Amazon 3.0 -- Part Four

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Amazon 3.0 -- Part 4 -- Continuing Up the Orinoco

June 27-30

This set of photos is from June 27 to June 30 as we continued up the Orinoco on Iguana.

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Photos

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Back on the Orinoco -- Lucho in foreground

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Ascending the Orinoco, the Bongo following

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On the Orinoco

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Rainstorm on the Orinoco. We had many of these.

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Orinoco Sunset

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Egrets. There are many of them here.

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Hoatzin. One of the few birds with a digestive system that allows it to live by grazing.

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Hanging nests. Possibly the Moriche Oriole -- Plenty of nests, but I never saw the bird.

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Hanging Nests

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Tepui. These tabletop mountains are characteristic of the terrain from the Orinoco east in this part of Venezuela. Much of the voyage has been through flat land, but we are now entering a more mountainous region.

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Tepui

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Morning Mist on the Orinoco

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Palm with Fruit

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Heading off on a sidetrip to a small community. Lucho and Natalia made many of these trips -- to visit, keep up contacts, and to buy provisions for the trip. Part of their travel philosophy is to support the small local communities by buying provisions from them when possible.

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Many of the smallest communities are well hidden -- up small streams that would be impossible for a stranger to find.

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Entrance to a small and well-hidden community

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The kids here enjoyed having Lucho and Natalia's boys as new soccer challengers

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Almost every community had a parrot or two hanging around

Comments

[MarcusB]

Hello Mr.Kit Taylor
I live in Brasília/Brazil, and I have made some travels on the Amazom rivers. The last one was in Rio Madeira and Amazonas From Porto Velho to Santarém. If you want a can send you the adress of my blog. I am planinng a trip stasting in Puerto Ayacucho to Cocuy, and than to São Gabriel to Manaus by Rio Negro. I am having some dificult to have information how to rent a boat in Puerto Ayacucho, I triend some e-mail to Selvadentro and I dind't have no respond. I am traving maybe alone. Allso I dind't find no e-mail of Turist Company's in Puerto Ayacucho. My e-mail is; [e-mail]