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We've experienced the Amazon from a boat, now it's time for us to embark into the jungle itself. We booked a cheap jungle tour, $30 US each per day, because the more expensive tours (that can range from $80 to $300 per day) still offer the same jungle. The cheap tour means that you must supply your own mosquito repellant. | |||
The
meeting of the tourist boats at the meeting of the waters. Near Manaus the ink
black Rio Negro flows into the toffee colored Rio Solimoes at a place called,
what else, the "meeting of the waters." It looks like a giant chemistry
experiment. | |||
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Our jungle lodge sits on
the Rio Negro. The dark, acidic waters cannot support mosquito larvae, so we can
sit around without mosquito nets covering our bodies. | |||
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World famous Amazon fishing,
all I can catch are small piranhas and a curidu fish that looks like a white eel.
Smaller curidus are known to swim, or burrow, into any human orifice. That includes,
gentlemen, your...ahem...let's just say you shouldn't go skinny dipping in the
Amazon. | |||