what's up everyone, it's day two here in Alter do Chão and we're about to do a boat tour with a group here. and the boat tour is going to cost 200 per person and i think we have to pay a guide 150 but i think that's split between the group here so we're just on our way now to get on the boat maybe it's down here, there's loads of people getting on the boat. so i think there's only four other people with us so that's good. i want to go back to that island again like yesterday
yeah "ilha do amor". incredible island to visit so that took about 45 minutes right? yeah and it was like this all the way around, beaches all the way down the coast, empty beaches the guys just left us here stranded. so even though we're on the beach we haven't come here for the beach, we're gonna do a trail now. and the guy said it's two hours to get there and two hours back so
didn't know we were gonna be doing a four-hour trail today. but we did bring our boots so yeah we knew there would be a trail we just didn't realize that it would be so long. so this place that they've dropped us off is actually a little village, so check out this little church here "igreja da paz" and then you have the little houses here, yeah i think this is like a school area, interesting i didn't know we were coming to a village man these people live far away don't they carol? yeah this is way out of the way. i think there are many villages like this all the way around here, many different spots but they're kind of remote. yeah all around the amazon so that's the name of the community here "jamaraqua", "comunidade de jamaraqua" this right here is the little community school it's called João Paulo the second, tiny little school that's what the tribe used to make the fire right? yeah "breu branco" in one of our first videos here in amazon, "breu branco" we were wondering what it was so there you go so you can actually stay here as well so that would be pretty cool because you get to stay in a community, you have a beach and you have the jungle all in one. all right trail number 100 of the trip
i've lost count of how many trails that we've done wow look at this it's like another world already, right here and then this so right in the middle of the trail is the ant house. Tanajura house Tanajura, is that the name of the kind of ant? yeah whoa. You can see them with the leaves. oh with the leaves carrying the leaves, loads of them so this is the rubber tree that we've mentioned on many of the trails but here the actual container that would be used, this kind of thing so yeah i guess they cut it here and then this stick ismused for the the latex to drop down into this container. now it's mixed with the rain water so i mentioned in a previous video that Manaus, the main city here in the amazon was the richest city in south america at the time. i think in the 1800s because of that rubber so we've seen this on our other trails, this is the kind of palm that you use for like decorations or roofs. and from this leaf here we made a plate, so when we did some camping in the forest if you watched that video that was the one that we made the little plate bowl with to eat food the thunder sounds have begun and it has started the rain once again, i always love it though when it rains on the trails to cool down, and the bugs and the birds go way crazier when it's about to rain i think this is like the darkest jungle that we've been in yeah. yeah it's super closed look, even from the top not much daylight coming through
Carol so it's absolutely pouring it down but we don't even feel a drop. We don't feel anything because of the jungle, it's so thick here. the raindrops doesn't get to the ground. yeah but listen to the sound, it's absolutely pouring it down and nothing's getting through crazy. another monster tree here, look at the size of this all right never mind the rain is getting through now, but today we have our coats the rain's not coming through, no haha this is crazy the trail has turned into a stream so you probably can't hear me but this is the famous tree, famous big tree man it's been raining like this for like 40 minutes now. I'm tired you're tired of the rain. yes. yeah this is crazy, i think this is one of the heaviest rainstorms that i've ever been caught in. there's nowhere to go, we had four hours of
trail and in the first hour it already came. yeah. just to give you guys an idea of the size yeah these roots are crazy, look at that hole the trail must go on, there's no turning back anyway because we're halfway into the trail so just gotta continue so this would normally be one of the viewpoints but obviously because of the rain you can't see anything right now. ah finally shelter a little hut, so around here you can also do camping in the jungle so this would be the area of the campsite let's see how much water so we made it back to the community now back to where we started, and i think we're going to have lunch right now but the tour's still going to go on. so i think we're going to head to a river after we eat i think we need some warm food after that trail. and some rest. yeah food and rest so exhausted. yeah i'm destroyed
so all around everyone's drying their socks and they're clothes everybody got soaked. yeah so it turns out that we're not going to continue with this part of the tour at this place in the community, we were going to head to a river and do some canoeing but nobody really wants to go in the rain, and we're also pretty cold because all our clothes are wet and they're not drying. so even me and carol didn't want to do the canoeing as well. and the guide said closer to Alter do Chão where we're staying the weather should be better, it's not raining there so we're gonna head there and check out some beaches. hopefully it's not raining because if it is i guess the tour's over. yeah i'm so cold. yeah i'm cold as well. I just want a little bit of heat oh the water's nice and warm. that's all we got to do just stay in the water
and never get out. never get out of the water so we've arrived at the beach the guy said this one is called "pindobal" really big beach i don't know if me and carol have ever arrived at the beach in coats before, in raincoat. so if you watched the last video we were just over there in the distance on a beach called... was it "Muretá"?
"Ponta do Muretá" "Ponta do Muretá" yeah so that was just over there this one's quite different, that one was deserted you can obviously see there's more things here for tourists though for tourism. i guess you can pay for one of these usually, get a meal, drink right on the the ocean ocean? the ocean. yeah. why what did i say? it's not the ocean. oh yes it's not the ocean haha, i keep forgetting. yeah right on the river. so the spot here in the corner is really cool because we're on this cliff edge hadn't been to any beaches like this yet in the amazon region, huge cliffs. see all these rocks that have broken from the cliff. and at this side there's no wind, that's why we came here
i think it is a bit warmer now right? carol's shivering while i'm asking her that yeah i don't know i'm still cold. Your still cold. yeah that's the tough thing about this region because if you look at the weather forecast it always shows thunderstorms but obviously a lot of the days it's sunny. but it's because even though it's sunny in some parts there's always thunderstorms very close by, so over there it was raining like crazy and from what the guide said in the center it's not raining at all and it's very close. so you can never really know, you have to go out and hope for the best so we're back in Alter do Chão now, the center. so obviously the trip didn't go completely to plan
normally we'd still be out there. usually it would go to the beach that we went to yesterday "Muretá" and you would stay there for the sunset. what do we do now? go back, dry, take a warm shower it's gonna be great. yeah. and then later on we'll probably go out to have dinner and see the center. yeah we haven't shown that yet so we can probably show it so this is the main square at night, the other days that we came here it was more lively wasn't it? yeah because it was a sunday and today is a tuesday so it's not as lively as it gets on the weekends. yeah so usually all these places here are open selling food, there's like chairs and stuff here for people to eat and i think we ate at this restaurant the other night there but look how cool this one looks i don't think it was like that the other day, that's probably for christmas as well. and yeah
we're just gonna decide where we're going to eat today. we found this spot here on the main square there's less tables today because it's raining out there. and what's the name of this spot? "mae natureza". "mae natureza" oh yes it's here
and i think i'm gonna get this here "dadinhos de tapioca" 29.99 and i'm also going to get a "isca de filé mignon" 34 reais. so they're both entries but yeah i'm going to get two entries. do you know what you're going to get? Pizza, Margarita Pizza 34 Reais. oh the medium one. yeah. okay. so what's that drink that you've got there? caipirinha. caipirinha? yeah with Pineapple and mint
Pineapple, mint, and Cachaça Strong? No. No? Carol wanted a strong one. it's fine. lots of cachaça. if I drink a strong one i will be sleeping here on the table so this is the filet mignon, the beef. really tasty, they have some sort of like veggies on there i don't know what it is. and there's also some cheese that carol's been eating. it's good? It's so tasty yeah yeah the beef is really tasty, really juicy beef. and this is carol's monster cheesy pizza. so it turns out they didn't have the medium size, they only had the the "grande"the big one so yeah carol is gonna eat a lot today. Not a problem
and the last dish has arrived so this is the tapioca. like some rectangle square cassava block. and then they also brought this dip here which is pineapple and it has some spices in there as well. let's see how it tastes Whoa it's really spicy. yeah it has pepper on the sauce yeah but there's some other spices in there, that's not just pepper usually in brazil things aren't that spicy, but this is really spicy. it's good though so we were about to head back home and then we found out that apparently there's some sort of local party going on here so i think we're going to check that out. it's a kind of music from this region, what's it called carol? "Carimbó" yeah it's supposed to be very interesting and a beautiful dance as well. and that's from this state of Pará
yeah so i've never heard of it, never seen the dancing so yeah we're gonna check it out so that was a really cool show, didn't do much talking there because the music was constant but yeah really interesting to see, those people sure know how to dance. and the music was interesting as well, i like the trumpet saxophone thing i thought that sounded really cool. and i'm not sure if there's gonna be another video from here, we are gonna be here tomorrow still and we did want to do another tour but the forecast is looking terrible. so yeah i'm not sure if we want to pay for a tour again to get caught in some crazy rainstorm. and we just had an amazing time here it's just been a really
surreal experience if you watched all the previous videos near the manaus area. yeah just so many unique experiences here, done so many things that we've never done before. hopefully you've enjoyed all these videos from this amazon region and i'm pretty sure it will have surprised you, especially the fact that there's these beaches, yeah just lots of things that even i didn't know existed here, so if you did enjoy them just drop a like to support us as always subscribe like see more videos like this follow us on instagram and we'll see in the next one
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