New year holiday in Amazon Forest
This year I have decided to have a different experience on the new year holiday. I’ll go to Amazon Forest, precisely to a city that is 2 hours away from the capital, where the access is only by boat. I’ll meet a group of people I don’t know previously, but I’m sure this will not be a problem, because I believe that trips are a good context to make friends.
The trip will have 8 days and the idea is to dedicate 2 days for social work with the community of the region. We have been talking to the village leader and he told us that people of that region want to learn about entreupreneurship and business and some of us will study and prepare a speech with good tips about these topics. Moreover, we will help to paint some houses and build some trash bins to help on the nature conservartion.
On the other days, we will have several activities, like a day listening histories of the indigenous people, a night learning about how to survive in the Forest, boat trips around Rio Negro, a lot of opportunities to taste the local food, time to swim in the river and the new year eve party with Brazilian and regional music.
I had never participated in this kind of trip before. It’s a community-based tourism, that is gaining space in Brazil and in the world. I hope I have a good experience, because for Brazilians the party of new year is very symbolic. As I have been living a lot of changes in my life, this ideia of being alone, with different  people, represents to me freedom, self confidence and hope.














