Real Amazon Experience
A l a n S k y r m e P h o t o g r a p h y
Do you want a trip that will have you recounting your experiences over dinner for a long time?
Looking for a trip that will make you wonder why you never thought about doing it sooner?
Read on!!!
The Amazon is a BIG area that straddles Brazil (where most of it resides),
Venezuela, Peru and Colombia. Its a big place. Big. Very big. Some facts to
help with the perspective of bigness:
Venezuela, Peru and Colombia. Its a big place. Big. Very big. Some facts to
help with the perspective of bigness:
Indian reserve
Why visit the Amazon? Well, first of all you already appreciate that its a BIG tropical rainforest. Its very
green (apart from the bits that have been hacked or burnt away by those of an entrepreneurial persuasion).
Its full of life. This is the important bit. Full of life ... lots of which hasn't yet been identified!!!
The main reason for many of us to visit the jungle is to see nature in its raw state. To see the natural
food-chain at work. To be a part of that food-chain. There are lots of things waiting for you ... waiting to bite
you! You will be bitten. Hopefully you will be bitten by something small, something that will not leave you with
a permanent physical or psychological disability. I have a lot of experience in this regard and have fed
mosquitoes on 5 continents in my lifetime.
green (apart from the bits that have been hacked or burnt away by those of an entrepreneurial persuasion).
Its full of life. This is the important bit. Full of life ... lots of which hasn't yet been identified!!!
The main reason for many of us to visit the jungle is to see nature in its raw state. To see the natural
food-chain at work. To be a part of that food-chain. There are lots of things waiting for you ... waiting to bite
you! You will be bitten. Hopefully you will be bitten by something small, something that will not leave you with
a permanent physical or psychological disability. I have a lot of experience in this regard and have fed
mosquitoes on 5 continents in my lifetime.
Still interested? Good!!!
In the next few pages I will provide, hopefully, enough information to fuel your interest: info about what you
can expect to see, what you can expect to try (or succeed) to bite you, and other stuff. Some people are
happy to see the jungle from the comfort of an air-conditioned boat or hotel for a few hours. I can offer a
much more uncomfortable view for a much longer period!
In the next few pages I will provide, hopefully, enough information to fuel your interest: info about what you
can expect to see, what you can expect to try (or succeed) to bite you, and other stuff. Some people are
happy to see the jungle from the comfort of an air-conditioned boat or hotel for a few hours. I can offer a
much more uncomfortable view for a much longer period!
Amazon sunset
Piranha
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Real Amazon Experience
- Size of the Amazon basin: 2.5 million square miles (France has an area of 260,000 m²). Therefore BIG!
- Length of Amazon river: 6,500 miles. (River Thames is 215 miles long). Yes, BIG!!
- Manaus, the principal city in the region, and capital of Amazonas State in Brazil, is 1000 miles from the
sea. Outside the port of Manaus the rivers Solimoes (known in Peru as the Amazon) and Negro join to form
the Amazon proper. The water here is about 90 metres deep and really wide .... so wide, you will have
difficulty seeing the other side. And you are still 1,000 miles away from the Atlantic! Big!!!.
More facts later. In the meantime, think BIG!!!!
- Length of Amazon river: 6,500 miles. (River Thames is 215 miles long). Yes, BIG!!
- Manaus, the principal city in the region, and capital of Amazonas State in Brazil, is 1000 miles from the
sea. Outside the port of Manaus the rivers Solimoes (known in Peru as the Amazon) and Negro join to form
the Amazon proper. The water here is about 90 metres deep and really wide .... so wide, you will have
difficulty seeing the other side. And you are still 1,000 miles away from the Atlantic! Big!!!.
More facts later. In the meantime, think BIG!!!!
