Friday, December 20, 2024

Rio Amazonas

We traveled up river from Santarem to Tabatinga with a stopover in Manaus. Unfortunately, a terrible stomach bug and dehydration sidelined us for our time in Manaus. 


The start of our journey up the river from Santarem.






Reading in the dark.

Who are these bananas for?


Arrived 48 hours later in Manaus.




Teatro Amazonas


More up river until the border in Tabatinga.

Thursday, December 12, 2024

Floresta Nacional do Tapajós

 

A very long drive to Santarém.


A pizza island in a sea of rice and beans.


See you soon river dolphins.

Bata leading the way with his shark boat. Into the jungle we go.

Sapinho

Lara has an attitude.


Foreshadowing.



These are both Eva.

Looking (unsucessfully) for Caiman.



Wild cacao.


Bees in a hive.

More frogs. Poison dart frogs are too fast to photograph.

The canopy of the trees never touch.



Poor sleepy bats can't catch a break from me.



Natural lazy river in the jungle.


Spider monkey sleeping in the tree. We saw many other types of monkeys.

Wild maracuya flower.

Tricking a tarantula to come out and see us.

A two-toed sloth come to visit us and eat some tasty mangos.


Tucuxi dolphin in the Rio Tapajós

Back in Santarem.