Amazonia

< previous 1 of 3 next >   Open this gallery and post comments

The Amazon Forest is a real wild paradise, and being in the Amazon is feeling like in the primordial times of the planet. The dense, stuffy jungle, still largely untouched, harbours in its midst very rich fauna and flora. This biodiversity is represented by countless species of mammals and more than 250 species of birds, besides alligators, turtles, snakes, frogs and fish. A side show is given by countless rivers, some of oceanic dimensions, that divide into narrow channels, rapids and form sand banks and fluvial beaches.

Maybe it is for all this that the Amazon forest always was and continues to be - a stage of legends and mysteries, able to contaminate from the riparian dwellers to the foreigners (a constant presence in the forest). According to the legend, one of the first explorers of the region, while navigating through the fluvial mazes, came upon a tribe of women warriors - the Amazons. Such a tribe has never been located, but gave the name to the forest and that legend continues to be told to date.