After an unconvincing and inauspicious start, today proved to be one of the best travelling days we have ever had and certainly the best so far in Brazil; it was the start of our one week rainforest safari, in an area called Mamori, about eighty kilometres south of Manaus. The journey took four hours and it was stunning. It wasn´t a good start to the day, since we were told that we were being picked up between 7.30 and 8.00 a.m. and we were not picked up until 12 midday; some crossed wires somewhere there! Our jungle guide, Marcelo, came to pick us up and journey to Mamori with us. First, we got a car to Ceasa Port, then we took a fast boat down the Rio Negro to the “Meeting of the Waters”, which is
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