The Transamazon Highway

A 3000 km bicycle tour through the heart of the Amazon

The following pages document a self-organized, self-contained bicycle expedition through the Brazilian Amazon.

Only two roads cross this huge area: one from Boa Vista in the far north of Brazil via Manaus and Porto Velho to Cuiabá, the gateway to the Pantanal swamps. The other, known as the Transamazônica, runs east-west from the Atlantic Ocean to the Brazilian state of Acre, on the Bolivian and Peruvian border.

This bicycle tour along the Transamazon highway was performed in October and November 1999, covering approximately 3.000 km from the Atlantic Ocean at Belém through Parßa, Amazonas, Rondônia and Acre to Rio Branco at the Bolivian/Peruvian border.

When preparing for this trip, very little information was available on the web or in books. This page might help others plan a trip through this beautiful part of the world.