ECO-PLANET’s adventures of all levels take you into the rural jungle of the Amazon basin and allow you to experience the wild, first-hand, while learning survival skills; it’s an adventure that will allow you to conquer your fears and let you challenge yourself beyond your personal limits.
From the snowcap glaciers of the Andes at 16,500 feet altitude, down to the remote jungle of the Amazon basin at about sea level, ECO-PLANET’s adventures are all about daily challenges: on Levels 2 and 3 the team does a fair amount of extreme expeditions, some of which include hiking 10 miles a day in dense jungle environment – mainly over rough terrain. Other activities include mountain climbing, off-road mountain biking, white water rafting and rappelling of waterfall cascades some of which reach as high as 300 feet. They maneuver their way along the Amazon Basin Rivers by using primitive dugout canoes and self-built Balsa rafts. They practice jungle survival skills as they interact with the remote Amazonian indigenous tribes and encounter endless wildlife, fauna and flora the rainforest offers. Anacondas, jaguars, monkeys, piranhas and toucans are only few to mention.
Years ago, with a far-reaching vision and lots of imagination, Mickey Grosman began dreaming of running Xtreme Challenge Adventures in locations where footprints of men are sparse, yet tracks of wildlife are always abundant. His urge for challenges kept him coming back to the Amazon Rainforest where he was inspired to spread the thrill of eco-adventures travel and the passion for Ecuador’s wild nature with adventurers like himself.
Months of preparations, logistics, innovations and creativity – while staying in the rural jungle and living among the Amazon indigenous – resulted in these amazing adventures that we wish to share with you. Mickey Grosman, the founder of ECO-PLANET ADVENTURE, his life experiences and years of service in the IDF-Israeli Defense Special Forces, accompanied by his immense energy and endless courage, prepared him to overcome any obstacles on his way to achieve such a dream-adventure.
Sharing his eco-adventure plans and logistical solutions with his friends of the Amazon, Mickey found the indigenous to be very curios but somewhat skeptical. No adventure travelers have visited yet their land – located deep within the dense jungle of the Amazon basin. Logistically, having travelers visiting their locations has not been possible, as no roads lead into the remote Rainforest, nor have any river routes followed directly from civilization back to their neck of the woods. Mickey presented the tribes with his eco-adventure plans and technical solutions while focusing on the creation of a co-existent relationship between Nature, the Amazonian indigenous, and ECO-PLANET adventurers.
Understanding their culture and traditional values by listening to their needs, we, at ECO-PLANET ADVENTURE support the development of ecotourism among the small remote communities of Ecuador and provide them with an alternative source of income and a direct economic incentive that strongly and undoubted benefits the Rainforest conservation and reforestation.
The indigenous of the Amazon basin who host ECO-PLANET ADVENTURES are grateful for the support and care pointed their direction, in the shape and in the name of eco-challenge adventures. They are fully involved in the daily activities of our adventures and share with us their life experience in the forest.
At ECO-PLANET ADVENTURE we would love to introduce you first hand to our friends of the Amazon, while taking you on an authentic yet extraordinary travel experience of a multi-sport, eco-challenge and jungle exploration adventures at Ecuador’s highlands and its tropical Rainforest. You will return home with spectacular stories and pictures to share with family and friends in addition to a deeper appreciation of the world we live in.