An amazing Amazon tour

SAYIT Travel and Kumuka Worldwide have launched a 49-day overland tour through South America, with the adventure departing from Rio the day after Rio Carnival. The bespoke tour has one departure only – February 17, 2010.

The company says the tour’s length and the destinations it reaches will provide travellers with an authentic and comprehensive experience of a continent that is rapidly growing in popularity with adventurous travellers. The tour includes a free Rio Carnival accommodation package, valued at €620 (if booked by October 31, 2009), a six-day Roraima trek which will navigate through the mountain region of the Guyana, Venezuela and Brazil borders, a three-day Angel Falls tour (including flights), a five-day Amazon river ferry cruise where travellers will sleep aboard the boat in hammocks and a two-day Amazon jungle excursion which will reach the meeting of the waters.

The overland tour will also include leisure time on the beaches of Brazil, time to experience village culture in Brazilian native villages, do the samba at a Salvador street-party, race dune buggies at the Lencois Maranhenses dunes, shop at the Belem Markets and cross over the equator. This tour is priced at €4,800 and includes return flights and all taxes ex. For further details contact SAYIT Travel on 021 4279188 or visit www.sayit.ie