Yanomami (Upper Orinoco) - 1994

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Brazil Picture by Jacek Pałkiewicz
Travel story: Yanomami (Upper Orinoco) - 1994

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From the window of a tiny plane, the lands of the Yanomami Indians look like a world untouched by time - jungle-covered mountains and valleys cut by shiny ribbons of lonely rivers. As the plane swoops over the trees to land with a bump on a rough landing strip, men daubed in the red paint of welcome emerge clutching bows and arrows twice their own height and talking excitedly in the Yanomamis' ancient language. Naked women suckling babies stand cautiously at... More