amazondk

You are just about due west of me over where the sun sets. I was somewhat close a year ago. I took a business trip to Iquitos. We flew up to Tabatinga on the border with Peru and then took an express boat up to Iquitos. It was a 14 hour trip. Not too comfortable, but interesting. I have been to Ecuador a few times, the last time I think was in 1989. Which is already a while ago. I never made it to your area though. I am sure it is very nice where you live, Ecuador like all of South America is a beautiful country. Quito is a nice place, but a little too cold and the air is too thin for me. We have now shifted into the dry or called summer season locally and it is real hot, 36 to 40 C everyday. The nights are about the same always though, 22 to 24 C.

dk

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lorax

See, and that's why I'm in Puyo - it's eternal summertime, but without too many sancudos or other bloodsucking bugs. It's summer here, too - our temps are just about exactly the same as yours.

Jack Daw

I see you chose a weather sticker. Thanks for using both, Fahrenheit and Celsius.

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amazondk

In our area there is a big difference to black water rivers and white water rivers. The negro river being the largest black water river. Insects of course are present anywhere, but there are not many most of the time to be a bother. On the white water it is totally different. We do have enough mosquitos though to have a problem with malaria and dengue fever. Which I believe are also problems in parts of Ecuador. The worst thing that I have to put up with is traffic. Manaus now has around 2 million inhabitants and a lot of cars, buses, trucks, and motorcycles. And, people driver terribly.

A few shots around town.

One of the riverside container terminals.



The old part of downtown.



Houses in thee riverfront flooded with the high water season, record level set this year.




End of the day at the pool of the Tropical Business Hotel looking up the Negro River. Our place in the country is at the point of the far left hand side of the river near where the rain is falling.

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City Streets








The middle of nowhere.

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amazondk

Jack,

Since the world still is divided on this issue I figure it is the best way to see things. Of course I work and live in a metric world. But, I am still very linked to the USA, so I guess it is best.

dk

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lorax

I'm on a turbulent river myself - the Pastaza here is so full of rapids that it's only suitable for kayaking, not navegation, and the worst of everything but the malarial skeeters get blown off by the wind it generates - I'm at the point where the Amazon planes meet the Andes. Further downriver the Pastaza becomes a black river, where the Bobonaza joins it. About an hour and a half north of me, though, we have green rivers, and there's a terrible Dengue problem there.

Puyo itself is an unassuming little town of about 50,000 - the road that comes here was only recently paved; it used to be an excercise in portage with burros to get here. At least we're far enough off of the Pastaza that the city doesn't flood during the rainy season.

Here's the Rio Puyo, which is a clear-water river.


And here's the Rio Tena, a green one.


And the Rio Pastaza, which you were on in Iquitos, as it is closer to the Andes


Our forests look very similar, though!

amazondk

Lorax,

Thanks for the pictures of your part of Amazonia. It is a very big place. There are many similarities to the flora we have here to what you have. There are differences as well. Where Manaus is located there is a meeting of serveral forests, the one from Guiana and Venezuela coming south, from the Atlantic, and from the south and the Andes. In all of these there are common species. But, there are also endemic ones and a lot of variation. We do not have the altitude variation here, although the highest point in Brazil is in the state of Amazonas on the Venezuelan border it is a long way away.

It is hard for someone that has not been to Amazonia to comprehend how big the place is. Greater Amazonia is larger than the continental USA.

dk

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lorax

I know - it's even bigger than Canada (which is where I hailed from originally) - one day I'm going to get in a dugout canoe in the Rio Misahualli and not stop until I make the Atlantic Ocean - I think it will be an interesting trip.

CValentine

All the beauty...
Captured in pictures.
Amazing & Beautiful!!!
Thank you!!! ~Cheryl

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lorax

Just more incentive for you to come and visit, Cheryl!

conejov

Thank you Both Beth & Don For sharing pictures of your areas. In the near future I want to visit Peru and go in to the Jungles.

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lorax

Oof, come to Ecuador instead - Shining Path is active again in the Peruvian Amazon.

conejov

I actually want to Travel through most of South America. I dont mind trekking through jungles Ok Ok Then Ecuador is on my list too.

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amazondk

I at one time thought that might be an interesting trip. But, I guess I am sort of lazy now. Airplanes are a lot faster. And, you can stop over at certain places then go on to the next. There was a German guy a few years ago that swam down the Amazon from Peru to the Atlantic. And, then there was a Japanese guy that jet skied up the Amazon from the Atlantic to Peru. I guess I will just sit on the bank of the river an watch them go by. That way you spend a lot expend a lot less energy.

Also I have been out on the Amazon river in bad weather, and it is not fun. The waves can get up to 3 meters and sink boats. I have travelled a bit down the Amazon, called the Solimões before it get´s to Manaus in a 17 foot aluminum boat with a 15 HP outboard in a storm and it was not something I am anxious to repeat.

But, I could get you a good deal on one of these wooden canoes if you stopped by here.

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amazondk

My wife in a canoe on the stream she was raised in the middle of the jungle.



This stream used to be her front yard.

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amazondk

I hope it is ok to make this thread a get to know Manaus thread. I guess it would be an ok place to do this. As where you live and who you are tend to be pretty well connected. Manaus has it´s problems like all cities. But, it is a great place to live.

This is the main street downtown, Eduardo Ribeiro.



This C and A department store has one of the highest sales turnover in Brazil. People from all over the interior of the state do most of their shopping downtown.



And there is McDonalds. We now have a Pizza Hut as well. McDonalds took a long time to get to Manaus. The logistics of getting the food here was a problem for them.



Millenium Mall, a smaller upscale shopping center with a mixed use office tower, cinemas, and hotel.









The Manoa street fair near my house. I buy my fish here normally.

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Dalmatiansoap

Hi Don,
hello from Croatia.
Whan I was a kid we had one comic book about one "super hero" named Mister No who flight with Piper plane and lived in Manaus.
Mister No - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Your posts reminds me at my childrenhood right away
Thank You
Joke a side, welcome at .org and I m looking forward for your pix and storyes!
Regards

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amazondk

Ante,

Thanks for the link. I did not have that comic character when growing up in Montana, USA. I am sure I would have enjoyed the stories though. On my first trip to South America in 1971 - 72 I went down to the jungles of Eastern Bolivia to see the forest. I was travelling alone and on a small budget. I ended up staying in a small hotel in a place on the Beni River that was owned by a German guy that fit the description as an ex Nazi that got away from the world. He treated me real nice and it was a good stay. He was sort of the kind of guy you could put in to such a story. I have felt like I have been in some sort of comic book from time to time in different adventures in Latin America.


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CValentine

The kids & I have enjoyed the adventures in South America via pictures!!!

A stream in the front yard, growing up in the jungle...storybook stuff!!! AWESOME!!

Che' is READY!!! Oh the adventures in our mind when we are 10yo!
Other than our Spanish is less than adaquate to get by...we'd be there in a heart beat.

France I can do...My Mother is 100% French, I can understand/slow speak...which would drive any Frenchman crazy.
I know some Italian...after that...I'm busted.

Beautiful Pictures!!!! Thank you for sharing!! ~Cheryl & the Kids

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damaclese

wow thanks for all the pictures both of you! looking at them made me feel strange. the contrast between your super wet lush green bug infested jungle and my super arid hot and some would say baron but its not. its defiantly bug infested. Most can can hurt you in the desert. made me long for my home In Missouri. many people do not know that in the south its allot like the amazon in places. theres many rivers and lush tangled Forest were in the summer it rains almost every day. no dengue or malaria fever! thanks again for sharing its wonderful and fill free to post even more pictures.
Thanks
Paulo

PS I'm definitely coming to see you some day Elizabeth if you have the time we could go see Machupichu ( so this ones not in my spell checker if you could spell it out i could add it)together

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