THE AMAZON IS INCREDIBLE! Visiting An Indigenous Community & Pink Dolphins
good morning everyone so it's 7:00 a.m and we've just woken up and today is gonna be our first day of exploring the amazon rainforest. so the amazon rainforest isn't exactly a place where you can just turn up by yourself and start doing trails and go into communities stuff like that you do need a tour for everything you're going to do and when we decided we were going to come here we made a post on instagram asking if anybody knew of any good tour companies and pretty much everyone kept staying the same company which is a company called iguana turismo, iguana tourism so we contacted them and we're going to be doing all the tours here in the amazon region with them. so i think we're going to be doing three different tours overall over the next seven to eight days and today just to get into it we're going to be doing a day tour here from manaus and that tour is going to cost 260 reais per person and it is a full day tour and that includes meals, not exactly sure what's included in the tour but i know that there's going to be boat tours & i think we get to visit a community that's not so far from here so it's going to be really interesting and a good introduction to the amazon so we've come to the port of manaus where we came in the last video but today we're here to do the boat trip so right now we're gonna get on a boat, one of these boats around here. so this is gonna be our little boat here for our tour. same kind of boat as this i think isn't it? yeah
so what's the animal called that we're going to see now? It's a Boto. Boto? yeah it's like a fresh water river dolphin and it's very famous here. in rio we call it boto cor de rosa because it's has a pink color but i think here the locals they call it a red dolphin. red dolphin. boto vermelho
yeah so we're actually on like a floaty platform here we're not on land so yeah i think we'll be able to see them down here, yeah you can see them down there yeah so after this group goes in, whoa look at that! you can see the stomach looks pink right? yeah. and there are a few rules so you can't use any rings anything metallic, you also have to remove all your sunscreen or any lotion that you've got one the eyes are tiny. yeah tiny, i don't think they see like the ocean dolphins, they see less because they have a smaller eye that's what the guys said. more blind . yeah more blind but they they have a strong sensor. smell. yeah stronger than the the ocean dolphins sure is nice and peaceful around here. yeah except for the thunder, the thunder is very strong. yeah i hope it doesn't rain a lot, you can never really tell around here
it looked like it was going to rain in yesterday's video and it never did listen to that, whoa! a tropical storm is coming so this next stop is an indigenous community, what was the name of the community carol? Cipia. Cipia so the guide is explaining a lot of stuff but since we're sat at the back it's kind of hard to film what he's explaining but he was just talking about all the different indigenous communities that live along here in the amazon and they all have different dialects right, different languages. i think the most prominent language spoken here on the rio negro is called tukano so i think we're gonna have a presentation right? yeah so i haven't even seen my design yet, now i'm seeing it in the camera. wow mine's cool the girl that painted you looked about i don't know like five or six. yeah a little kid do you want to go and check out the community now? yeah yeah. outside. yeah let's go.
So that was the area that we did the presentation, got a little duck here. hello mr duck check this out so in brazil even the indigenous people have a football ground, and i guess this is where they they live their homes these little huts. yeah so there's quite a few around this area see some more back there. we even joined in dancing. yeah yeah. but we couldn't film it
because we were dancing. no we were dancing with them and apparently this was not a ritual it's just like presentations because the real rituals are usually like for a day. over a day. over a day and you need to be invited so it's not like everyone can go and do it so it was just a presentation the guy was talking about the culture and the history, many many interesting things and it was very nice. so i'm just wandering around now they'll let you wander around for like 30 minutes that's when we'll get the boat to have lunch somewhere. some more areas here it looks like places to have lunch i guess this is another one of the little houses that looks like some sort of fruit or plant i don't know what that is check this we have the amazon tiger dog, the amazon tiger dog man you look cool, half dog half tiger so they have loads of different souvenirs here inside, so i got this one here for 10 reaiis and you got this one here. yeah. these are the seeds right? add to my collection. yeah it is raining super hard now, probably been like this for around 20 minutes
and we can't leave in this rain because we have to go an hour i think to the next spot, and yeah the guide doesn't know when it's gonna pass obviously, so i guess we're stuck in the indigenous community here, we're gonna stay the night all right the rain's not stopping so we're going for it luckily we brought a umbrella, carol brought a coat so we've now arrived at our lunch stop, so this is rio solimoes which is the upper amazon river, it's more of a brown color here no longer the the black river. and this is a spot hungry? oh yeah. yeah we were supposed to eat like an hour ago right? yeah because of the rain. yeah because of the rain. food looks good though, a big buffet so the food is great here just like everywhere in brazil, so i got some rice, beans, broccolis,got some fried plantains which we love and chicken. you got almost the same just with fish right? yeah.
some veggies, oh yeah that's the big amazon fish, the biggest right? yes it is. not a bad spot to eat right on the amazon river, and now we're gonna do a trail that's in the same lunch spot here so there's a trail up here. do you remember the name of this place? this park? Januari or something. Januari? yeah something like that something like that yeah be aware of the monkeys oh yeah monkey check it out they are going to steal stuff. yeah look at all the monkey! oh wow! yeah they're going all the way up, you're gonna see soon check it out loads of little monkeys everywhere over here as well where is he running? I thought he was going to try and get the water bottle funny little sounds, this guy as well yeah so here at the top of the monkey stairs get a way better view of the upper amazon river and this trail looks really cool, so we're basically on like a big bridge, big walking deck amongst the trees wonder what insect that is? yeah carol so i think the next tours that we're going to be doing is going to be more like this all the time right? yes because we're going to a more remote place and we're going to stay there for a few nights and even sleep in the jungle, in the middle of the jungle. yeah it's going to be wild, so this is like a little spoiler of what's to come in the next videos so this trail leads us to this sort of observation deck here overlooking this... i think it's a lake, is it a lake or a river? i don't know. i don't know, can't
see where the water goes over there. and you got these huge lily pads all over the place the famous victoria regia, victoria regia a very famous plant in brazil and i think in english it's amazon.. victoria amazon or something like that. oh yeah. amazonica or something like that so in case you're wondering you can get guided tours in english, probably even other languages with iguana tours. we just did the portuguese one with with brazilians here since we speak portuguese obviously but we did see other groups of foreigners so that is an option and the guy tells you loads of information, yeah this video obviously doesn't contain everything that he's telling us. so he did mention that there's other tribes in amazon that have never
encountered modern day humans even, they found their camps but when they arrived there there's nobody there so yeah they don't want any contact with us. and besides that he's just telling you information about the river so the amazon is the biggest river in the world by extension size and volume, the output. and rio negro the other one that we've been seeing is the largest black water river in the world as well. and the amount of water going out the amazon is so much that the ocean area is not salty at all apparently, it's just the water of the amazon. so you have to go like miles and miles until it gets salty, didn't know that at all looks like they stole some nice fruit from the restaurant. they all got fruit, watermelon he looks angry. well he should be happy
another one that got a watermelon, hey mr watermelon that's the fish you keep eating right? yeah wow it's huge. pirarucu yeah absolutely gigantic, look at the size of that thing! so carol's going first go on carol! man carol is in a battle, a true battle ok now it's gone. it's gone? yeah. wow everybody else's was like three seconds, yours was like five minutes and there's no. no more fish. no hooks. yeah there's no hooks so the
the fish just need to come and grab the fish, now it's chris' turn. yeah my turn. good luck god damn! because you don't see it in the water at all, so it's just boom! Surprise like an anaconda. yeah, all right second one i don't have the energy anymore. yeah that was a real workout, those things are so powerful my arms are all sore now. carol did a good job, you defeated yours it was like five minutes, couldn't get
your fish at all. yeah because i was afraid of getting into the water. oh falling? yeah i don't know. yeah the moment it bites it really tugs doesn't it quickly. yeah and it's so strong, but i'm stronger, stronger than pirarucu stronger than pirarucu. yeah this part here there's actually some little.. i guess like river homes right? yeah yeah ribeirinhos, people who live in the river like this. they're called ribeirinhos? yes
yeah so loads of these houses here, theres even a dog a dog just chilling I don't think it's joined to the the land is it? no it's not. just floating so we're buying some more souvenirs now, some proper souvenirs. so i've got this... what is it like a vase or something? yeah. yeah 40 reais so really good price, i'm gonna buy to put it on our family's house because we don't have a house. yeah yeah for our family and carol got more bracelets, how much are those? five reais. five reais each? yeah. this one is a cordao (necklace) and both of them are made from acai seeds, they're painted but they are acai seeds yeah so this one's a necklace right? they got loads of cool designs though look at all that some plates as well, wall plates another bracelet? man i want to buy it all check out this little amazon canoe here, i guess that's how they get around just the one paddle must be peaceful living out here though? yeah just the sounds of the birds and the monkeys. yeah. yeah this sounds awesome hearing this every day
so we're at the spot where the two rivers combine now so you can see this is the darker river the So you can see that this is the darker river, the rio negro and then just right here the line is where solimoes starts i think the rest of the amazon after is the brown color isn't it? yeah because they happen to mix but not here because at this moment the other river is going way faster and they have different like substances so it takes a while for them to mix that's why here you can see the difference but yeah in the in the distance they will mix. yeah. yeah look at it now so now you can really see it right on the line now so we're checking the difference in the temperature so this is the rio negro, it's kind of warm and now we're going into the light brown one colder so we're back at our airbnb again and today was just really awesome, really nice introduction to the amazon this day tour. i think this day tour is more for people that are here just for a day, just passing by quickly so yeah even if you're just in the city of manaus you don't really have to go far to get like the rainforest experience, meet the different communities stuff like that so yeah i think it's good for people that are just here for one day but they do have many other tours, like i said the site will show so if you're here for two days they have tours, if you're here for like three, four, five they have all sorts of different things yeah with different like time frames. so there's loads of different tours for everyone
and like we said over the next few days we're actually going to be staying in the rainforest so we're really looking forward to that. the people that did it already on the boat today said that it's even way better than everything we saw today and today was already awesome so i can't wait for that. so if you like this video just drop a like to support us subscribe if you like to see more videos like this follow us on instagram and we'll see in the next one
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