However, the past weekend - did give us chance to get our there and feel truely lost - in a good way - sort of like being at the end of the world in a magical landscape where everything is just quiet, beautiful and alive at the same time.
We sailed up river about an hour or two to get into the actual reserve - passing parts of the river that seemed to "bubble" with the presence of little fish, soon to be followed by hundreds of birds trying to catch said fish, followed by dolphins going in for the clean up.
We went to a little village, visiting some of the people the reserve is trying to help and witnessed a very different lifestyle (showers in the river, while cleaning fish at the same for example) and finally got the visit the EcoLodge for drinks and giggles, to canoe 3 kilometers in near complete silence through the Varzea (flooded forest -- the water level here varies by 12meters between wet & dry seasons!) and finally spend the night in a floating research station, waiting for the pet aligator Sophia to join us for breakfast...
Entering the Wild...
Ribeirinho ("river-dweller") housing - note how beautiful it is here when the sun comes out -- not to mention the resulting heat and scalp burn!.
"Cell phone"???
Never thought the Amazon could be like this - but it was in multiple places - just dead quiet and looking like a big beautiful (green) mirror.
Brazil Nut tree.
Passion Fruit flower.
Our Canoe guide Geraldo about to take us into the the Varzea.
Inside the flooded forest - the light is amazing in there, but unfortunately very hard to capture well.
A beautiful day coming to an end.
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