mtgoat666
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Trekking in Brazilian rain forest
Great ‘travel’ story!
His Plane Crashed in the Amazon. Then Came the Hard Part.
A Brazilian pilot working for wildcat miners escaped death when his plane went down in a remote area. He walked through the jungle for 36 days before
being rescued.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/28/world/americas/brazil-ama...
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
Prefered gender pronoun: the royal we
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JZ
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He lost 55 pounds in 36 days. Wow.
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AKgringo
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Non-Baja Vacation Trip Reports
Well it is definitely not Baja, and an account of his survival could be considered a trip report, but vacation?
I don't think I will be following in his footsteps!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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BajaBlanca
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What a story! It was his maiden voyage and what a shame that they continue ruining the rain forest.
I once went, by bus, from Rio to the city of Manaus, which is at the mouth of the Amazon River.
5 days of nothing more than trees trees trees.
In the middle of absolutely nowhere, there was a Coca Cola sign at a tiny soda snack kiosk.
At one point, a bridge across a tributary has been washed away. We had to get on a raft and cross the river. Then they crossed all our luggage.
Then we got on the bus that had been headed south, the passengers from that bus got on our bus and it turned around to go back to Rio de Janeiro.
Ingenious.
I took a canoe ride to a school way in the deep of the jungle - one room for all the grades and one teacher to teach all the grades!
It seemingly rained out of the blue sky every afternoon. I mean a soaking downpour that lasted 15 minutes and then blue sky returned with steam
rising from the roads. Hotter than heck. Mosquitoes like car engines zooming at night.
Amazing that this pilot made it out alive! I do not envy his trekking.
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caj13
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Hey Blanca,
One of my favorite trips in brazil is to get to Manaus (but we fly in). from there we load up a chartered boat, My Brazilian friends do all the
arranging - so the boat owners have no idea americanos are involved, that typically cuts the price in half!
we have about 10 of us on board, air conditioned 2 person staterooms. we chug up the Rio Negro (tannic acid in water means no mosquitoes) for a
week or 10 days, stopping in tiny villages, or just at the homesteads of the river people. do alot of fishing and exploring. really fun when the
pink dolphins come around to say hi! Crew on the boat cooks real Brazilian foods, resupplying at the small villages. great trip! as soon as
brazil finds a way out of the covid mess they are in, we will be replicating that trip, a bunch of us from the graduate school days - 30 years ago!
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BajaBlanca
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Now that is amazing. Way to go using Brazilians to set the trip up.
I remember Lauriboats once said she took a trip to the canopy of the rain forest for a week or 10 days. Two days were enough she said LOL
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