The Rio Negro and
Solomon River (I can't remember the Portuguese name for that one)
meet to form the Amazon, but because of the different speed, density,
and temperature of the two rivers, they flow together but separately
for quite some distance before they completely merge. It's super
cool to see; you can literally see a line down the middle of the
river!
Cindy asked me to
French braid her hair on the boat, and while I was doing it, this
cute girl (~10) kept looking at us. [She and her parents were in our
group basically the whole trip, but she only seemed to know about 10
words of English and no Portuguese, so we sort of became
smile-buddies :) Their whole family was so cute!] Anyway, she kept
looking over, so we asked if she wanted her hair braided. She said
yes! I'm not really sure why I was so excited, but it was so fun to
feel like I made a friend in Manaus. So here's a picture of us with
our matching braids (even though I started hers a little lower on her
head so you can't actually tell it's braided haha).
Then they said
goodbye and got off the boat, while we headed to a little floating
restaurant, complete with monkeys! I have about a million pictures,
but since I did an entire post on monkeys before, I'll just post two
:)
After that, we went to meet these guys:
After that, we went to meet these guys:
Yes, that would be
a SLOTH and an ANACONDA!
Yes, I held both of
them. Yes, it was awesome.
YES, you should be jealous. :)
In the afternoon we
had a hike/nature walk through the AMAZON. They showed us all kinds
of cool things, like where certain types of seeds can be found, clove
vines (like the little cloves, but it's an entire vine, so you can
cut off sections of the vine and use it to flavor tea and stuff),
ants that can be squished on your hands to create “Indian Perfume”
or a natural bug repellant, and even how to build/set off certain
types of traps!
Do I look like I
fit into the Amazon?
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