The Amazon Is Not a Destination

Some places ask you to slow down. The Amazon asks you to remember.

Not remember facts or history, but something much older—the part of yourself that knows how to listen before speaking, observe before judging, and belong instead of consume.

That is why I created INSamaúma.

Not as a travel company, but as a bridge between worlds.

For more than seventeen years, I've worked alongside Indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon, learning from elders, supporting community-led initiatives, and guiding people into one of the most extraordinary ecosystems on Earth with deep respect for those who have protected it for generations.

My relationship with the forest didn't begin when I started leading expeditions.

It began long before.

As the great-granddaughter of an Indigenous woman and the daughter of environmental activists, I grew up understanding that the forest isn't a resource—it is family. Nature, spirituality, science, and ancestral knowledge were never separate ideas. They were simply different ways of understanding the same living world.

When you travel with INSamaúma, you're not checking experiences off a list.

You might learn to weave with an Indigenous artisan, paddle through flooded forests at sunrise, sit around a fire listening to stories passed through generations, or share a meal prepared from ingredients gathered that very day.

But the most meaningful moments are often the ones you could never plan. A conversation. A silence. The sound of rain on the canopy. The feeling of realizing that the forest is not performing for you—it is simply allowing you to be present.

We work only with communities that choose to welcome visitors, and every journey is built through long-term relationships based on trust, reciprocity, and respect. Part of every experience directly supports Indigenous-led initiatives and local projects, because conservation is strongest when the people who have always protected the forest can continue doing so.

I believe travel can be an exchange instead of an extraction. It can leave both the visitor and the place stronger than before.

If you feel called to the Amazon, I hope you'll come with curiosity, humility, and an open heart.

The forest has been waiting far longer than any of us.

And when the time is right, it has a way of calling people home.