Amazon River

I need to witness the beautiful Amazon River dolphin, Inia geoffrensis.

What a crazy place, Watch out, don’t let the huge spiders, snakes, peronias, crocks, or mosquitos get you. So amazing. There is so much diverse life here – and most of it can eat you.

I went on a cruise down the Amazon with SilverSea Cruises. My mother, my sister, and myself. It was the experience of a lifetime and I would give anything to go again.

wud luv to go there at least once to experience the real wild ..
the river…. the forest…. different kinds of animals as well as meeting some native people there

Want to see the Amazon and see where all the fish come from that I have in my aquarium. Maybe catch some fish on my own.

It’s funny when you see the water from the tributaries of the Amazon converging into the Amazon itself: the water colors are different. Also, in one of the Amazonian tributaries lay the floating slum of Belen. That was something else to behold. It was the most mindboggling open market I had seen in my whole life…

Just to add to what’s been said, I heard that Jaques Cousteau, the french adventurer and scuba diver went to the bottom of the meeting of the waters and the water was still divided all the way to the bottom (a very long way down).

On the reason they are divided, I think I heard that it is pressure, and not just temperature, that makes them not mix, although I guess these two are related (inversely) anyway.

I remember seeing those pink/brown river dolphins there, it was very odd seeing dolphins in a river.

The amazon river was so amazing to me coming from Australia where we call a small trickle a river, or even something that only has water in it once every 8 years or so. It was so big that in parts you can’t see the other side (although not where I went to).

The comment on the southern cross rung a bell for me. I remember it struck me as odd seeing the southern cross in south america because I had always thought of it as a uniquely Australian thing (when of course it is a southern hemisphere thing) and it reminded me of home when I was almost as far away as you can get.

A thousand miles inland, this river is eight miles wide. Get in and you can feel it pull you along toward the coast. You get on a boat at the dock in Manaus; the river here is the Rio Negro—the clear-tea Black River. Enter the river, go under water, turn your face to the sun, and look up and it is like seeing the sun through dark tea, which is pretty much what the river is. All the vegetation of the trees along the river falls into the stream and steeps in the near-equatorial waters. Though dark, the water is very clear and unclouded.

But go 20 miles downstream and the Rio Negro spills into the clouded waters of the Amazon. Because the waters of the black river are different from the temperature of the Amazon, the two waters do not mix for a long time. There is a line - as clearly as if drawn by a hand - that marks where the waters of the Rio Negro end and those of the Amazon begin and this line continues downstream in the Amazon for many miles until they finally dissolve into each other.

And wild. You can travel for hours on the river without seeing any signs of civilization whatsoever. Not a house or a boat or even a plane overhead. There isn’t even a sign of near-civilization. This river is one of the darkest places I have ever been in my life with a sky that contains more stars than it seems possible for a sky to hold. But strange stars, unfamiliar to my north-hemisphere eyes. The Southern Cross is the only one I come to recognize and I lie on the boat canopy at night and look for it. Somehow, my night is unfulfilled and unsatisfying until I have seen it.

Most beautiful place I’ve ever been. Worked on a medical boat in different villages for three months. Great experience!