Presidente Figueiredo

We left Boa Vista for the two day drive to Manaus. It was more savannah which had been cleared for farmland...

...with occasional wide rivers to cross.

We stopped at the Equator Monument. We were approaching the Waimiri Atrari Indigenous Peoples Reserve. This is a restricted area as the locals fiercely protected their lands rsulting in the killing of several construction workers, missionaries and negotiators.

The main road crosses 120 kilometres of their land and transit at night is mot permitted and traffic must not stop for any reason which crossing the reserve. It was late afternoon so we find a bush camp before the start of the reserve and erected our tenyts in the rain.

In the morning, we entered the reserve. Unlike the savannah, this is all pristine jungle with the canopy meeting overhead and the jungle growing right up to the road. 

There is only the road and by special agreement, a new power line is being built, hence the partially built pylon to the right. The workers are subject to the same rules and can only enter to erect the pylons during dylight hours and must be out of the reserve before 6pm.

We had an enforced stop in Presidente Figueiredo as the truck had a leaking fuel injector tht needed fixing.