Aldeia dos Lagos

Dear Luciana,

I am so sorry, that i could not find the time until now to give you my feedback! first of all, although the payment through internet was a little complicated, we were very happy with viverde and your friendly and helpful booking service. until now, we haven´t had any problems with visa (as you remember, we paid three times and you cancelled two of these payments, this seems to have worked!)

Coming to the amazon region was without doubt the most impressive part of our journey to brasil. in Aldeia dos Lagos we felt a little lost at first, because we had the feeling that we had to ask for everything ourselves (meal hours, etc.), but in the end, everybody was very friendly and and helpful. the manager (?) and our guide explained to us the different tours, so we had the feeling we could really spend our 4 days according to to our own preferences, which was nice. They took us to so many interesting places and excursions, which we enjoyed very much!

The accomodation was good and the food was extremly good in aldeia. the only thing is, i would not recommend going there to someone who speaks and understands no portuguese. after studying different types of jungle lodge-offers on the internet i had the impression, that there would surely be at least one english speaking guide in every lodge.

Our guide did speak o.k. english, and he did his best to make us understand everything he showed us. but i had the feeling we did not learn as much as we could have from this most interesting part of the amazon. i know that it is the travellers responsibility to learn the language of the country he/she is travelling to, and i know that people in silves do not have enough possibilities to learn foreign languages. still we would have liked to know more about the rich nature and different ecosystems of amazon and especially about the aldeia project and also aspac.

As it was co-sponsored by the austrian government, i also wrote an email to our foreign ministry to ask for more information about Aldeia dos Lagos, but unfortunately I didn´t get an answer.

All in all, we were very happy in aldeia, saw as much as is possible in 4 days, and met a lot of really nice people. i hope i will have the opportunity to visit the amazon region again some time!

Thank you also for the possibility of feedback! Yes, i think, ilos was our main guide (i never saw his name written down, but it sounded like “ilos”), he really did his best in english! also marciano came with us on some tours and he was especially friendly and spoke slowly in portuguese so that i could understand everything (at least i think so). he also told us about the social problems in silves, which i found very interesting. When you send them my feedback, give them our greetings!
We think of aldeia whenever we listen to “banda calypso” 😉

Thank you for your service!
Greetings from vienna/austria
Claudia