An Amazon Adventure (Part I)

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May 14th 2011

Published: May 30th 2011

Manaus heralded our arrival by scorching us alive, the heat being so oppressive we were incredibly relieved to discover that our room had air-conditioning. Still, no time to sit around: we had to find a tour company to take us in to the jungle the next day AND book a flight out of Manaus for when we returned. With so many tours sounding incredible it was hard to choose, but we managed to get one b... Read Full Entry

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Cooking our chicken dinner

Our table for dinner...

...and then for breakfast!

Carina with her hammock and mosquito net

The shelter in the jungle

Leaving the jungle camp in the morning in the morning

Cabloco's house

This is the house of the family we visited.

Walking through the high grass to the family's farmland

Their farmland

A banana tree

A pineapple growing

Bananas growing on the tree

Each banana tree will only produce one batch of bananas.

Pulling the rubber straight from the tree

Cutting the bark makes rubber milk flow, which then hardens to form rubber.

Eating guava fresh from the tree

Cooking manioc

Manioc, produced from the roots of manioc trees, is the staple food in the amazon. Poison has to be extracted and then it is cooked in huge pans. The process takes all day and happens maybe once a month.