visitng a native family´s house

Karolina is looking at a boa that they were keeping in a wooden box (for food apparently), two ladies in the background treated us to some gorgeous sugarcane drink. We aslo tried some local fruit (i´d never heard in my life before) that they grew in the garden.

We are in the Amazon

July 9th 2007
We flew into Manaus on 8th July (from Belem - city at the gateway to the Amazon). Hmmm, in a nutshell Manaus ( approx 1,7 million citizens)is the ugliest city i have ever seen. It seems that the whole place is a massive market where people sell just everything. We knew it would only be our stopover on the way to the real Amazon. Today we came back to Manaus from a 3-day joungle trip into the Amaz ... read more

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