Last night we had our first long rain, which was beautiful covering the lake near Tefe. It cheered me up for some reason, as I love thunderstorms and rain.
Other than that, we are enjoying our favorite restaurant, Stylo, which is located by the hotel; one of two restaurants that have been recommended.
The night before, we actually had (Brazilian) pizza; Brazilians love hearts of palms on their pizza, which sort of taste like artichokes. It was quite cheesy (not good for us lactose intolerants), but still was a pleasant change from fried chicken, fried manoc, fried beef. The treat of the day, however, was the sundae bar that they had - complete with magic shell and coconut ice cream. Yum.
This morning I was super excited, as fried manoc was served for breakfast this morning - they look sort of like french fries, but taste like a grainy potato. Or like a potato smashed with cauliflower. I LOVE it. We also sprinkle manoc on our rice and beans, but this is more of a "salt" type consistency.
Tomorrow morning we leave for the reserve, in which we will be about two hours outside of Tefe. We plan to stay at one of the Institute's reserve stations, with no idea of the "amenities." We also plan on visiting the eco-lodge as well, to get an idea of how it is run by the local population. I'm sure on Monday, there will be lots of updates and pictures.
Here's the website to the Institute (they have not updated the English site, however):
http://www.mamiraua.org.br/
As well as a link to the Eco-Lodge (it's actually a floating house) -
http://www.uakarilodge.com.br/ing_index.htm
Ciao for now -
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i will make sure to make you a special all manoc meal when you get back to California!
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