The Diamond’s Route

An excellent tour for all ages, visiting the best attractions from North to South around the Chapada Diamantina National Park, including the Pai Inácio Mountain, the Buracão waterfall, and the Blue Pool. It’s an easy and fun way to see the Chapada Diamantina without exaggerating on the walking.

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Tour schedule

1st day: ARRIVAL IN LENÇÓIS

Reception at the Lençóis airport (or the Lençóis Bus Station) and transfer to your hotel.

Overnight in Lençóis

2nd day: HIKE TO PRIMAVERA WATERFALL AND RIBEIRÃO DO MEIO POOL

In the morning, a good hike to the Lençóis River with its beautiful pools and interesting rock formation including our fantastic polished quartzite conglomerates. You’ll stop for a swim at the Primavera Waterfall and then walk back along the other side of the river, taking in some amazing views of the town of Lençóis. Return for lunch in town. In the afternoon, there’s a visit to the Ribeirão do Meio River – with a large pool and natural rock slide.

Overnight in Lençóis

3rd day: THE LAPA DOCE CAVE, PRATINHA AND BLUE CAVE, PAI INACIO MOUNTAIN

Pick up at 8:30 a.m. This tour is mostly by car, with short hikes to three places on the northern edge of the National Park. In the morning, you’ll head to Iraquara, the regional Cave Capital, to walk through the enormous limestone Lapa Doce cave with its huge rock formations, stalactites and columns. After the cave, you’ll enjoy a delicious regional lunch and visit the Pratinha Farm and the impressive blue cave impressive Blue Cave.

In the afternoon you will hike to the top of the Morro do Pai Inácio Mountain (20 minutes), perhaps the most famous postcard-view of the Chapada Diamantina. At the top of this sandstone table-mountain you’ll have an impressive 360° view of the peaks and valleys of the Chapada Diamantina, and the National Park itself, and be able to watch the sunset before returning to Lençóis.

 

Overnight in Lençóis

4th day: MOSQUITO WATERFALL AND POCO DO DIABO WATERFALL

A visit to the beautiful 50m high Mosquito waterfall. Pick-up at 8:30 a.m. and then by car to a farm next to the trail that will take us to the the foot of the falls. Later on, you’ll walk up to the top of the waterfall where there are many other nice pools for swimming. Lunch break, and then return to Lençóis at around 6 p.m.

Overnight in Lençóis

5th day: THE MARIMBUS PANTANAL - MUCUGÊ

This trip involves a boat tour along the Santo Antônio River in the swamplands near Lençóis. Pick-up at 8:30 and a 1.5 hour car ride to the fishing village of Remanso to start the boat ride. The trip includes the boating, a visit to the Roncador River and its many cascades, and a great lunch with regional food. In the afternoon, you’ll travel by jeep from the Roncador River to the town of Mucugê.

Overnight in Mucugê

6th day: THE BURACÃO WATERFALL

This is definitely one of the most beautiful waterfalls in the Chapada Diamantina! Pick-up at 8:00 a.m. and transfer by car to the town of Ibicoara to visit the Buracão waterfall – an impressive 100m high falls surrounded by breathtaking and colorful canyons. The falls can be visited both from the top and from the bottom (by swimming between high canyon walls in the river).

Lunch break at the Orquídeas waterfall and a return trip to the little village of Igatu.

 

Overnight in Igatu

7th day: IGATU, POÇO ENCANTADO AND POÇO AZUL

The village of Igatu is known as the City of Stones because of its peculiar architecture and the exclusive use of stones as building materials. You will visit the mining period ruins and the art gallery in the morning, and then go by car to the Poço Encantado, an impressive blue water pool inside a wide limestone cave, where we can enjoy a shaft of sunlight crossing the water until the bottom, at 60m deep.

Next, you will visit the Poço Azul – another impressive underground pool of crystal blue water, where it’s possible to do some snorkeling. After the swim, a delicious home-cooked lunch before our return to Lençóis

Overnight in Lençóis

8th day: RETURN

Despedida e traslado até o aeroporto ou rodoviária de Lençóis

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