6-day tours compared
Two very different ways to spend six days inland
Blue Bird offers two six-day trips. Both head deep into the interior and on both you sleep in a hammock, but beyond that they have little in common. The Gran Rio Sintiadam Expedition is a continuous expedition: every day you move further upstream. The Back-to-Basic tour at Jungle Resort Pingpe uses the resort as a fixed base, with three days of jungle camp from there. That difference in setup also explains the difference in price.
Gran Rio or Pingpe?
The same length of trip, a very different journey. Below both tours stand side by side, point by point.
Gran Rio Sintiadam Expedition
€ 835 p.p.
- Area — Gran Rio, deep interior
- Character — a continuous expedition, you keep moving on
- Sleeping — every night in hammock camps
- Journey there — ± 7 hours: 3 by bus and 4 by boat; in the dry season the boat takes 5 to 6 hours
- Departure — 08:00 from Torarica Resort, on request
- Return — around 17:00 on the final day
- Guiding — wildlife guide and boatman
- Included — transport, accommodation, all meals, snacks and soft drinks
- Not included — breakfast on the departure day and dinner on the final day
- Minimum — 4 people
- Physical — intensive; asks for mental and physical preparation
- Cancellation — up to 15 days 75% refunded, 14 to 7 days 50%, later no refund
- Special — Turtle Mountain, learning to fish and cook the traditional way, village walks in Maroon communities
Jungle Resort Pingpe — Back-to-Basic
€ 430 p.p.
- Area — Upper Suriname
- Character — the resort as a fixed base, with three days of jungle camp
- Sleeping — three nights in a hammock with mosquito net by a creek, the other nights at the resort
- Journey there — ± 6 hours: 2.5 by bus to Atjoni and 3.5 by dugout canoe; flying on request
- Departure — pick-up between 8:00 and 8:30 in central Paramaribo
- Return — on request
- Guiding — local guide from the area, Dutch and English speaking
- Included — guide, all activities, three meals a day with drinks, snacks and fruit, transport to and from Pingpe
- Not included — alcoholic drinks and transport to and from Zorg & Hoop airport
- Minimum — on request
- Physical — physically active
- Cancellation — on request
- Special — fishing for anjoemara, bathing in the sula, dugout canoe on the Upper Suriname River
Which one suits you?
Choose Gran Rio if you want to see the deepest interior and are willing to really let go of comfort. Six nights in a row in a hammock, a new place every day, and survival skills as part of the trip. Count on solid preparation and on a group of at least four.
Choose Pingpe if you want the jungle experience without every night being a camp. You have a fixed point to fall back on, three days genuinely into the jungle, and you pay almost half. The local guide comes from the area itself.
Still unsure? Let us know — we know both partners and are glad to think along.
Where are these tours? Read more about Upper Suriname & the interior, the area both trips head into.
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