Saturday afternoon on Ipanema
A view from my hotel room
Sugar loaf (Pao de acucar)
Sugar loaf
sugar canes in sugar loaf
walking around sugar loaf
Rio on a hazy day (I'll be back!)
The keynote speakers of SBBD 2007
Meat, more meat, and more meat.
coconut checkerboard, Joao Pessoa
Fruit, anyone?
This boat brought me to EcoPark (in pitch dark)
"entrance" to EcoPark, on the Rio Negro, Manaus
My room at the EcoPark
A plant in the lobby.
The lobby of EcoPark
A cashew tree (and i thought they grew at costco)
The cashew fruit (see the nut on the bottom?)
The general view from EcoPark
The food was so good there, even the birds came to part-take.
Antonio, the guide, upon leaving for the jungle walk. See the knife?
Finally, real cinnamon!
A tree being strangled to death
Before cellphones, they used to communicate by knocking on this tree.
Termites. Next time you complain about yours, keep this in mind.
A hummingbird on a leaf.
Making gun powder from scratch. And...
kappoof!
Wait a minute Tarzan...
You've got competition!
A friendly monkey
monkey yoga
An Amazonian redhead
Fishing. I caught the one on the right. (Yes, i threw it back into the water)
This guy stayed a the lodge on a regular basis.
Just imagine if I'd wake up a few minutes earlier...
Local indigenous Indians
The local music scene
The meeting of the rivers. The Rio Negro and Rio Solimoes come together to form the Amazon river. Note how the colors of the water are drastically different (as are their temperatures and their PH).
Meeting of the rivers
