Chapada Diamantina - luxuriant forests and waterfalls

Your English-speaking guide and a driver will be waiting for you as you get off the plane to drive you to your hotel in downtown Salvador.

n.b. : 45 minutes’ drive
Included : english speaking guide, transfer arrival

After your breakfast, your English-speaking guide will come to pick you up at the hotel lobby to visit the so called “Black Rome”, nicknamed like so because of the African culture influences on its traditions.

Your will start your city tour by the Ordem Terceira de São Francisco church, that has been built in the XVIIIth century.
You will then walk through the famous Pelourinho square, surrounded by colorful Portuguese colonial mansions.
You will go up the Ladeira do Carmo street to reach Santo Antonio neighborhood, and go through the Terreiro de Jesus square to the huge Art deco style Lacerda elevator. Don't resist the temptation of a refreshing “picolé” (ice cream)!
Included : english speaking guide, entrance fees, excursion (private)

Departure early in the morning with your guide to take your bus from Salvador to the Chapada Dimantina National Park.

Your driver will come to pick you up at the bus station in Lençóis and drive you to the hotel.

n.b. 7 hours’ drive.

Free afternoon to discover the small village and its restaurants, which serve delicious food.
Included : transfer arrival, public transport

After about one hour walk inside the National Park, you will see the Fumaça Waterfall, one of the main attraction of the Chapada. Indeed, it is the second highest waterfall in Brazil (385 meters high), surrounded by a primary forest of eatable palm trees (Euterpe edulis).

Pique-nique in situ.

You will then have the opportunity to swim in the clear waters of the Riachinho Waterfall before returning to your hotel.
Included : lunch (no drinks), english speaking guide, entrance fees, excursion (private)

You will be driven to the Pratinha Cave, a gigantic cave where flows a transparent river. You will enjoy a bath in the river if you wish and observe the animals and plants of this surreal place.
Next stop, the Mucugezinho waterfall.

On the way back, you will make a stop at Morro do Pai Inácio to watch the sunset from this 1120 meters high rock formation. The view over the Chapada is breathtaking.
Included : lunch (no drinks), english speaking guide, entrance fees, excursion (private)

Your driver will come to pick you up and drive east towards a remarkable site: the Poço Azul or "Blue Well". the Poço Azul is a cave flooded by transparent waters, where the sunlight penetrates and creates a surreal atmosphere. Before swimming in this beautiful and unique place, you will take a shower to get rid of the sunscreen.

You will then be driven to the Mosquito waterfall. A 60 meters waterfall where you can swim while admiring the surrounding nature.

You will have lunch either near Poço Azul or the Mosquito Waterfall.

Drive back to Lençóis in the afternoon.
Included : lunch (no drinks), english speaking guide, entrance fees, excursion (private)

Departure from the hotel in the afternoon and transfer to Salvador bus station.
n.b. 7 hours’ drive.

Your guide will come to pick you up at the bus station and drive you to the hotel.

Three hours before your flight, your English-speaking guide and a driver will pick you up at the hotel lobby to bring you to Salvador airport.
Included : transfer arrival, public transport, transfer departure