PPS Destinations Report

Agua Boa, Amazon River Basin, Brazil

Date:         Spring  2003

Reported by Dr. Juan Ordonez, Oakland, CA, USA

    The trip to Agua Boa was a wonderful experience. The traveling is easy, with a weekly Varig flight leaving Miami for Manaus, followed by a comfortable one-hour charter flight north to the just-built lodge.  The Royal Amazon Lodge, has excellent  food, a refreshing pool, no mosquitoes, and some of the best fishing to be had in the Amazon. The water in the river and nearby lagoons is clear and one can sight-fish for several different species, including peacock bass to 18 pounds (my catch, others did better), the smaller but more beautiful butterfly bass, arauanas  and other species. To sight fish for those fish can not be described; it must be experienced! I caught 18 fish on my best day and about 10 in my worst. Plenty of caimans too (the local crocks), birds, capibaras and other local fauna and...no mosquitoes!!!.

    Manaus is an interesting town to tour, with its magnificent opera house in the middle of the jungle, a museum with a tank containing a 60 pound Baby fish and the unique meeting of the waters: the yellow Amazon and the black Rio Negro Rivers, which flow for miles without mixing (due to different speeds and temperatures), offering a unique natural phenomenon to see.

The outfitting is done by Frontiers International, which guarantees comfort, and the managers are the Vermillion brothers (Sweetwater Travel), of Mongolian memory  (see the PPS webpage for our Mongolia trip report) . Superb!!. They had so much success this first year there, that the place appears completely booked for next year.    I will be back for sure, and would like to do this trip with our PPS group.

Dr. Juan Ordonez, MD

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