Born and raised in the Amazon with over 18 years of experience guiding visitors from all over the world
Founded Amazon Private Tours company in 2019 after working for the best
tourism companies in our region and picking the best I’ve learned from each
place gathering all these years of experience and formulating the best
packages of activities visitors can find when they come
The best way to enjoy a place is with a local guide, and that’s the specialty of
Amazon Private Tours.
Enjoy the beauties of Amazonian fauna and flora on day tours or longer
excursions, always with local experienced tour guides. Able to show you the
history and culture of our region and take you to our breathtaking landscapes
to guide you the local experience you will never forget.
Born and raised in the Amazon with over 18 years of experience guiding visitors from all over the world
Founded Amazon Private Tours company in 2019 after working for the best
tourism companies in our region and picking the best I’ve learned from each
place gathering all these years of experience and formulating the best
packages of activities visitors can find when they come
The best way to enjoy a place is with a local guide, and that’s the specialty of
Amazon Private Tours.
Enjoy the beauties of Amazonian fauna and flora on day tours or longer
excursions, always with local experienced tour guides. Able to show you the
history and culture of our region and take you to our breathtaking landscapes
to guide you the local experience you will never forget.
































A experiência que milton permite de viver na amazônia é a única que deve ser escolhida, não para ser um turista intrusivo, mas um hóspede educado neste templo da natureza.... read more Na verdade, seu passeio privado permite que você entre na floresta com discrição e visão clara, para aprender sobre animais, plantas e histórias da Amazônia. Além disso, sua empresa e sua conversa são um grande valor agregado.
We were only in Manaus for a day so we spent a lot of time looking for the right tour company to work with. We couldn’t have been happier with... read more our choice of Milton.
Milton is so knowledgeable not only about details of the rubber history but of the entire history of Manaus and life in the Amazon. We both had read a decent amount of Brazilian history and researched the region but learned so much with Milton.
We added on a second tour of the river where we took a boat out to see a number of traditional Amazonian floating villages. The depth of knowledge and love he has for the region made it so special. We really got a comprehensive taste for the region in one day, exactly what we were looking for. We got to see a ton of wildlife too!
Apart from an excellent tour, Milton himself is a great person. Very warm and knowledgeable. We felt very comfortable with him, it felt like spending a day with an old friend. Very rare to find someone like Milton.
Look no further than Amazon Private Tours and Milton, he’ll curate exactly the experience you’re looking for. Can’t wait to visit again!!
The tour of a lifetime!! Thank you so much Milton for being so accommodating! I arrived at the MAO airport at 3pm and at the last possible minute, wondered... read more if I had enough time to squeeze in the Meeting of the Rivers that same afternoon prior to my Full Day Tour in the jungle the following day. Milton was extremely responsive and was able to conduct a tour where the guide picked me up from the airport and took me straight to the boating docks to see the meeting of the rivers. Not only that, I was also able to ride around the river to see the Floating Villages and also feed their famous fish, the Pirarucu, in their fish farm! Once the quick tour ended, they took me to my hotel.
As for the Whole Day in Jungle Tour, I could not have asked for a better guide. Fabio was extremely intelligent, having great knowledge of the Amazon and was very personable. Thank you Fabio, I truly enjoyed spending my entire day with you! I loved every part of it, from the experiences to the lunch! Probably the best fish I have ever eaten! My absolute favorite part was the 45 minute break after lunch to just relax and with that, I was able to swim in the river with the Pink Dolphins! (This was after the pink dolphin experience that is already a part of the tour!!) I truly felt like I was living a great life, swimming freely in the river while the dolphins circled around me.
I had a flight leaving at 9:15pm, the same night of the whole day tour, and with prior arrangements with Milton, they were able to complete the tour and drop me off at the airport without rushing any of my Amazon experiences. Thank you so much!!! You have given me memories that I will cherish forever. I couldn't have asked for a better company to take care of me and my travel itinerary! I am truly honored to have found this tour with this company!
We had a brilliant time with Milton and Fabio on this experience. Both were kind, funny, knowledgeable and welcoming. Fabio even went out of his way to make us homemade... read more food for our dietary requirements as we stayed in his guest house.
We got to see the meeting of the waters, the floating villages, meet a tribe, swim with river dolphins, trek through the jungle, sample local food, see the sunset and the beautiful night’s sky filled with stars. Any activities we didn’t want to participate in, such as Piranha fishing, was absolutely fine with the guides and they tailored our experience for us wherever possible.
Milton and Fabio were great at spotting wildlife such as squirrel monkeys, alligators, tarantulas and so much more. We felt incredibly safe with them at all times as they knew how to navigate the rainforest and had great relationships with local people.
It was one of the best experiences of our lives and we’d definitely recommend for others looking to get a full experience of the Brazilian Amazon. We saw and learnt so much and will keep the memories with us forever.
We spent a wonderful day on the Amazon -Manaus with our fantastic guide, Fabinho. We swam with pink dolphins, visited a village and danced with the locals, saw fantastic lily... read more pads, passed through a local floating village and enjoyed local food in a floating restaurant and fished a bunch too! We learned a lot about the cultures and people. We would do this tour again and highly recommend it
I work for an airline and I travel a lot for my job. Unfortunately, due to the nature of my schedule, I am unable to book activities in destinations I... read more visit too far in advance. I got lucky with Amazon Private Tours by Milton Fernandez. Milton, the owner and our guide, managed to put together a trip for myself and my crew with very short notice and boy am I glad he did! He was communicative and professional, and customized the tour to our specific requests. Six of us did a tour lasting about 5 hours where he piloted a small boat up the Rio Negro River, the largest tributary flowing into the Amazon. We got a chance to interact with the pink dolphins in their natural environment, and as a vegetarian who is passionate about animal welfare, I have to admit I was leery of this activity at first. There are many animal interactive activities I have passed on around the world because of their exploitative nature, but I didn't feel that at all with this one. We were actually swimming in the river and the dolphins come over of their own free will, of course attracted by fish snacks. It was amazing to see these creatures in their natural habitat, they were so beautiful. We then continued upriver to visit a tribe of indigenous people. I don't know if they put on a show for visitors or not, but I honestly felt that they were happy to see us. The chief was charming and seemed sincere as he welcomed us warmly into his village and his tribe. Everyone in the tribe seemed friendly and as interested in us as we were with them. I learned a lot about their culture, listened to some of their music, and had a chance to participate in a dance with the whole tribe. We all LOVED it! I have had countless memorable travel experiences, and this one ranks right up there in the top five. I think I can speak for my crew members, since I know they were all delighted with our 5 hours on the Rio Negro. One thing to consider, make sure you have some Brazilian cash to be able to buy some of the handicrafts from the tribe. Thank you Milton for an amazing afternoon! Obrigada!
The two-day tour programme is very tight although not tiring. Everything that Amazon Private Tours promises is fully delivered! A very fun adventure, great people. I learned a lot. If... read more you don't have time for a longer trip, this is the tour for you.
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Eu estive em Manaus algumas vezes...Na última vez estava trabalhando e cheguei antes para aproveitar a cidade. Antes de sair do Rio estava buscando um roteiro para... read more fazer com adultos e crianças, conversando com uma amiga moradora da cidade ela me indicou o Milton Fernande! Ele presta um serviço incrível! Além de ser muito educado e gentil, posso afirmar que é um guia completo, narra fatos históricos e científicos da região.
Foi uma alegria ter o Milton como nosso guia!!
Ele é pontual, tem um transfer limpo e bem cuidado. O passeio de barco é seguro e divertido!
Indico sempre o trabalho dele.
My brother and I took this 8 hour caves and waterfalls day tour and had a fantastic time! Our small group of five people (including our guide Mario) was a... read more perfect size. The tour started with being picked up from our hotel and driving almost two hours outside of Manaus to reach the first waterfall. The waterfall was impressive, with a huge volume of water and strong current. We were able to jump/dive into the water and swim around in a safe location under the watchful eye of Mario. We then walked around one kilometer to the next waterfall which was equally impressive. After that we hopped back into the car and drove into the town to have lunch. Following lunch we drove out to a spectacular grotto where we spent time taking pictures, walking through the beautiful surroundings and enjoying the waterfalls and caves.
Insider tip, if you want the waterfalls and grottos to yourselves, book your tour for a weekday not a weekend. This will ensure that you do not have other people crowding your pictures and ruining the tranquility of the nature.
Mario was a great guide, giving us information about each place we visited as well as local flora and fauna.
We arrived back to our hotel around 18:00 tired but happy with our experience. If you want a true Amazon experience complete with nature, swimming, and a whole lot of knowledge than I would reccommend booking with this company and asking for Mario.
Perfect 2-days tour. Fabio was an amazing guide. First day we went to indigenous people village to see their cultural presentation and we even danced a bit with them. Then... read more we saw villages where people literally live on the water. Houses are built on the floating logs. Kids are attending the elementary school on the water.
We saw the place where the black and white rivers meet.
In the jungle we saw tucans, aras, monkeys, tarantella spider, green mamba (non-poisonous), crocodiles, piranhas, dolphins, gigantic ants, nice flavour smelly ants for camouflage, alarm captain bird... Fabinho made a lunch for us in the jungle and we ate from palm leaves. He knows each and every tree, from mahogany, rubber tree, cocoa, quinine, guarana. So, it was an extraordinary anthropological, zoological and botanical experience. Thank you Fabio, Milton and others.
Great tour with a great guide - The trip was wonderful, the guide (Fabio, thank you again) was great, showed a lot in the forest and on the water and you could really feel his connection to... read more this wonderful place. It was a perfect trip to get an overview of the forest in a day.
We even saw some animals (birds, spiders, monkeys and glimpses of alligators), but they are treated with respect and not held as in a zoo, which means if you get lucky to spot some animals in the jungle you will see them, otherwise you don’t. But this is great, as again, the Amazon is not a zoo and on this tour the whole forest is treated with a lot of respect.
We loved it, we saw a lot and got to experience as much as possible in a daytrip without being overwhelmed. And again I have to praise our great guide Fabio (Fabinho) because he made this trip perfect.
A experiência que milton permite de viver na amazônia é a única que deve ser escolhida, não para ser um turista intrusivo, mas um hóspede educado neste templo da natureza.... read more Na verdade, seu passeio privado permite que você entre na floresta com discrição e visão clara, para aprender sobre animais, plantas e histórias da Amazônia. Além disso, sua empresa e sua conversa são um grande valor agregado.
First, we booked this 4-hour historical tour with Milton to visit the main attractions of the city (the opera house, the municipal market, and the city center surroundings). Milton is... read more extremely knowledgeable about his city, very polite and was extremely patient about all our questions (and we had a lot of them!). We loved every second with him, and then we decided to hire Milton for the afternoon as well to go to MUSA, a nice local restaurant, and the next day to go the Museu do Seringal (where he took us in his boat, and it was so nice to learn about the rubber period of the city!). Milton was excellent! We couldn’t have chosen a better guide to learn about Manaus and its history.
The tour of a lifetime!! Thank you so much Milton for being so accommodating! I arrived at the MAO airport at 3pm and at the last possible minute, wondered... read more if I had enough time to squeeze in the Meeting of the Rivers that same afternoon prior to my Full Day Tour in the jungle the following day. Milton was extremely responsive and was able to conduct a tour where the guide picked me up from the airport and took me straight to the boating docks to see the meeting of the rivers. Not only that, I was also able to ride around the river to see the Floating Villages and also feed their famous fish, the Pirarucu, in their fish farm! Once the quick tour ended, they took me to my hotel.
As for the Whole Day in Jungle Tour, I could not have asked for a better guide. Fabio was extremely intelligent, having great knowledge of the Amazon and was very personable. Thank you Fabio, I truly enjoyed spending my entire day with you! I loved every part of it, from the experiences to the lunch! Probably the best fish I have ever eaten! My absolute favorite part was the 45 minute break after lunch to just relax and with that, I was able to swim in the river with the Pink Dolphins! (This was after the pink dolphin experience that is already a part of the tour!!) I truly felt like I was living a great life, swimming freely in the river while the dolphins circled around me.
I had a flight leaving at 9:15pm, the same night of the whole day tour, and with prior arrangements with Milton, they were able to complete the tour and drop me off at the airport without rushing any of my Amazon experiences. Thank you so much!!! You have given me memories that I will cherish forever. I couldn't have asked for a better company to take care of me and my travel itinerary! I am truly honored to have found this tour with this company!
Perfect experience - It was a great experience. Totally recommend it. Our tour guide was very knowledgable.
Thanks for this great opportunity
We felt very welcome and learned a lot - We had a GREAT day with Fabio, Milton and Elder.
I brought My 8 yo daughter and she had a great time.
All the team was very kind and... read more thoughtful the hole time.
They would explain things in a way she could understand and learn.
My favorite part was the trekking, learning more about the local plants, making the fire, and cooking a surprisingly tasting meal.
My kid's favorite part was to swim with the pink dolphins in the river.
Also, when my phone died, Milton borrowed me his phone, so we could take pictures! that sounds small bus was very helpfull. 🙂
Posted on christine marsilleTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Super bien organisé le chauffeur et Denis sont vraiment très sympas .On a passé une excellente journée avec le must la rencontre avec les botosPosted on Rickalictic FieldTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Amazing experience. Highly recommend. Guides were great, felt safe the whole time even with the wildlife around 😄Posted on Carlos KirchdorferTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Sehr gut strukturierte 2-Tages Tour! Ich kann diese Agentur nur weiterempfehlen. Milton und sein Team haben sich sehr viel Mühe gegeben, um uns die verschiedenen Facetten das Amazonas zu zeigen. Sei es das Schwimmen mit Delphinen, das Aufspüren von Kaimanen oder der Besuch bei den Indigenen, stets wurden wir bestens informiert und geführt. Auch die Nacht im Amazonas war erlebnisreich (und recht laut). Alles in allem eine klare Empfehlung.Posted on Idana savenTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. We absolutely loved this tour. Our guide was so knowledgeable and made it an even better experience. We particularly loved the dolphin encounter. Would definitely recommend this!Posted on Cristian FernandezTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Una experiencia muy bonita , con un trato ejemplar por parte de los trabajadores lo recomiendo 100x100 si os gusta la naturalezaPosted on Marta STrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Experiencia inmejorable con todos los guías, no tengo palabras. En especial con Fabio y Denis, increíble lo que sabían de todo y lo bien que lo explicaban todo. Cleo se sacó un caimán del agua! Milton, cuidalos porque valen mucho!!Posted on Alexandre SchadTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Merci à Milton, Denis et Fabio pour cette expérience en Amazonie ! J'ai choisi l'excursion pendant deux jours, et je peux vous dire qu'il s'agit de gens sérieux, organisés, sympas, et qui vont vous faire vivre l'Amazonie au delà de vos espérances, Muito ObrigadoPosted on Дмитрий БойкоTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Очень интересная экскурсия на целый день, команда- профессионалы! Впечатлений море! Спасибо вам!Posted on NTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Full day River Day Tour in April 2025. We were on a cruise ship and organised the tour in advance. Milton’s communication via email was fantastic. This tour is jam packed with activities: -swimming with pink dolphins - who are roaming freely in the Rio Negro and are free to come and go (this was amazing!) -visit to comunidade Indígena Cipiá - great introduction to native culture of indigenous tribes in Amazonia (also a highlight) -lunch on a floating restaurant (delicious) -visit to floating village - great way to see how the locals live in the Amazon River -visit to Pirarucu fish farm (largest fresh water fish with scales in the world) - here we fed the fish using fishing rods without hooks (lots of fun) -experience up close the meeting of the rivers Amazon and Negro (fascinating) Our guide Marcelo was so enthusiastic and provided the most interesting information about the Amazon. Our boat captain Gilmar always made sure we were comfortable in the boat. I highly recommend this tour. We had the best day ever!Posted on Anton HuberTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Amazing tour, shoutout to Dennis. We were just two people but they still didn't cancel the trip and instead gave us a private tour. We chose the River tour. We were picked up at 7:30 am and dropped off at our hotel at 5 pm. We saw all kinds of animals. Truly the best tour!
Posted on christine marsilleTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Super bien organisé le chauffeur et Denis sont vraiment très sympas .On a passé une excellente journée avec le must la rencontre avec les botosPosted on Rickalictic FieldTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Amazing experience. Highly recommend. Guides were great, felt safe the whole time even with the wildlife around 😄Posted on Carlos KirchdorferTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Sehr gut strukturierte 2-Tages Tour! Ich kann diese Agentur nur weiterempfehlen. Milton und sein Team haben sich sehr viel Mühe gegeben, um uns die verschiedenen Facetten das Amazonas zu zeigen. Sei es das Schwimmen mit Delphinen, das Aufspüren von Kaimanen oder der Besuch bei den Indigenen, stets wurden wir bestens informiert und geführt. Auch die Nacht im Amazonas war erlebnisreich (und recht laut). Alles in allem eine klare Empfehlung.Posted on Idana savenTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. We absolutely loved this tour. Our guide was so knowledgeable and made it an even better experience. We particularly loved the dolphin encounter. Would definitely recommend this!Posted on Cristian FernandezTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Una experiencia muy bonita , con un trato ejemplar por parte de los trabajadores lo recomiendo 100x100 si os gusta la naturalezaPosted on Marta STrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Experiencia inmejorable con todos los guías, no tengo palabras. En especial con Fabio y Denis, increíble lo que sabían de todo y lo bien que lo explicaban todo. Cleo se sacó un caimán del agua! Milton, cuidalos porque valen mucho!!Posted on Alexandre SchadTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Merci à Milton, Denis et Fabio pour cette expérience en Amazonie ! J'ai choisi l'excursion pendant deux jours, et je peux vous dire qu'il s'agit de gens sérieux, organisés, sympas, et qui vont vous faire vivre l'Amazonie au delà de vos espérances, Muito ObrigadoPosted on Дмитрий БойкоTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Очень интересная экскурсия на целый день, команда- профессионалы! Впечатлений море! Спасибо вам!Posted on NTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Full day River Day Tour in April 2025. We were on a cruise ship and organised the tour in advance. Milton’s communication via email was fantastic. This tour is jam packed with activities: -swimming with pink dolphins - who are roaming freely in the Rio Negro and are free to come and go (this was amazing!) -visit to comunidade Indígena Cipiá - great introduction to native culture of indigenous tribes in Amazonia (also a highlight) -lunch on a floating restaurant (delicious) -visit to floating village - great way to see how the locals live in the Amazon River -visit to Pirarucu fish farm (largest fresh water fish with scales in the world) - here we fed the fish using fishing rods without hooks (lots of fun) -experience up close the meeting of the rivers Amazon and Negro (fascinating) Our guide Marcelo was so enthusiastic and provided the most interesting information about the Amazon. Our boat captain Gilmar always made sure we were comfortable in the boat. I highly recommend this tour. We had the best day ever!Posted on Anton HuberTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Amazing tour, shoutout to Dennis. We were just two people but they still didn't cancel the trip and instead gave us a private tour. We chose the River tour. We were picked up at 7:30 am and dropped off at our hotel at 5 pm. We saw all kinds of animals. Truly the best tour!