Dolphins, alligators and tribes in Brazil’s Amazon forest
Associated PressMANAUS, Brazil — The warning from our guide made clear that this “forest walk” would be anything but a leisurely stroll. “We will be careful where we step.” My wife and I had flown with our kids from Rio de Janeiro to Manaus, a major jumping-off point for Brazil’s Amazon rain forest. Over the course of a week, we swam with fresh water dolphins, gawked at alligators wrestled from river banks by scrappy guides, fished for piranhas and stood in awe at “the meeting” of the Negro and Solimoes Rivers, where a difference in density and temperature means that for miles black and yellow waters flow side by side. Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva, president between 2003 and 2010 and poll leader for next year’s race, once famously said: “I don’t want any gringo coming here asking us to let an Amazon dweller die of hunger under a tree.” Te Batista, a boat operator who we hired two days to take us to several areas of the Rio Negro, told me tourists always ask him about conservation.
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