This is the airplane we took to San Borja...OVER the Andes Mountains!

A pic of the western, dry side of the Andes!

A short ten minutes later...the Amazon Basin! What a great shot of an oxbow lake!

Here I am ready for a day's adventure! A modern-day Indian Jones??

This is a small portion of Manfred's property outside of San Borja.

These tiny bananas were absolutely delicious! Grown on Manfred's farm!

Here I am eating a mango right off of the tree...WOW!

Left to right... Manfred's caretaker, Manfred, Victor and Jorge. Great folks!

A few of the folks of San Borja enjoying the river on a hot afternoon,

Folks, this is really meat fresh off the hoof! This beef is not 15 minutes dead and headed for the markets of San Borja! Notice the head!!

This is breakfast in San Borja! This lady is making empanadas and making change for customers at the same time... no Starbuck's here!

Here, Jorge is talking with the caretaker of his property about what can be done next with a well that did not produce water.

This shot shows how the countryside outside of San Borja looks.

On the banks of Rio Maniqui!

Jorge showed me this skin of an Anaconda hung in a shop. It was 8 meters long! I could not get it all in the shot!

If you look close you wil see a Chimani Indian family traveling downstream on a raft...the preferred mode of travel!

This is the END of the road that Manfed is building. The river is just out of sight!

Here I am, the tall one, with the Chimanis! What a great experience it was for me to visit with these native peoples!

This is one of the Chimani sleeping huts!

The Chimani's kitchen!

This stream serves many functions for the Chimani. Upstream it provides water for cooking, and further downstream it becomes the bath and laundry.

This photo shows one of San Borja's generators. ALL electricity for the town is provided by four generators. During the hot afternoons they shut down!

Motorbikes...everone's favorite!