Chapter 548: Black and White

"We're mainly here to fish, can you help us with fishing?" Hong Tao is also interested in the tourism projects he mentioned, but he has not forgotten the ultimate purpose of his visit.

"My father, my grandfather and I all grew up by the river, and I know all the fish here, and I can also provide you with fishing gear without buying or renting it." Hearing Hong Tao's question, Anaya grinned, perhaps in his opinion, it was much more difficult to provide tourists with other tours than to provide fishing assistance.

"How do you charge?" Hong Tao is very satisfied with what he said earlier, and now it depends on whether the price can be negotiated or not.

"R$150 per person per day!" Anaya didn't hesitate and said a number directly.

"Is food included?" Hong Tao felt that it was a bit too cheap, so he asked again.

"The food is very average, because my hostel is too far away from the city to buy too much at one time, so I can only rely on local food." When it comes to food, Anaya is a little less confident.

"That's you! We make a deal! Hong Tao didn't wait for his words to land, and quickly reached out and grabbed his hands and shook them together, for fear that he would change his mind, because when he went to the Indian tribe in Canada, he heard that the Indians are the most trustworthy, as long as you promise you something, even if you feel that you have lost money later, you have to complete it according to the agreement, and the way of the agreement is very simple, that is, to shake hands. Although this is Brazil, Hong Tao thinks that the Indians should be similar, where to find such a cheap travel agency! Hurry up and settle down!

"Then you guys prepare your luggage, and we'll leave at noon!" Anaya obviously knew Hong Tao's way of shaking hands with the Indians, and was so happy that she didn't even talk about paying a part of the deposit, and began to talk about sailing.

"We're all carrying luggage, it's $500, we don't have that much reais on us, can we pay you dollars?" Hong Tao didn't plan to embarrass this honest middle-aged man. Wherever he stays, he has to pay first, and he doesn't want to bully honest people.

"No problem, if you pay dollars, I can get a little more discount." Anaya was not worried about receiving the dollars, but was even happier.

"We don't need a discount, as long as we can catch more fish, and there's $100 here, can you help us buy some beer and mineral water and bring it with us?" Hong Tao is not very worried about the water in Anaya, and the tap water in Brazil is the same as in China. You can't drink it directly, it's not a big deal to bump it when you go out, and once you eat it badly, it's troublesome.

"I have beer, I'll buy more mineral water." Anaya is still honest, it seems that his 150 reais is not only about food and shelter, but also about beer.

"Buy some, we can all drink!" Hong Tao didn't want to save this money, although bargaining was a must. But don't force the other party too hard, if he can't make money, it is impossible to provide you with good services, this is common in the whole world.

"That's done. I'll be back in half an hour, and we'll meet here. Anaya took Hong Tao's money and trotted to the outside of the dock, probably looking for a familiar merchant to buy goods.

"Fernando. Thank you so much for taking care of us these days, it's a little bit of our heart. "Anaya is gone, Fernando is not gone. Hong Tao took out another 200 US dollars as a tip for him, this money was not unjustly spent, this old Brazilian man did help a lot, and he never hacked Hong Tao's money, which is very rare.

"God will bless you, this is my home phone, if you are in trouble, be sure to call me." Fernando, an old man who was not greedy, laughed happily at the sight of the green dollar, and he did not pretend to excuse himself, but added a local phone number to his business card.

After sending off the happy Fernando, Hong Tao and the three of them were not idle, they walked around the street outside the dock, found a small supermarket, and went in to buy as much as they could, toilet paper, toothpaste, band-aids, chewing gum, and canned beef.

At this time, Anaya had already returned, and was sorting out his things in his small boat, and when he saw Hong Tao and the three of them, he hurriedly ran ashore, took his backpacks, put them on the bow of the boat one by one, and then handed each of them a can of beer, and started the engine.

The city of Manaus is located right next to the Amazon River, where the Negro River, the largest tributary of the Amazon, meets the Amazon River. The reason why the city stands alone in the middle of the vast Amazon rainforest is mainly because of the rubber.

At the end of the 19th century, a large area of natural rubber was found in the upper reaches of the Amazon River, so people with dreams of making a fortune flocked to it, but it was almost impossible to build roads in the Amazon rainforest, so water transportation became the main mode of transportation, and Manaus was located at the confluence of two large rivers, so it naturally became a supply station, a transfer station, and slowly developed into a large city in the rainforest.

Until now, however, Manaus' main function has remained shipping, with almost no roads leading to the outside world other than airplanes, and unlike other cities, there are no long-distance bus and train stations, but large and small docks.

There are many ships at the wharf, but there are not many ships here, in Hong Tao's impression, he has been to many port cities, whether it is an inland port or a seaport, just in terms of the number of ships, none of them can compare with Manaus. There are not only 3 or 4 storey river cruises, but also low transport ships and cargo ships, but most of them are small passenger ships of the first or second floors, which are like long-distance buses, leaving or docking a few every half hour, and the whole city has to pass through them to get in and out of the city of Manaus.

Anaya's small wooden boat is actually not small, at least 15 meters long, and there is also a second-level observation deck, which is all made of wood, which looks a bit top-heavy. Although the boat was unremarkable, Anaya's piloting skills were so strong that less than ten meters from the dock he was rushing towards the middle of the river with full power, and there were countless small speedboats shuttling back and forth beside his boat.

This scene is like forcibly merging from the side of the road to the inside lane on the second ring road during the rush hour in Beijing, which is really frightening but not dangerous. Those who drove the runabout seemed to be accustomed to this kind of long spectacle, and those who could rush through the bow of the Anaya rushed with more horsepower, and those who could not rush through the water made a semi-arc on the water, so as to pass through the stern without slowing down.

"Holy! This guy is too fierce! Fat Bu watched a small runabout almost rubbing the side of the boat and his own ship, and his heart rose to his throat, and he let out a heartfelt admiration while holding the pillars on the deck with both hands.

"Hey, look at that guy on the boat opposite, doesn't he look like a pirate? You don't need to wear makeup, you can take a machete and act in a movie. Hong Tao patted the fat man's shoulder, his chin turned to the opposite side, and whispered in Chinese.

"I feel a bit like Artest! Especially the shape of the face and the physique, you can see that arm, which is almost as thick as my thighs. Fat Bu also saw the man on the boat opposite, but he had a different feeling.

"Who is Artest?" Hong Tao is very unfamiliar with this name.

"You don't look at professional basketball!" The fat man looked at Hong Tao like a monster.

"Look, I know Jordan and Kobe!" Hong Tao is really not basketball blind, but it is the same as watching football, just watching a lively one, not infatuated.

"Then let's change the subject, we're not on the same level." Fat Bu really despised it this time.

The surroundings are much more relaxed as the boat passes through the sea of boats near the port and reaches the middle of the river, which is a tributary of the Amazon and is extremely wide, at least 2 kilometers or more. The color of the river water is dark brown, as if it has been diluted many times by soy sauce, and it is a little cloudy, so it doesn't look very good.

"Hoo! Head to the bow of the boat and grab your cameras, the first view of the Amazon journey! Less than half an hour after the wooden boat had been traveling, Anaya suddenly poked her head out of the cockpit and greeted Hong Tao, who was chatting at the stern.

"What view?" Hong Tao and the three of them trotted all the way to the bow of the boat, holding the side of the boat and looking around, but they didn't see anything.

"Go to the second floor, go to the second floor!" Anaya's English is much worse than Fernando's, at least 3 out of 10 words in a sentence are wrong, let alone any grammar, fortunately, his accent is not too heavy, and Hong Tao can still hear most of it clearly after making up through his brain.

"What's that? Holy! Fat Bu was the first to get to the second deck, and then there was an exclamation.

"Sturgeon, don't just look at it, shoot it quickly! Shoot now! Hong Tao and the sturgeon also saw the so-called beauty, and they also grew their mouths and widened their eyes.

Not far from the bow of the boat, the river suddenly opened more than ten times, which is nothing, but the color of the river is too weird, the river near Hong Tao is the unique soy sauce color of the Negro River, and the river water in front of it suddenly turned earthy yellow, the two rivers keep impacting each other, stirring each other, no one can push anyone, so it is very wonderful to balance in a zigzag line, the boundaries are clear, just like the Chinese Taiji diagram, one side is black, the other side is yellow.

"Anaya, is this the confluence of two rivers? The black one is the Negro River, and what about the yellow one? Hong Tao understood the reason for this phenomenon, but he did not know that the other yellow river was the river. (To be continued......)

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