The taxi ride from the port at Camanaus to Soa Gabriel took about 20-30 minutes, and the scenery was spectacular. The tropical landscape surrounding the houses and farms that we passed on our way by, reminded me of some ritzy, luxurious tropical paradise, like a cross between Miami and Costa Rica. The vegetation was just so… so naked, so fresh, so absolutely luscious. Soa Gabriel Do Cacheoira was situated on a breath taking part of the Rio Negro, not filled exactly with “cacheoiras” (waterfalls), as the name implies, but rather dozens and dozen of small islands, rocks, and raging rapids, with gorgeous towering mountains in the background, and large, pristine, white beaches bordering the shores of the dividing river. The mountains seemed unusually placed, like God’s last decorating touch, because they were just plopped beneath the
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