AMAZON 5000 - The Impossible, Possible !

0: Amazon 5000 Route

1: Extended leg

2: PACIFIC OCEAN

3: Pedernales, Pacific shores of Ecuador - Checkpoint 1 *May 15, 2012

4: Pedernales ECUADOR - A5K Expedition initiation point

5: LEG 1 - Padernales to Las Delicias (Estimated 1 week)

6: El Canaveral - Leg 1

The Pacific Rolling Hills

7: Leg 1

8: LEG 2 - Las Delicias to Mindo (Estimated 2 weeks)

 

9: La Concordia, Ecuador - Checkpoint 2 *May 22, 2012

10: Rio Blanco - Leg 2

11: Los Bancos - Leg 2

12: San Miguel de Los Bancos, Ecuador - Checkpoint 3 *June 5, 2012

Expedition team members meetup location

13: LEG 3 - Mindo to Guayllabamba (Estimated 2 weeks)

14: Tandayapa - Leg 3

15: Nono - Leg 3

Terrain: Quito western vally

16: Calacali - Leg 3

17: Mitad del Mundo - The Equator- ECUADOR

18: Rumicucho - Leg 3

19: The V to Pisce river

Rounding the edge of the "bump" at the Pisce River V

20: Rio Pisce Valley

Terrain: Pisce River Valley

21: The Bridge to Guayllabamba Marker

Reference point at the bridge to Guayllabamba

22: to Guayllabamba

Climbing to the Eastern side begins
Terrain: Paramo

23: to Guayllabamba

24: To Guayllabamba

25: entering Guayllabamba

26: Zoologico de Quito Ecuador

27: El Jardin de Guayllabamba, Ecuador Checkpoint 4 *June 19, 2012

Expedition team members meetup location

28: LEG 4 - Guyllabamba to El Chaco (Estimated 3 weeks)

29: Inkas Old stone road trail -Leg 4

30: Leg 4

 

31: Leg 4

32: Leg 4

33: Leg 4

34: Leg 4

35: Leg 4

36: Israriego - Leg 4

 
Reference point.
Riego con tecnologia Israeli - Greenhouse project

37: El Quinche

The TABLON mountain ridge

Optional - Expedition team members meetup location

38: Oyacachi - Old Inka trail

39: El Chaco

El Chaco, Ecuador
End of Leg 4

40: Baeza - ECUADOR - Checkpoint 5 *July 10, 2012

41: LEG 5 - San francisco de Borja to Coca (Estimated 8 weeks)

42: Leg 5 - penetrating the Eastern Andes

43: Leg 5

Climbing begins

44: Leg 5

Cloud forest gorges

45: Leg 5

Dense vegitation

46: Leg 5

Crawling game trail holes

47: Sumaco Volcano ridge - ECUADOR

Orientation Land Mark

48: Sumaco Volcano Eastern Andes - Leg 5

Leg 5 continues

49: Down the Eastern Andes

50: Down to the Orient

51: San Jose de Suno

52: San Jose de Payamino

53: Rio Payamino Bridge

reference point at Rio Payamino

54: Coca - Napo River - ECUADOR

55: La Mission - Ecuador - Checkpoint 6 *September 4, 2012

56: LEG 6 - Coca to Mazan (Estimated 3 weeks)

Francisco de Orellana - beginning of Leg 6 on Napo River. The River journey begins here.

57: Napo River - Leg 6

58: Sacha Lodge - Rio Napo - Ecuador

Guests destination - potential

59: Nuevo Rocafuerto ECUADOR

Ecuador boarder with Peru
Leg 6 - Optional Checkpoint (water way only)

60: Iquitos - PERU - Checkpoint 7 *September 25, 2012

From Lima Peru International Airport
to Iquitos Airport
Expedition team members meetup location

61: LEG 7 - Mazan to Tabatinga - the AMAZON RIVER (Estimated 2 weeks)

62: Tabatinga - BRAZIL - Checkpoint 8 *October 2, 2012

 

63: LEG 8 - Tabatinga to Tefe (Estimated 6 weeks)

64: Benjamin Constant - Brazil

65: Tefe - Brazil - Checkpoint 9 *November 13, 2012

Expedition team members meetup location

66: LEG 9 - Tefe to Coari (Estimated 1 week)

67: Coari - Brazil -Checkpoint 10 *November 20, 2012

Expedition team members meetup location

68: LEG 10 - Coari to Manaus (Estimated 2 weeks)

69: Manaus - Brazil - Checkpoint 11 *December 4, 2012

Expedition team members meetup location

70: LEG 11 - Manaus to Santarem (Estimated 2 weeks)

71: Santarem - Brazil - Checkpoint 12 *December 18, 2012

Expedition team members meetup location

72: LEG 12 - Santarem to Colares (estimated 4 weeks)

Checkpoint 12
Brazil

73: Afua - Brazil

Reference point - ATLANTIC OCEAN
Mouth of the Amazon River

74: The Sweetwater Sea!

AMAZON 5000 Expedition disembark at the Mar Dulce, the "Sweetwater Sea" - The Mouth of the AMAZON River

75: ATLANTIC OCEAN

76: Belem - Brazil

77: Colares - Meet the expedition team *January 15, 2013

78: to NATAL

79: ATLANTIC OCEAN

NATAL - Extended leg ends at
Forte dos Reis Magos