Samstag, 21. November 2009

Story of jungle trip part1

So I decided to write the story of my trip to Jaú National park in Amazonas, and in English to make it possible for my friends to read :)
As you see in my pics it was a real adventure and an experience which, not every body is able to do it.
So the story began in first week of my Brazil stay, in the afternoon me and my friends where in city center of Manaus and we were visiting the Teatro do amazonas there a south American guy started to talk with us and he explained that he is a jungle guide and he would like to make a tour with us. And we were looking for a tour so after checking his loyalty we started the trip with him. we were 5 guys . 1 American 3 Germans and me we started the trip at Friday night in Manaus harbor. this name “Harbor“ is actually too much for the place we catches the ship it was just a temporary platform where people could walk in the ship through a ladder. A problem of the cities which are at the coast of Rio Negro is that the water depth changes with in the rainy season so about 10 to 15 meters so the ship platform must be a floating one to survive this change. Any way the ship had two floors where people were hanging their hang mats in order to sleep over night because the trip would be about 9 hours. About 50 hang mats made a beautiful image on the ship and in the top it was a bar and seats to enjoy the air. You must know that all of these stuff are not in a high class and clean style but there are very normal people and unfortunately the hygienic state of the facilities is terrible almost every where in Amazonas. so the ship started and we found a place for our hang mats and after some drinks everybody where asleep. In the morning a beautiful sunrise waked us up and a cool but warm breeze made our lungs fresh  it’s the best air full of oxygen and beautiful images of jungle and water. At 5 am we arrived at city of NOVOAIRAO a little city in the middle of nowhere. We spent the day in a family house who knew our guide we had breakfast and went to buy all stuff we needed for the next 3 days because after this city there were no shops and no electricity. After breakfast in a tiny house which was made of wood we went to the river to swim with the pink dolphins of Rio Negro , an interesting vision where the dolphins swim to you and get a fish from your hand in a very natural environment and without any trainers and you could jump in water and feel their skin. There are actually not real dolphins and the natives call them Botos , and the people of this city believe in some stories about this animal that in the night they become men and sleep with girls of this city , so if a girls becomes pregnant and doesn’t know who the father is ,the people will say that this dolphin made her pregnant.
About 3 pm we get ready to get the boat to the jungle but as usual here the boat was not ready so we waited for more 2 hours. The fishing boat started lately under the captain pedros order. We passed very slowly but secure thrown the branches of big rio negro having fun on the top of the tiny boat . in the night we lost our way because of dark and the fact that in the jungle every sight looks the same. So we prepared our selves for sleeping on the boat or some where at the jungle. So we stopped and made some fire on the little sand area and fried some chicken . its was not a comfortable night to sleep in the boat because of 10 guys in one tiny boat. .....

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