Solimoes River: Brazillian Wildlife, Piranha Fishing, Alligator Watching, and Handicraft Exploration

See the wildlife of Brazil in this tour of the Solimoes River. Participate in Piranha fishing and alligator washing for a thrilling activity. Visit the center of hand crafts and explore the streams and flooded areas if the season is the right time of the year.

Duration: 4 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Amazon River - The tour combines piranha fishing and alligator spotting, which is a good option for those who want to enjoy exciting and authentic Amazon experience. The adventure begins upon leaving the river terminal in Manaus for Iranduba. For this adventure, explore interesting places and observe their palafitas, fishermen and a landscape…
What's Included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Local guide
What's Not Included
  • Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
  • Food and drinks
Additional Information
  • Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
Location
Amazon River
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Tara_f
Mar 10, 2025
Our guide knew exactly... - Our guide knew exactly where to go to find the piranhas and we were successful in catching a few. He caught alligators with his bare hands and brought them onboard for us to hold and take pictures of. We released everything caught because it was about the experience. 10/10 would recommend.
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Yvonne
Feb 24, 2025
From Nightmare to Wow! - What a great experience! I booked this tour a couple of weeks ago. A flight delay caused me to miss it. I immediately contacted Viator and the tour company when I knew I wouldn't arrive in time. Viator said I couldn't get a refund. The tour company; however, worked with me to reschedule. And what a great tour it was! This was the 1st time I've EVER been piranha fishing! Our guide was great, and I even caught 2 piranha! After fishing, the alligator tour was also unique. The same guide used spotlights to find the gators, then got us close to them. Fabulous time. Kudos to Leonardo for working with me so I could enjoy this wonderful tour!!!
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Angelabk4497eo
Jan 15, 2025
Jacarés focus - Beautiful landscape, super safe. Mr. Antônio, responsible for the tour has great experience and is sensational, perfect. In the focus of the jacarés took with the hand to take a photo, without hurting the animal and soon returned to nature. Super recommend!
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607braulioc
Dec 31, 2024
Great walk - We made this family trip aboard an exclusive boat. We sailed the Negro River in the late afternoon and fished some fish (piranha, mandi, barbad). When it gets dark the guide starts focusing jacarés. We had the opportunity to see some of them. The guide showed us a beautiful specimen of jacaré acu chicken, in detail. Enriching experience. It's very worth it. I recommend.
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John_m
Dec 13, 2024
Fun on the River - Just a great experience…started out with a massive rainstorm so we took refuge on a fuel barge..clean as and beer was cold. The across the huge river for fishing and had fun catching a few..the piranhas weren’t caught but plenty others. The the most exciting bit..catching a couple of caimans. Thoroughly recommended!
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Shanelq6628jl
Nov 13, 2024
Piranha and gators - Had a great time fishing for piranhas and seeing an alligator. I would recommend for anyone. Bring repellent. Guide was amazing
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Grigori_t
Jul 10, 2024
Excellent life time Amazonian experience - Tour agent was in contact with us and said that pickup time is 4pm. At the morning they contacted us and said that pickup will be at 4:30. At 4.30 driver contacted us and said that he is coming. Car was very good and we quickly reached the port. It turned out that it is just us two on the tour. We met Antonio, who was not speaking english at all, maybe just a few words. Our 10 words in spanish helped us to understand each other but believe me you don't need to know any language to understand what is going on. Real part of the tour started at 5:00. It was very small boat for 4 person. We drove to the next river bank. It very spectacular view because of excellent sunset. Behind the place where we were swimming with porpoises day before. Manaus was visible behind the trees. We started piranha finishing there. A lot of piranhas. We were not able to catch something, they were eating the meat very quickly. Our guide catched one very big piranha, we made photos and videos like it was us who catched it :D. Then we let the fish back in the waters and went to look over alligators. Sunset was continuing and it was spectacular views again. We seen slots on the trees, birds and anacondas leather on the water. After dark it was cloud of mosquitoes over us and repellent was not helping much. We sprayed it over our face and fingers and everywhere but they bited our fingers and face anywhere. Luckily we were wearing long sleeve/pants. Antonio gave us some torch and we started to seek for alligator. We found one quickly. Baby one. We went near and Antonio wanted to catch it by his hands. My wife quickly got mad about it and asked to go. So we continued to drive and look over the alligators. There were alligator eyes everywhere. Trees were fool of eyes of birds as well. On the way back we drove through river in the dark and it was like driving through crystal lake to the city of lights. Sky was open and everything was very beautiful again. We've seen bigger vessels and our small one was better better because we really enjoyed the views. at 19:00 we were back in port. Some other car took us back to hotel. Big thanks to Antonio. Despite not talking in english he was very gentle and done his job very well. Some reviewers were complaining that it is not Solimoes river. I am not sure what river it was (probably it was Rio Negro because water was black) but it makes no difference. Piranhas and alligators were there. According to what I heard solimoes has much more mosquitoes than Rio Negro and mosquitoes are real issue. Thanks for the great tour. It was lifetime experience of real amazon river at the night. Recommended to everyone.
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888glena
Jun 22, 2024
Excursion of a lifetime. - Absolutely incredible. It was an experience that I will never forget. Totally recommend it to anyone. Excellent tour guide.
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Lovetotravel787878
Jan 15, 2024
WILD! - Wow! Caught 2 piranhas and the guide caught 2 caimans with his bare hands! We took a few pics and then released all the animals. Wild experience! I highly recommend it because it's unique to the Amazon. Also--very beautiful to see the sunset and be out at night with all the wild jungle night sounds. Be sure to use lots of bug spray, though, as I got bit.
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Yvonne_s
Feb 21, 2025
Missed Excursion - Because of a delayed flight, I missed this excursion. I immediately contacted Viator and the provider to see if the activity could be switched to a later date. Viator said no, the provider said yes. I don't know where I stand. Please clarify. Thanks. I use Viator for many excursions around the world.
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up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).