The title of this blog is the past week in a nutshell. We left Porto Seguro with thirty-five kilogram packs and our pace slowed instantly. This increased weight is because no-one will walk with us for this leg. The weight is a lot if you consider Cho only weighs sixty-six kilograms and so he’s packing [...]

What we’d planned as ten days was completed in eight – a good start to our crossing. We are now in Porto Seguro. Wilson and Valdir (misspelled in previous blog) have gone home. It would be great to say that they’d had a great time but they left shattered and somewhat sad. They had not [...]

After leaving the main channel of the Solimoes on Friday we are now six days into the long crossing to Tefé. Our guides are Wilson and Walde, both Ticuna men from Bon Pastur, and we have settled into a pace and have no major problems. Cho and I streamline our kit all the time (to [...]

Tomorrow we meet up with the two Ticuna guides who have said they will walk with us to Tefé, some 350 kilometers away. We have a gift of a motorcycle battery for the chief (handy for running electric lights at night) and are hoping that our time away from the village (renewing our Brazilian visas) [...]