MOST Magazine Fashion MAY-JUNE'15 ISSUE NO.9 | Page 201

The Amazon was one of the places I
really wanted to visit while in Brazil. All of my
Brazilian friends called me crazy to leave
Rio and go to a place where mosquitos are
the size pigeons, as they said. But the real
question is, how can you go to Brazil and
NOT visit such an iconic part of the country?
The journey starts at Manaus, where
you have to take a car, a small boat, and
countless hours of Pirogue in order to get
to the camp with your guide. The Amazon
is a hard environment: it’s hot, humid, and
indeed full of mosquitos. But you forget all
of this because you’re in the heart of nature.
It is amazing the sheer number of animals
and insects you can see. However, I quickly
discovered it’s equally amazing how hard it
is to take pictures of them.
I had the opportunity to see the local way
of living; kids going from one point to another, using their Pirogues (canoes) in a way you’d spend years
learning. From learning the art of living to the old man still making natural rubber by extracting it from the
trees, there was so much goodness in being there. By chance, I was able to sleep inside the rainforest,
surrounded by sounds I could not identify, but feeling sensationally good to exist in that moment.

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