About Us
Santarém Travels and Tour Ltd.
Santarém Travels and Tour
Tourism agency founded in 1992. Specialized in adventure tourism in the Tapajós region.
From a friendly meeting between a businessman from Santarém, a Brazilian woman in love with the Amazon and a Swiss traveler, Santarém Viagens e Turismo was born.
Jean Pierre, a tour guide who had experience of ecotourism in the region of Manaus, Glenn Malheiros, tourism agent in Santarém and Pepa Herin, secretary of Glenn's agency who was born in the Amazon and a defender of the region.
In the 1990s, the initial idea was to make Ecotourism - a modality not explored until then - in the Amazon, trips of discoveries in the forests of the region of Santarém (National Forest of the Tapajós) and Itaituba (National Park of the Amazon). Regions still little known by tourists from Brazil and the world.
It was with the idea of working in receptive tourism, making trips to discover the region, that was born Santarém Travels and Adventures. Currently, it is Santarém Travel and Tourism. In 1992, the amazonian agency participated in Eco Rio 92, with a stand publicizing the region.
Mapa da região do Rio Tapajós
Soon, Santarém Viagens was chosen to make the receptive as an operating agency of the Tropical Hotels in Santarém. Already in the 2000s, it started the Sport fishing modality in preserved areas, taking clients interested in knowing and divulging the region, besides fishing with responsibility and sustainability. Among the first visitors, Santarém Viagens e Turismo received a commercial team from Mc Donald Brazil, who visited the region of Trombetas river. Representatives of the European community also ventured through the region with the receptive agency of Santarém.
One of the great challenges for Santarém Travel and Tourism was to prepare all the logistics to receive the team that filmed the clip of Pop Star Michael Jackson, when the singer recorded in the region of Santarém a part of the album “History”. Another international participation of the agency was during the recording of the film Anaconda, recorded in Manaus, with the agency's logistical support.
In these almost three decades of activity in the Amazon, with a serious, safe and differentiated work, Santarém Viagens e Turismo brings in the experience, also, with great events such as when, for years, it hosted the “Iles du Soleil Rally”, with more than 30 sail boats on a visit to the Amazon.
Currently, the agency offers adventure travel and Amazonian discovery, always in cooperation with the traditional communities of the region, valuing the handicrafts, customs and experience of the residents of the villages that receive tourists throughout the year. In Santarém Viagens e Turismo there are many ways to operationalize the knowledge of the Amazon region, but the main objective is only one: to develop Eco-tourism with responsibility. Thus, it receives cruise ships, since the year 2000, in partnership with the Agency Amazon Star.
With a team of young and experienced guides who speak English and French, under the coordination of the directors of the agency, Pepa Herin and Pierre Schwarz, Santarém Viagens e Turismo will provide you with a journey of discovery, stories, knowledge and typical cuisine of the northern region of Brazil.