Maica by mocorongas.nl

www.mocorongas.nl is a site run by dutch friends connected to social programmes in Santarem. It is a good place to know how their language is complicated and what tehy feel about our hometown. It is also accesible via http://www.veerle.org

Chapada das Mangabeiras

Concentrates quite a number of endemic and threatened species. I worked on the protection of such amazing ecossytem(Cerrado) when soybeans megaprojects were only sneaking into it. Maned wolves, Hyacinth Macaws, Blue and Yellow macaws, Giant Armadillo, Red and green macaws, Sun Parakeet, Giant Anteater are some of the species

I had seeen Titi monkeys using a stick as tool, here the species are Capuchins.
They use rocks to crack palm nuts. It is amazing and fun to watch them.

Hyacinth Macaws were the major target by bird trapper.
Some of them joined us in project

Red and Green macaws nest in cliffs cavities as oppose to

tree holes like in the Amazon

Pedro Ivo...

...having an bird-eye-view from the wonderful city of Rio de Janeiro. Fly bitch fly!!

PS: E a melancia, será que passa de lado??

Parintins Boi Bumba-Cigarretes&alcohol

Pix taken by Emano Loureiro, a good friend and film director from Santarem.

Tanger bird eye view

Morocco

I was always eager to know my grand-daddy's place...i am eager to breath the same air, walk on the same streets, see the same sea, sea the same signs, hear the same language, pray same prays...

Windsurf in Mirleft, Morroco

Next Destination: Morocco

pra

I am working my way to my grand-daddy's country. Wish me luck.

books referred in the article below

school is off

Vacation time!!!

It is time to use a another BIC.

Alter do Chao

I can't wait to see Alter do Chao like Danni clicked last year.

For the next two months most of the beach will be under the water.

Prague...

...has been described as one of the nicest cities in Europe by my friends.
I doubt someone will ever disagree and I can hardly wait to visit it.

Jungle Marathon 2008

Everyone is quite excited about Jungle Marathon 2008.

I wonder who will be doing it again??

Whoever comes will have loads of fun and an amazing rainforest experience.

The pix shows Beck, from England, winner of previous jungle marathons.

Mohammed Abidally is

...a photographer from Sri lanka,(formerly Ceylon).

He may be visiting Santarem soon.

Let us hope it turns out good.

While I haven't got his pix enjoy one of my favourites.

Reginaldo Rohden....

Reginaldo Rohden is an ex-student of my family's English school.

He is a big traveller and here are some pix of his latest adventureto Patagonia.

Check it out and try the same,if you dare. Currently he lives in Curitiba.

Tourists bathing at the famous Geysers del Tatio,

located in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile

at 4200 meters above mean sea level.

I am travelling for three days 2 see...

...some wildlife and visit Mte Alegre for the caves

The Inca Empire

I am always fascinated for the Andean cultures, more precisely Peru. I also love the southwestern Peruvian Rainforest where I had the chance to work with Dr. Charles Munn.

A few friends of mine had the privilege of experincing Macchu Picchu, amongst these include Gina, who took Fabricio's pix U see in the ruins of Macchu Picchu, the lost city of the Incas, found only in 1911!!!!

Quichua is the native language which widely spoken also in Cuzco, where I lived for a while and got legless various times at Cross Keys a pub ran by Barrry Walker, my English china and well known ornithologist. But my greatest experience was being with Daniel Blanco at Selva Sur, a conservation organisation based in Cuzco.

Selva Sur has projects protecting tracts of Cloud Forest where one can see Spectacled Bear, Andean Cock of the Rock and Military Macaws. Selva Sur also protects lower rainforests throught ecotourism and runs The Manu Wildlife Center amongst other lodges in South America, including Brazil.

Well done Daniel Blaco and team!!!!

Congrats Fabricio and Gina for the journey!!!

Cave paints

done by my ancestors some six thousand years ago. Actually there are evidences they were there since twelve thousand years ago. The well known caves of Mte Alegre were studied by the Ann Roosevelt. One can see more by accessing her website.com

Cruiseships

will be arriving soon, get to see myself and my guide mates,

Steve Alexander missed this moment.

We are all excited about the coming season.

Boats...

...are still used as the main means of trasnportation in the Amazon by locals and tourists. I shall be posting boat schedules soon and make this more useful.