| VISIT
TO INDIGENOUS "MARUBO" COMMUNITIES |
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- The visit to the
"Marubo" community is voluntary.
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- The river transport
from the Reserva Natural Palmari to the village of Atalaia
do Norte and back to the reserve is granted for free by the Reserva
Natural Palmari.
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- All other expenses
like the land transportation from Atalaia do Norte to the "Marubo"
maloka(s) and back, the entry fee to the "Marubo" maloka,
the buying of "Marubo" handicrafts and others have to be paid
by the visiting guest.
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- The road linking
Atalaia do Norte with the "Marubo" communities is paved. It
may turn better or even worse in accordance to the weather conditions.
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- The transportation
from the village of Atalaia do Norte to the "Marubo" communities
and back is provided by motorcycles, by small trucks, small pick-ups
or small busses, all in not very fine mecanical state driven by not
highly skilled drivers. Only by walking the distance is the other option
to get there.
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- To be very clear!
Said land transportation by motorcycles, trucks, pick-ups and busses
carries its own risks due to the state of the road, the driving skills
of the drivers and the condition of the transport conveyances. The mud,
the plain tires with no profile, the curvy and often wrongly inclined
road and the driving skills of the relevant drivers makes of this transport
an adventurous undertaking by itself.
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- The "Marubo"
communities, due to being located between the two villages of Atalaia
do Norte and Benjamin Constant have seen themselves confronted to a"white
man´s" way of life. Eventhough they have managed to carry
on with their traditional ways and culture, they have adopted some conditions
of modern life introduced by the "white man".
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- The "Marubo"
offer the visitor their culture, their traditional clothing, their cuisine
and food, their handicrafts and pottery and certain activities undertaken
by them in the context of a "Marubo" indigenous tribe.
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- The "Marubo"
indigenous will offer the visitor to try and experiment certain ritual
and medicational substances, some of them none-dangerous accelerators
(Rapé), others slightly stronger of a relaxing and analitical
conversational kind (Mambe), others even stronger of an halucinogenic
and laxative kind (Ayahuascá/Yagé) and others are very
strong of a laxative and purgative kind (Dart frog poison).
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- It is clearly to
be understood that these substances are offered by the "Marubo"
in direct relation to their independant and internal "Marubo"
community indigenous status and that such consumption or holding of
these substances by none-indigenous visitors as to brazilian law is
strongly prohibited and may carry fines and legal sanctions.
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- Minors may not
try or receive these substances by any reason whatsoever and only if
in presence of both their parents and with the explicit permit of both
parents they may try them.
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- The visit to these
"Marubo" communities from the moment of leaving the Reserva
Natural Palmari and until the return to the visitors centre of
the Reserva Natural Palmari, may last approximately 6 to 10
hours, if all goes according to routine plan.
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- Reaching the "Marubo"
maloca(s) depends on the transport conveyance availability, the weather
conditions and the ruling of the head of the "Marubo" community
upon arrival of the visitor to the relevant "Marubo" maloca(s).
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