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While landing, I have never experienced anything like it before. It was the most breathtaking and busiest view I had ever seen. The city below us was huge, bigger than I had ever imagined. I checked my watch again, we had already flown for fourteen minutes and we still had not reached the center of the city. The houses were so close together, one house literally built on top of another. There was no room in between the houses, no yard, no space. There was an ocean of terracotta roofs as far as I could see.
Monkey Stole My Sun-Screen, Amazon Stole My Heart
Vladia Jurcova2006-04-05 12:04:10
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While landing, I have never experienced anything like it before. It was the most breathtaking and busiest view I had ever seen. The city below us was huge, bigger than I had ever imagined. I checked my watch again, we had already flown for fourteen minutes and we still had not reached the center of the city. The houses were so close together, one house literally built on top of another. There was no room in between the houses, no yard, no space. There was an ocean of terracotta roofs as far as I could see.
I was amazed and exited. I was looking at the second biggest city in the entire world from the little window of my plane and I could not wait to land. I was arriving in Sao Paulo, the largest Brazilian city. “If Sao Paulo made me feel this way, how am I going to react to seeing the Amazon?” I thought.
Although reaching the Amazon Rainforest was an exhausting experience, it was worth all the flight-hours on the way. I was fortunate because TAM Brazilian Airlines helped me arrange for my accommodations and activities, the only thing I had to do was to give them a list of my dream destinations. They negotiated discounts and found guides in every part of Brazil and made my dream come true.
The mighty Amazon Rainforest was my first destination in Brazil. I had to spend hours on different flights before reaching Manaus. From there, I took a two hour boat ride on the Rio Negro and finally arrived at Ariau Amazon Towers Resort. This ecological resort was built on stilts in the waters of the Rio Negro, literally in the middle of nowhere. Located 35 miles from Manaus, it is easily accessible, but only by boat or helicopter. A fifteen minute helicopter ride from Manaus offers breathtaking views of the vast Amazon Rainforest and its wild life.
Upon arrival my fellow travelers and I were welcomed by a native Indian girl wearing only a bikini made out of bird’s feathers. Looking around I
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