Reserva Natural Palmari

MAIN ADVANTAGES OF THE RESERVA NATURAL PALMARI
The present advantages apply for the region comprising the amazonian triangle of Perú – Colombia – Brasil, which is the area visited by tourism reaching it through the cities of Leticia (Colombia), Tabatinga (Brazil) and Santa Rosa (Perú)

We are the only site that offers both out-bound communication through a "COMCEL" handy-telephone system working without "roaming", as well as an "IP" satelite "Wi-Fi" wireless "Internet" connection allowing email , chat, skype voice-to-voice and electronic data-transfer. We ask our clients to bring and use their own handy phones and PC laptops, blackberries or similar, since our local equipments are solely for internal use of the Reserva Natural Palmari team.

Location of our visitor´s center

It is located on the brazilian shore of the Javarí river, it´s huge water flow allows access by river transport means during any time of the year, even in low water season or during heavy droughts.
It is the only one built high on “terra firme” forest floor, this eco-system being dry, none-flooding terrain all year around, allowing our guests to initiate walks without having to travel by water first.
It is the only one constructed approximately 10 meters over the year´s highest water level, garanteeing a 360° breathtaking view over the Javarí river, the surrounding jungle and sandy beaches.

Visitor´s center

It is the only facility that offers 5 different types of lodging: private lodges, private rooms, indigenous “maloca”, typical ”enramada” and hammoc-camping inside the jungle, further more, allowing our guests to choose and rotate the various options at wish and/or pick between sleeping in comfortable beds or wide hammocks.

It is the only facility offering a watch-tower at about 15 meters above the floor level inside our visitor´s center, bearing comfortable access by a sturdy concrete staircase, granting a breathtaking panoramic view of 360° over the jungle, river and beaches.

Being the visitor´s center conveniently located on “terra firme” forest floor, on very high ground over the maximum river level, the entire center connected by wodden walkways above the ground and with an ample lawn area keeping the forest sufficiently away from the living quarters and terraces, we are the visitor´s center with the lowest presence of mosquitos, “no´see´ums”, scorpions, venomous reptiles and other similar biting and stinging animal species.
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“All inclusive”

We are the only destination, which really quotes, sells and offers an “all inclusive” service, including all transfers, all activities (excluding only the “canopying” activity) which may be repeated as many times as desired, all meals, snacks and tour-snacks, all beverages including softdrinks and alcoholic beverages (only for adults) in any quantities, all river transports and it´s requiered fuel, all needed bed & hammock clothing for lodging at the vistor´s center or in the jungle, all required equipment for any activity or undertaking, all tours and ventures outside the visitor´s center (except the land transportation and entry fee to the indigenous “Marubo” villages) and all other services.

Personalized & specialized guidance

We are the only destination that provides each groupe with it´s own bi-lingual, individual guide as much as possible in accordance to the specific interests and expectations of said groupe, designing, proposing, planning and executing all activities in a flexible manner, planned day-by-day, bearing in mind climatical conditions, opportunities the natural surrounding environment offers and always in search for the best result for his groupe.

We are the only destination that offers local, specialized, personalizad guidance, which means rotational guidance hired from the neighbouring communities, trained and instructed to transmit their local knowledge in a general and specific context, guides, which day by day teach our guests, learn from them and mature in their own home environment without being transfered to other working sites like the “park wardens” from the governmental-state park systems or the “hired day work force”, which results in the presence of ocasional guiding personell poorly related to the area and work environment, distant to the specific local knowledge of the zone and the optimal work effort related to the client.

Reality: Cost = client´s satisfaction

In accordance to the findings and results of our inquieries over the past 3 years through the Reserva Natural Palmari history, answered by our independant clients, tour-groups, school-class groups, specialized tourism, “backpackers” and various others, we have found, that the Reserva Natural Palmari has statistically obtained the best result regarding the concept equation “cost = client´s satisfaction” compared to all the other destinations in the region.

Multiple-day-undertakings (Trekking / Kayaking / Fishing / Animal observation / Others)

We are the only provider that offers “multiple-day-undertakings” relevant to trekking, kayaking and/or canoeing (or the combination of both the aforementioned), sport fishing, ornithological & animal observation tours and various others. .

Forest eco-systems

We are the only site that offers - inside as well as outside of the terrains of the Reserva Natural Palmari - all three neo-tropical forest eco-systems, as they are “terra firme”, “várzea” and “igapo”.

Water eco-systems

We are the only site that posesses all water eco-systems of the neo-tropical rain forest, as they are main river and its tributaries, open lakes, covered lakes, wetlands, marshes and ponds of “white” (muddy & sandy) water, as well as ox-bow lakes, open and covered lakes, wetlands, marshes, ponds and channels connecting these water bodies with the river, all holding “black” (nearly transparent organic) water, plus cristaline transparent jungle creeks and streams.

We are the only site that offers various beautifull white sandy beaches in inmediate vecinity to our visitor´s center.

We are the only destination that offers in the immediate vecinity to our vistor´s center various natural pools holding cristaline, transparent water being home to a huge variety of sweet water ornamental “aquarium” fish.

Canopy activities

We are the only destination that offers 2 sepparate canopy platform facilities - managed and served by professional, well trained personell working with european top-class, certified gear - one facility combining 2 and 3 platforms above “terra firme” forest and the other facility consisting of one huge platform above “várzea” and "igapo" forests, very close to a wide jungle channel and which is comfortable enough allowing to spend the night on it in wide hammocks.

We are the only destination that offers the chance to study and investigate the environment, it´s flora, it´s fauna, it´s ecology, etc., by means of a specialized library carrying over 90 field-guides, species lists and maps.

Ecology and environmental protection

We are the only site that works directly and closely with the neighbouring communities by means of social agreements oriented to improove their quality of life, their economic income, their education, better handling of waste management and residual water treatment, motivate and capacitate the interaction with our guests through guidance, working and living with them, as well as creating projects regarding logistic support to improove health, sanitary and teaching aspects, the creation and handling of wildlife breading stock in order to create sustainable processes that significantly reduce hunting, fishing and logging.

We are the only destination that has extended its interest in the region creating agreements with communities and land owners further beyond with the interest to offer our guests the possibility to venture to other places of interest besides the Reserva Natural Palmari.

We are the only destination that has signed various agreements with indigenous tribes from the middle and upper Javarí and its tributaries, through their members visiting our domains, which have resulted in a reciprocal deep friendship and trust, merchandising of their handicrafts and produce, as well as improovement of their quality of life in diverse aspects.

Condition of the neo-tropical forest

The Amazon river has suffered on all it´s length, from the foothills of the Andean mountain range to it´s mouth on the Atlantic - and keeps suffering - the strong and relentless impact of chainsaws, hunting rifles and nylon deep-river fishing nets, not respecting and trespassing even today the boundaries of so-called “governmental state park system protected land” or “eco-tourism related protected land”, regions that in fact are ruled by logging, hunting, fishing or other ilegal, destructive interests, camuflaged under the “ecological” flag held up by none-caring economic interests and investments; the middle and upper Javarí river was closed to the “white man” and his rampaging destruction until recently, then the Reserva Natural Palmari was created not only for touristical topics, but, in general, to protect this inmense region of pristine, virgen forests and sound lakes and to preserve this unique destination of global interest.

Canoeing and Kayaking

We are the only destination that besides local, tradicional canoes of various sizes and load capacity, offers the possibility of “kayaking” by means of various professional "Perception 3000" kayaks.

We are the only site that has paid special effort to teach and train our local staff of guides the style and needs of sport fishing, with the interest, to serve professionally our sport fishing guests, to drive our specialized sport fishing boats according to the sport fisherman´s expectations and to make good use of the various aquatic eco-systems, currents and depths in order to garantee our guests the best result in their sport fishing efforts.

We are the only destination that promotes and supports the ecologic sport fishing rule of “catch & release” and we have accounted over 45 different fish species of game fish caught in the various water boddies.

Back-channelling of economic surplus

We are the only touristic site in the region that shares a percentage of our yearly economic surplus between all employed and otherwise helping hands that interveined during that ending year; besides that, another percentage is re-invested in new improovements and equipment, in new agreements and support of various topics regarding our neighbouring communities, as well as aiming at the future through the creation of new agreements with further beyond living communities in order to seek for new friendship and mutual cooperation up-river on the Javarí or deeper up into the tributaries.

European-global organization, administration and quality-control

We are an european-global organization with partners and consultancies in Europe, Asia and North America, with legal and logistical none-proffit support coming from multinational organizations interested in the preservation of the environment and the goals set by the Reserva Natural Palmari; this said, it is clear that our services, the atention paid to our clients, the profesionalism seeked for in our staff and the results obtained in the sumn of all aforementioned is constantly scrutinized and monitorized by international standards, high quality expectations and critical control of form and contents.