Imagine travelling into a universe composed of endless, absolutely flat, sweet water, an sometimes pyrotechnic sky, with a looming border of untouched rainforest in the distance.That's how it's like to travel on the Rio Negro during high water-season. Vast extensions of rainforest are submerged, while the watermasses drain through the Amazon bassin.
Animals are rare. Horizont is abundant. Forest is rare. You can't get too close to it, since you need to avoid running into the tree canopy, possibly submitting your boat to damage.
There is no anchoring. To stop at night you carefully approach an emerging tree top, grab a branch, tie up and rest. Pick your branch carefully. You don't want to get snakes and ants as late night visitors, and have them ruining your night peace.
Remember, that you need to provide some slack when tying up, due to the possibility of a sudden surge of "tide", caused by heavy rainfalls. You don't want boat boat to rip off that branch and damage the rainforest, do you?!
Of course you need an experienced pilot and crew, who knows the riverarms and sandbanks well. There is no navigation aid, charts, signalisation, or lights whatsoever - of course. Just endless. Quite a navigation challenge. Sanbanks change constantly. The landscape looks completely different during low water season.
The region is a paradise for sportfishing during low water. Barcellos is the regional capital.
The two weeks on the boats with family and friends were a unique travel experience.
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