DAY 4 OF THE AMAZON BOAT TRIP (20/04/09)
Dawn.
The jungle at this point was incredibly dense, there are an amazing variety of different plants and trees.
The local fishermen with their nets.
Some of the houses were partially hidden by the jungle.
Almost every settlement that we passed had a small church like this one. Most of those who live along the river are indigenous people who were converted by missionaries, the unconverted tend to stay hidden away from the river.
This person must be proud of their garden full of tulips.
There were only a couple of other tourists on the boat, everyone else was Brazilian, mostly indigenous origin. Liz snapped this family sitting down for lunch.
To utilise our suddenly large amounts of free time we decided to do a bit of planning for Peru and Ecuador. This little local boy was very interested in what we were doing, especially the map of South America. Adam was trying to show him where we were on the map (even though he didn´t exactly know himself!).
After the high rainfall many homes were only accessible by boat.
The weather changes amazingly quickly on the Amazon. Within the space of half an hour it went from sunshine to this.
And then within another hour back to this.
Enjoying the boat trip - Adam even more than expected, Liz considerably more than expected.
We said that we weren´t going to put too many sunsets on but there was such a variation of spectacualr skies we couldn´t choose between them.
One side of the sky was brilliant yellows, the other reds.
A combination of the two.
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