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Date Posted: 07:31:57 06/30/02 Sun
Author: Newsgroups: rec.travel.marketplace
Subject: Subject: Amazon Family Adventure - Brazil

From: Jsananda (jsananda@aol.com)
Subject: Amazon Family Adventure - Brazil
Newsgroups: rec.travel.marketplace
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Date: 2002-06-19 10:36:39 PST

Family Explores the Amazonas Rain Forest
By RICK SAMMON

The Ariau Amazon Jungle Towers and Hotel
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MANAUS, Brazil (AP) - From our hotel, it was just a 20-minute ride by motorized
longboat to the thatched huts of the Tarino Indian village deep in the Amazonas
rain forest, but it seemed as if we had been transported back in time to
another millennium. Listen to the tribal chief, through an interpreter,
explaining some Tarino customs:

"We paint our faces and bodies so the spirits of the rain forest can recognize
us, and therefore protect us,'' he says. ``This is especially important when we
are hunting in the rain forest. But on Thursdays, we don't go into the rain
forest, because that is when the spirits are moving around. It is their day.

"We also paint our faces and bodies to honor and thank the rain forest spirits
during our nighttime celebrations. We dance, sing and play music. The spirits
are an important part of our lives. We have great respect for them."

My 10-year-old son, Marco; my wife, Susan; and I are learning about the customs
of the Tarino through our guide, naturalist and translator, Luiz Magalhaes.
Luiz is the chief guide at our base camp, the Ariau Amazon Jungle Towers and
Hotel, which is on the Rio Negro River about two hours by boat from the city of
Manaus in the state of Amazonas.

read the rest: http://www.ariauamazontowers.com/family-article.htm

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e-mail: Jill@AriauAmazonTowers.com

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