Everything starts in Manaus, located where the black water of the Rio Negro joins the brown water of the Amazon. Manaus is Amazonia's hub of modern day activity, located 1,000 miles West from the mouth of the world's mightiest river. At the edge of town we catch a boat to take us and our equipment up river. As you can see, we run out of civilization fast. It seems as though we are on the edge of the world.

These again are children from the village where we left civilization behind. This is the last tribe of people we saw who have had contact with the modern world. From this point we were on our own.