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Our Amazon jungle tripFeb 19, 2005
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THe BEEEE-autiful Hotel Ideal in Manaus (looks alright in the photo...don´t be...
the Docks at Manaus handle soooo many Nanas it´s shocking!!
Nix and myself at the meeting of the Rio Negro and the...
| Here are some photos of our jungle trip in the Amazon. As I think Tim explained we spent pretty much the best part of two days searching and being ´tóuted at´ in order to find the right trip. It appears touting is a rife business here and once the word spreads that virgin trekkers are in town you are literally hounded night and day. Nevertheless we managed to find something that suited us and joined by some people we had meet we set off. As the jungle we were going to was 70 kms from the lovely Manaus we had to catch a boat. The hightlight of the boat ride was supposed to be the meeting of the Rio Negro (the back water) and Rio Solimoes (the muddy water)however due to pouring rain the meeting of the water looked more like an oil slick on dirty water! Our home for the next couple of days was a floating lodge and on arrival we were issued with some rather interesting hammocks and told to pick a spot! That afternoon we spent Piranhna fishing. Davey was the first lucky sole to catch one and from then on they did'nt stop biting. I even caught one much to the boys surprise! although I simply could'nt believe the amount of meat we were going through! Piranhnas are hungry b*ggers! The next day we spent aligator hunting and trekking through the jungle. Our aligator wasn`t exactly the biggest I have ever seen - being all of 30cms and about 3 weeks old and our wild life on the jungle trek tended to consist of more types of dangerous insects than anything else. Although we did see a brown tarantula and lots of dolphins. On the last day we were due to spend a night in the jungle itself. I think by the this stage our guide was getting the idea we were very happy to chill out and drink of caiparinhas and play cards.....nothing too exerting. So, armed with our food, hammocks other bits of equipent, off we set. Once we had set up camp, we wandered down to the ´native village` complete with a smeg fridge, bar, pool table and a 20 inch wide screen and television we proceeded to chill out on the river, play cards and have the usual couple of obligatory drinks. It was a really incredible evening sitting around a bonfire and looking at the stars - which were unbelievably clear. The most challenging part of our evening was the actual walk back into the jungle later that night, complete with Davey singing and Tim wealding a machete! That evening, looking forward to a meal that did'nt consist of cold rice, cold spaggetti pasta and fish, we set off back to Manaus! |
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