first we're gonna take a canoe they have to shovel out the water so we can get him
no saddle wow he is barely above water
they're just staring us down
we are entering a buffalo farm we're about to start a tour and this is gonna be one of the
times like one we've never been on before what's up guys we are in nara zhou which is an island
in pera state in the amazon of brazil today we are gonna be swimming in the amazon but not in the way
that you may think so right now we're walking toward the river and we'll see what happens
so we're taking a walk through the forest and we're hearing parrots seeing monkeys
we just found this tree it's called the tumaru
karuma this is the taruma tree if you feel the leaves it has a very velvety texture
coming up to the river now this is what we're going to cross on that a buffalo the island
that we are on right now is very known for their buffaloes buffalo is part of their culture they
farm buffalo and they've been on the island for a long time they think that it was from a shipwreck
first we're going to take a canoe they have to shovel out the water so we can get in it
the buffalo is a big part of naruto's culture here
they make cheese they have milk from the buffalo meat they farm them here i don't know if you can
tell from the camera but they are massive they weigh about 1500 pounds depending on
the breed but i think the ones we're going to be riding today in the river are about 1400 pounds
for the first part of the journey we're gonna be taking one of these canoes
through the mangroves it looks beautiful we are out here far away from everything else
you can just hear the sounds of nature animals
gotta be careful
pretty
that odd looking contraption there is a shrimp trap they catch shrimp in these look another one
not taping
but you can you can walk we just got to this other part of the island by canoe
mangroves were gorgeous and now we are going to be riding on a buffalo as you guys have seen this
is a massive animal it weighs about fifteen hundred pounds and buffalo are a big part
of marijuana's culture people used to ride them they've been riding them for years now
we get to take part in that and feel like locals typically people who ride buffalo they only can
ride their own buffalo because they won't let because the buffalo won't let anyone else on
them but these buffalo have been around a lot of different people so they are okay with strangers
so they're telling us to ride the buffalo like a surfboard
and you hold onto the skin at the shoulders
you hop on your butt is going to be here your head's going to be here you can't have
your head any further up because the horns could get you and you want to stay balanced
he said you can grab their skin like this to hold on and it doesn't hurt them he said
because their skin is very tough from the leather and i'm a little nervous about this this animal
is powerful it has a lot of size but they tell us it's safe so let's go all right get up online
wow there it is
all right we're going this is a little scary you're really high up because this is a big
animal and you don't have a saddle no saddle we're just free backing it or whatever you
call it and they say that when they get in the water they don't stop here we go okay
wow
uh this is a crazy sensation it feels like we're sinking he is barely above water
they're actually swimming i cannot touch the ground
he's barely above water wow
that was awesome it seemed like they were sinking but i guess they were just enjoying it
this is awesome you feel one with buffalo but you have to balance the whole time
definitely one of them definitely one of the most unique experiences we've had in brazil
it is uh much different than riding a horse with a saddle
you can fall off pretty easily really close to each other and switching my
legs all right we just made it across i was just delivering a coconut coconut
oh my god i'm having a coconut on a buffalo right now
so that was a really fun experience when you're in the water it's a lot different than you think
it would be you kind of just float on top of them and you totally lay down on your stomach
and put your legs out time to get off
to get back we are walking on the shore and it's gorgeous there are mangrove trees in the middle
of nowhere here on the beach it feels like it's gonna rain we didn't bring umbrellas so
we did not come prepared it always rains in the amazon this time of year it usually
starts around 3 p.m which is about now but it really can hit any time of day
beautiful beach at the end of the buffalo ride it's just us out here us and a bunch of mangroves
so right now we're on an extremely flimsy bridge we got rules look at this it's
just a little tiny plank of wood and some sticks we can't put much weight on these
this goes for a long ways over the mangroves
who knows what's in these mangroves there are usually snakes frogs spiders crabs you name it
wow there's a woman in here
some of this is definitely rotting wood
so usually people who have mangroves near them they go around the mangroves
they go in the waters with boats if possible but in the more dry areas
of mangroves where you can't take a boat and you can't really walk you just don't
well here we just keep going on this little bridge that's maybe five feet above the floor
hey look something recognizable those little lines in the wood those are from the turo
a worm we actually ate that worm check out our last video if you haven't seen it yet
that's the head look how huge that one is this is so a few years ago an orchestra
played here in the middle of all this we were wondering why the bridge suddenly
changed a little bit it looked like there were maybe benches that used to be here and
listen to that and you can see these little squares and i guess that was where the band
members were these are the platforms that they would play on can you imagine attending a concert
in the middle of mangroves in the amazon what is that wow there are a bunch of hanging nests
up here listen to the sound of these birds beautiful sounds buffalos we made again
now we ride for two kilometers on these guys but with a saddle they actually feel a lot more
sturdy than riding a horse they have a lot more strength than a horse oh no we're approaching sick
alex's buffalo wants to race we're keeping our eyes out for monkeys we've seen a few already
they don't come extremely close but close enough where you can see them
there's some black and orange monkeys right up there they're just staring us down
listen to that loud roar it doesn't even really sound like an animal is making it
dinosaur creature that's about to come eat us out of jurassic park but not just
one monkey one monkey's making that sound but it sounds like it's way more than that listen
it has not stopped at all since we started hearing it like 10 minutes ago it sounds like a dinosaur
okay we just got off and now they're walking back by themselves
nice spread kind of i'm sore i think we're going to be really sore tomorrow
yes oh so this is the map of what we just did so we started here then we walked
this and then we hopped on the boat and did all of this and then we hopped on the buffalo
over here across the river then we walked the shoreline like this and this was the
cool mangrove walk and then we hopped on buffalo again to do the rest and get back
further than we thought extremely sore i think when we ride horses few times
we have you kind of get sore from being in that position it's not normal for a person
so yeah this was even worse than that because they're wider
great day great experience probably something we'll never do again in their whole lives
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