Escaping Civilization: My Week in a Remote Jungle Cabin. Everything in the Amazon is remote. Our fishing cabin was more than a 4-hour boat ride to the nearest village with a road or a landing strip for a bush plane. Accommodations were spartan, but comfortable and the food was all local, fresh and tasty. The…
The Amazon rainforest is a realm of unparalleled beauty, teeming with exotic wildlife and mystical secrets. One of the most enchanting creatures that call this lush wilderness home is the elusive Amazon river dolphin, famously known as the pink dolphin. Swimming with these graceful creatures is an adventure like no other, an experience that promises…
I was fortunate to visit several Indigenous villages In the Amazon during my trip. Including a Floating Indigenous Village in the Amazon. This village is 30-minute boat ride from Manaus and all the homes float on the river. Some have electricity, but most don’t. It is complete with their own school, local market and shops,…
Nothing about the Amazon is easy and everything is remote. Getting to the lodge for a week’s expedition was an adventure by itself. See video of trip at bottom of post. Bush Plane over the Amazon First we took a 2-hour bush plane ride from Manaus to the Rio Roosevelt lodge. Once we crossed the…
Every day during our weeklong Amazon Fishing Expedition we made a riverside campsite for our lunch and siesta (sesta in Portuguese.) Choosing a Site Our campsite were chosen with care, a cool shady spot by the river, sometimes on an island. We made sure there were no animals, especially snakes, bees, biting ants or mosquitos…
Manaus, Brazil is the capital of the state of Amazonas and was the epic center of the late 19th and early 20th century rubber boom-bust cycle. Think dot-com boom bust but with indentured workers in near slave like conditions living in jungle huts instead of silicone valley condos. During my trip to the Amazon I…
Ferry boats in the Amazon are a lifeline for the many villages and cities along the Amazon, Rio Negro and many of the other tributaries, both big and small. Connecting Communities These boats connect the communities with the outside world, deliver goods and materials as well as people and commerce through the Amazon region, which…
The Amazon is so vast and with a tall dense canopy the best way to appreciate the enormity, one must see it from above! So How big is the Amazon, really?! At 6.9 million square kilometers (2.72 million square miles), the Amazon Basin is roughly the size of the forty-eight contiguous United States and covers some 40 percent of…
One of my favorite things to do when I travel is to visit the local market. To really understand a culture, food is at the center. While I have been to Brazil many many times over the last 35+ years and married to a Brazilian, this was my first trip to the Amazon. So, I…
Not sure where to start, but I am back from 2 weeks in the Amazon jungle, fishing, exploring and enjoying a full Amazon adventure. While I have a lot to unpack and write, content wise, here’s the highlights. Stay tuned for more detailed posts and videos on each of these topics. Manaus I spent 4…
