and experience life as it has been lived for thousands of years? Or if this is a little too much, visit people who are, while you stay at the main camp at our Amazon lodge.

We have a round hut or cocamera - see photo - and are constructing a little village of them to accommodate anyone who wishes to experience the traditional lifestyle of theYagua tribe.

So join Curaca (Yagua Chief) Michael in his little village, just a 15 minute walk from the main camp, but first of all Esteban will teach you how to make your clothing out of palm fibre.

Your hut will be like the Chief's: two doors which when shut make the hut completely black inside with either a hammock or a ledge to sleep on. For sheets you will use tree bark and you will rise at dawn and go to bed when it gets dark, as there is no electricity.

The toilet is natural and you will wash in the river or stream, the same as you do in the shower at home.  You will use natural soap and shampoo and will have a wardrobe of grass skirts.  You can also have a canoe to use for checking the fishing nets every morning.

You can learn how to make the clothing from scratch, how to make a blowpipe and all about the traditional culture, particularly the natural remedies made from the plants that grow in the Amazon.

People can stay in the main lodge, which has running water, flush toilets and showers, but would have the opportunity of living the way Chief Michael lives when he is in residence. There are jungle walks that can be done with bare feet, and more traditional houses are being built.  The cocamera has been built off the main trail leading from the lodge complex, thus giving it complete authenticity. 

Guests can go to other places for a few nights, thus giving more people the opportunity to stay at the lodge.  For example, there would be treks, visits to the Pacaya-Samiria Reserve and special courses to learn about shamanism and ayahuasca.

Michael always wanted to live like that since he was a boy when he read articles about the Amazon in the National Geographic.  People have now moved such a long way from nature that they do not realise just what God has provided for us.  There is too much stress, too much materialism, and even the Yagua tribe is in danger of slowly following us unless we do something about it. 

How to join Michael and experience the Jungle Life Michael will only be there as part of a group, so specify if you would like to join a group.