The rocks South America completely covered with petroglyphs of the Sun and the Moon, huge crocodiles and crosses. Of particular interest are the rock paintings of the Rio Negru, depicting archaic tall people in long clothes. One hand is extended, the other grips a long staff or wand. Their hairstyle resembles a halo, but somewhat elongated. Similar figures are found in the Upper Orinoco region, in Timeri (Netherlands Guiana), as well as in the ancient ruins of the high mountain Tiahuanaco, in Colombia and Mexico.
Marajo Island, near the mouth of the Amazon, contains a prehistoric burial site, where burial urns were found depicting various racial types of people. Their city is found below the level of the Ecuadorian coast. Here were found magnificent obsidian mirrors, made in the form of lenses, and strange, amazingly shaped prisms, on the edges of which various symbols and signs are engraved.
Irrigation canals, giant statues carved out of a monolithic rock, were discovered off the coast of the Magdalena in the jungle of San Agustino. The houses of the village of San Agustino are still filled with antique statues installed in the square. Obviously, there is a connection between these ancient megalithic ruins with the Easter Islands, Ponare, Maldives, as well as with the Marquesas Islands.
The rock carvings depict two tall people who are dressed in long robes, one of them holding a rod in his hand. Their hairstyles look like an elongated halo. These hairstyles are found in the fresco paintings of the sky-high city of Tiahuana-ko. This mysterious city seems to have been specially lifted to the enormous height of the Andes by the titanic force of the elements in a rarefied atmosphere.
Ancient ornaments of this city depict dugongs and flying fish, and sea harbors have been discovered in its ruins. This city, thousands of years ago, lay at sea level. Lake Titicaca, near Tiau Anaco, has ancient algae chalk two yards thick. This clearly indicates that mountain range was once a seaside.
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Best beach on the island Marajo located between villages Joanes and Salvaterra…
In general, this huge, very big Island Brazil is inhabited on a small coastal area.
There are only a few villages connected by a fairly decent asphalt road.
During the season, there is a ferry to the island carrying cars from Belem.
Therefore, the future Robinsons and Crusoe: take a car for pumping in rental and punishment agencies at Belem airport!
Travel time from Belém: 3 hours.
Departure of the ferry at 6-30 from the pier that any taxi driver knows.
Walking distance from our hotel is about 15 minutes.
We were traveling, of course, not by a car ferry, but by an ordinary scow with a capacity of 600 people.
I specifically asked for the ship's documents from the staff when it seemed that we were about to turn over right in the middle of the Amazon River.
This is how it is: maximum 600.
The ticket costs 14 rubles 65 kopecks. Purchased locally.
Those who wish can go to the island with an overnight stay. The place is not bad. Picturesque.
There are many birds and mosquitoes. The LP's warning that there are many wild and highly venomous snakes in the forest was justified: they saw a couple of vipers and one gyurza on a tree ...
The restaurants on the shore are excellent.
Kashasa is in the general store.
The pasads have pools and even a kind of canopy over the swamps, where there are small anacondas, as well as water buffaloes.
The history of the origin of these buffaloes is very interesting here, since they are not the indigenous inhabitants of the island.
A herd of these laborers translated a French ship bound for neighboring Guiana.
And somewhere near the Amazon delta, he drowned.
All sailors died, and water buffaloes sailed to the island of Marajo, multiplied and now they are everywhere lying in the mud chewing gum ...
For tourists, locals arrange an activity: a ride on a buffalo through the mud, and then bathing it on public beach.
Surprisingly, I'll tell you: I haven't seen a single (!) Heap of shit on the beach.
Only on paved roads ...
But in order:
The ferry to Marajo Island looks like this:
Without a twinge of conscience, it is necessary to occupy the middle row, where two men or 4 women can fit stretched out to their full height.
Do not hesitate to come to the ship to throw someone's things into the aisle and fall into the vacant space.
The locality takes places for its friends and treats the treachery of tourists kindly.
I recommend the upper deck, closer to the bow.
On the lower deck in the bow, the TV is screaming and bruises at the cafe.
There are motors in the back - very noisy and hot.
When a storm comes, go down and lie down in an empty place: lying down is easier to transfer.
And it shakes, I suspect, there is always: from the ocean the wind drives a wave that hits the side of the ferry crossing the riverbed.
As already mentioned, this is 30 km.
There are life jackets overhead, life rafts on the roof of the ship.
If the ferry turns over, then it is advisable to get out through the side that is above the water, since otherwise you will have to dive through the flooded side.
There is no chance of getting out from the lower deck like that.
Ferries turn over annually.
They are caught at the exit to the ocean, turned over and towed to the port of Belem, to the dry dock for the next repair.
In the beginning, the path lies between the small islands Papagais and Cotijuba.
The islands are absolutely not beautiful, the coast is muddy.
Mangroves. Alligators and mosquitoes.
I have not seen the parrots. Maybe there is, but there are more of them on Marajo ...
Then the bed, rolling, nauseous, during which it is better to try to relax, putting a life jacket under your head and sleep.
Then the entrance to the bay Foz do rio camara that's all.
Have arrived.
At the pier, they meet bemo and grooves for transporting people wherever they say.
To the beach Salvaterra take 4 rubles.
On the road 30 minutes.
This day
The day was just right:
the storm that threw our ferry like a splinter 2 hours ago retreated into the Amazon jungle and the crackling peals of thunder could still be heard, but this sound was more tired than a threat.
The sun kindled its oven and roasted skin and soul.
Well, a fair amount of porridge with lime juice and cane sugar could not help but increase the contrast in the eyes.
On the way, we came across a small river going deep into the jungle.
Retreat: if you go from the pier towards the beach, then on the right there will be cultivated lands: plowing overgrown with weeds and rare oil palms.
And on the left there will be a real jungle, from which sometimes snakes crawl out onto the road and crazy monkeys run out.
And you, reader, have you ever had such a feeling: you are looking somewhere into the distance and this distance is calling you, beckoning and there is some kind of nagging feeling in the solar plexus area.
That same feeling came to me when we drove along the bridge over this rivulet.
- Amigo! Brake for a couple of minutes. We need to bamos por la baneiro (go to piss in Russian) ...
The minibus pulled over to the side of the road and turned on the emergency gang.
I got out of it and went deep into the forest.
In truth, it was all dictated by some kind of internal transmitter-receiver.
In a sober mind and sound memory, I would not have dared to do this.
I walk along the river bed.
The water in it is dark, like American coffee and motionless like a mirror of mercury.
The air around him vibrated slightly from inaudible sounds and from the haze of the equatorial heat of the day.
An Amazonian brown carpet bends gently underfoot.
Twigs, branches cling to the shirt and scribble the skin. Sweat trickles down the face and tickles the chin before falling. What for? Where?
I did not know that. I just walked and walked.
Oleg stayed by the car, because he did not know the motives that pushed me to get out and go into the thicket.
Pee could be right on the sidelines.
The riverbed swerved to the side and thickets parted in front of me.
It was a small clearing. The light fell on its bottom in sharp-pointed rays from the tops of the trees.
I stood in the middle and did not know what to do next.
I stood and looked at my feet. Then I lifted my head and looked higher. Nothing. Nothing to give me a sign of what to do next.
I lifted my head up, raised my arms and began to shift from one foot to the other, circling around me.
The sun's rays flew past me like yellow lightning.
The air was filled with elastic nature like a pillow with padding polyester ...
I kept looking up and waiting ...
And then the sound of silence was broken by the crackle of breaking twigs and springy branches.
After waiting a while, Oleg decided to check what caused my absence for so long.
What are you doing?
-Yes, I decided on a big ...
-Well, is everything okay?
-Yeah ...
Already leaving the clearing, I noticed an inscription on the trunk of the oldest tree, with a triple crown, apparently carved recently.
It read: "Semper movimento"
The asphalt ran into an urban-type settlement Salvaterra.
A small village with several churches, one school, one hospital and many shops selling kasha.
We asked the driver to bring us not to a certain hotel or passade (we did not have those ordered), but simply to nice beach... T
where there is not only sand and water, but also food. That is, restaurants.
The place where we were brought met these requirements: There was an Amazon river with water of the color of coffee with milk. There was a rivulet that flows into the Amazon River with coffee-colored water.
There was whitish, clean sand. There were restaurants on the shore.
While the chef was frying and steaming our simple order, I was constantly thinking about this inscription on the tree trunk.
What is she for and in general, does she refer to me or is it just a series of events not connected in any way ...
And only today I realized that everything is not accidental.
Today, after checking in for a flight to Santerem and boarding the plane, we had to get our luggage again and leave the airport with a desire to change the route and fly to El Salvador, where the ocean, beaches, islands ...: the plane's hydraulics failed, so everyone was urgently evacuated into the airport building, and the plane was taken away for repairs.
Deciding that this was a sign, we went to return tickets and decided to change our shoulder in the airpass for a flight to El Salvador earlier than the scheduled and paid time.
Then events took place that forced us to abandon throwing and pick up the previously handed ticket just at the moment when the operator raised his hands over the computer keys, intending to make a console.
But he didn't.
Change the date in the airpass.
Have not changed.
Explaining that the AirPass issued on the AirFrance form can only be changed by AirFrance
As a result, we fly to Santerem and everything should be as it should be.
The results of the trip to the island of Marajo.
The place is not bad. You can stay for a couple of days.
Relax.
Lie on the sand or sit in a stream of coffee-colored water.
The water contains a lot of tannins and amino acids, as it flows from the forest, washing the roots of trees, which may not even be known to botanists.
The fact is that this huge island in the Amazon delta is still poorly understood, since its central regions are swampy and simply not passable ...
By the way, after sitting in the water of this river, for a long time I could not get rid of the embarrassment caused by a spontaneously standing member, which protruded my panties so that I had to cover myself with a backpack.
The way back was uneventful so that in the evening of that day we were already sitting at a booked table at a height of 10 meters on the heads of the people around us.
This afternoon, my new license was prepared by a Belem specialist in document forgery.
This is in case we take a car in Santeren.
But maybe we'll just get to the place Alter do chao by taxi, and there we will take a motorized pie to travel to the Indians along a tributary of the Amazon - a river Rio tapajos.
In the future, I will try to take a car in El Salvador for these rights.
Marajo or Marazh(port. Ilha do Marajó) - the largest Island in, the area of which is about 48 thousand km² (about the size of Denmark and more than Switzerland). It is called the largest river island in the world, although this is not entirely true, because Marajo is partially washed by the waters. Atlantic Ocean... Administratively, the island belongs to the state of Para (port. Estado do Para).
The island, located almost at the equator, is formed by alluvial (from Lat. Alluvio - "sediment") deposits deposited by water flows over millions of years. Lowlands, especially in the eastern part of the island, Regiao dos Kampush(port. Região dos Campos), where meadows are flooded during the rainy season, is heavily waterlogged. In the center are palm savannahs; in the western part, Regiao da Ma-ta (port. Região da Ma-ta) - thickets of humid evergreen jungle.
In the north, the island is washed by the waters of the Amazon, in the south and east - by the waters of the Pará River and the Atlantic Ocean, and in the west - by the tributaries of the Pará and Amazon.
The Marajo Coast is a scenic combination of lush mangrove groves and magnificent sandy beaches surrounded by groups of royal Amazonian palms.
Cities, population
On Marajo, which is the main island of the archipelago of the same name, there are no more than a dozen cities scattered around. On the island there is a modern seaside resort town Soret (port. Soure), which is considered the unofficial capital of Marajó, because there are several hotels, a number of shops, restaurants, bars and cafes. On another 
the banks of the Para River, the left tributary of the Amazon, is Big City(port. Belem; capital of the state of Para), which is connected to the island by ferry, all flights of which terminate in the port town of Porto Camara (port. Porto Do Camara), located 27 km south of Soret.
The town of Juanes (port. Dzhuanes), located between Porto Camara and Sore, is famous for its excellent secluded beach (5 km from the road). Quite good beaches are located in the vicinity of the city of Salvaterra (port. Salvaterra), there are also a couple of hotels.
About 250 thousand people permanently live on the island.
The main part of the island is occupied by numerous cattle ranches and hacienda, where the largest buffaloes in the country are bred - "Buffalo" (port. Buffalo). The main occupation of the islanders is animal husbandry and fishing. Local shops sell fresh meat and leather, as well as all kinds of dairy products.
The overwhelming majority of the population lives in the eastern part of the island. Numerous herds of buffalo live here, you can even see animals roaming the city streets carefree.
History reference
In the "pre-Columbian" times (V-XIV centuries), the Marajo or Marajoara civilization flourished on the island (port. Marajó / Marajoara culture), which developed here for 3 thousand years. Traces of a developed culture were found on the island in the second half of the 20th century. The magnificent original pottery found by archaeologists testifies to the high level of development of the ancient communities that once lived here. Rich collections of objects made of clay are presented in the local museum, which is located in the town of Cajoeira do Arari (port of Cachoeira do Arari). Most of the items are decorated with images of female figures, which testifies that the society of Marajoara lived according to the laws of matriarchy.
The island houses a prehistoric burial site where urns were found with images of various racial types of people. There were also discovered magnificent obsidian mirrors in the form of lenses, and amazing prisms, on the edges of which various mysterious symbols and ancient signs were engraved.
Archaeological research on the island continues to this day.
sights
Once on the island, you should definitely visit one of the fazenda in the jungle, where buffaloes are bred.
Buffalo breeding hazenda
Uniquely attractive for tourists is the unique a natural phenomenon called (port. Pororoca). In the language of the Tupi Indians, this word has several meanings: "thundering water", "incredible noise" and even "killer". Twice a year, in February-March and September, the waters of the Atlantic Ocean roll up the river with the tide from the mouth of the Amazon, creating the longest wave in the world, which reaches up to 4 m in height. Pororoka can be heard half an hour earlier than seen. This fantastic spectacle looks especially exciting at night, with a full moon.
You should definitely visit picturesque beaches near Soret - Praia Pesqueira (port. Praia de Pesqueira) and Praia Araruna (port. Praia de Araruna), where waves often reach 3 meters in height.
The island has numerous rivers, along which tourists enjoy swimming in small boats or canoes, admiring funny colorful parrots, red ibises, stately storks, snow-white and blue herons along the way. The rivers abound with underwater inhabitants, including pirarucus, tambakis, dangerous piranhas and many other species of river fish. Monkeys, sloths, turtles, caimans live on land.
The best time to visit the island is between June and November, as it is drier. During the rainy season (December - April), only canoeing is allowed in the flooded areas.
Tourists are attracted to the island by traditional local celebrations, among which the colorful festivals of Quadrilas (Festival Kvadrilas port) and Boi Bumba (Festival Boi Bumba port), which take place at the end of June, stand out; September fair Agro Pekua-Ria(port. Feira bake-ria Agro); November 15-day celebration of "Sirio de Nazare" in Sori.
Curious facts
- Morajo Island is one of the few populated areas The land, where after the First World War the deadly Spanish flu virus did not penetrate. Scientists have not yet figured out the reasons for this "exclusion".
- The island is located almost at the equator, in the extension of the Amazon River estuary forming the Fresh Sea (port of Mar Doce).
- The Pororoca wave originates in only 100 rivers on the planet, and only during strong tidal currents.
- On Marajo, there are almost no dense tropical forests and mighty lianas. Its territory is mainly covered with stunted trees and shrubs. Only the coast is framed by islets of tall Amazonian palms.
- It is very curious to watch the buffalo, of which there are many, many thousands on Marajo! Locals it is said that buffaloes were brought here from India about 100 years ago, and they quickly acclimatized here. Some animals have gone wild, and now huge herds of wild buffalo roam the island.
- Every September, shepherds across the island conduct « fechasau » (port. Fechasau), this is the name of the hunt for wild buffaloes, which reproduce very quickly. Shepherds take the skin and meat of animals for themselves, providing families with food for several months. For domestic buffalo, there is always a threat of withdrawal by wild relatives.
- As the islanders themselves say, there are 2 troubles on Marajo, only, unlike Russia, these are not fools and roads, but floods that occur during the flood of the Amazon, and jacare, they are also crocodile caimans (lat.Caiman crocodylus). Jacare are usually small in size (the largest are about 2 m, occasionally reach 3), but very aggressive. There are so many animals that the islanders do not have time to fight them. Periodically, the inhabitants of the island organize a collective hunt, then hundreds of jacare are killed in one day! You even have to hire a special skinning team.
- Walking barefoot on the island, neither in cities nor in villages, is not worth it, because there are abundant dangerous insects, among which sand fleas, which tend to dig into the skin, are especially unpleasant.
- Brazilians say: “If you want to get short term big profits, organize a hacienda on Marajo and start raising livestock. Having a cattle-breeding hacienda, you will quickly receive a large income, even practically without bothering yourself at all with the management of the farm ”. Like this!
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see also
- Para - the state in which the island is located
- Brevis - a city on an island
- Sori - a city on an island
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