We had a wonderful time in Amazon Tupana Lodge and Manaus and we are glad we chose Tupana Lodge. Despite the long drive, the setting is perfect (altho’ we should mention the very young driver, Danini, who drove us to the canoe – he drove at breakneck speed over a muddy potholed road in an old VW van, and wouldnot slow down) on our return journey we had an older driver who was fine.
We had a fabulous guide, extremely knowledgeable, called Fabio, who really made the trip for us, we learnt so much about the jungle and river. We thought the excursions were all very well organised and we loved the lodge and view of the river from our room, and making friends with Conchita, the monkey, and Romeo the pet tapir! The food was excellent, and we experienced many local Brazilian dishes, also a lovely dish prepared by Fabio from the fruit we helped him pick.
We only have one complaint (apart from the young driver). The lodge ran out of water on 2 occasions and ran out of beer on 1 occasion. We were sold chlorinated water in unsealed bottles, and they didn’t inform us until we complained about the taste of the water. This is really unacceptable, as there is nothing to prevent a continuous back-up supply of water and beer to be kept in storage. Please would you inform the owners of the lodge and make sure this doesn’t happen again and spoil the stay for future guests.
Apart from this we would recommend Tupana without hesitation, and would recommend Fabio as the perfect guide. I attach some photos taken on the way to the lodge and of fruit sellers we met on the river etc.
Please would you let me know that you have passed the information onto the owners of the lodge about the water/beer situation.
Many thanks.
Kind regards,
Penny and Brian Ridgway (Courtenay-Bishop)