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Amazon Rainforest Trip in Photos – Part 1

There are many tours running out of Manaus that offer trips out into the Amazon Rainforest. We booked ours before we arrived after a bit of internet research, one selling point being staying on a floating river lodge.

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Day 1 we headed out from the port of Manaus to see the “Meeting of the waters” before heading on to the River Lodge where we where to spend 2 nights before heading into the Rainforest for a further 2.

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The river lodge where spent 2 nights, in hammocks on the boat rather than in rooms in the lodge

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The first activity of the tour was a bit of Piranha fishing with bits of meat before heading back in the motorised canoes as the sunset.

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After a pretty decent dinner we headed out in the dark in search of Alligators.

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Our guide kindly pointed out the fat slimy fish that would happily swim up you rear end and eat your insides, nice!
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I dropped this little fellow in the boat which caused a fair bit of alarm, oops!

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7 Responses to “Amazon Rainforest Trip in Photos – Part 1”

  1. Dan Says:
    October 11th, 2009 at 8:36 pm

    Hey,

    Cute aligator!

    There’s lots of chatter about travel over at Cofacio.com .

    Would be great to get some of your expertise. Drop by.

    Dan

  2. Eric Laczi Says:
    October 12th, 2009 at 1:44 am

    Great photos! Do you have part 2 coming soon?

  3. johnny Says:
    November 9th, 2009 at 2:47 pm

    You are so lucky to have seen this, if the trees keep being chopped down it may be all gone before we know it.

  4. Mark H Says:
    December 14th, 2009 at 4:23 am

    Superb photos. Shame the piranha didn’t smile…

  5. marta Says:
    March 14th, 2010 at 8:37 am

    i heard piranhas are good to eat, was that your dinner?

  6. Benedict Adam Says:
    March 15th, 2010 at 7:05 pm

    Fortunately not! We only caught one and there was quite a few of us!

  7. thesmarttraveller Says:
    April 23rd, 2010 at 10:51 am

    Great pics, love the little cayman. Great eyes!

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