My trip from: Volcán, David, Panama City, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Barreiras, Brasilia, Manaus, Panama City, Bogotá, Panama City, David and back to Volcán.

Arriving at Salvador around 1pm.

Salvador

Salvador

White dunes of Salvador.

Leaving the airport under an arc of Bamboo.

Had about 2 hours, so decided to have a fried fish on the beach.

Leaving Salvador for Barreiras at 4pm.

Making an big curve over the coastline..

A 2 hour flight over a uninhabited green landscape.

From Salvador to Barreiras, a river and a mountain ridge.

My small plane at Barreiras airport.

View (next morning) from my 6th floor room at destination.

The first thing I always do is have a look at the products.

Beautiful fruits.

Super modern supermarkets in the middle of Brazil.

The Bunge installations, Cargill and Dreyfus were also present.

80 hectares of papaya.

All planted in circles.

The same for coffee.
 

All irrigated by Pivots of 0,5km long, so they make circles with a diameter of 1km!.

This how those Pivotes look from space !.

15 trucks of papaya per day whole year around.

Papaya, papaya...........

A nursery for coffee plants.

Sawing onions.

You won't believe it, but this cristal clear water is 6 meter deep. The greenish stuff is the bottom.

Cristal clear river that provides the water for the Pivote irregation.
 

Entrance to cotton processing plant.

Just liked these trees.

This machines aperates the cotton from it's seeds.

This machine presses the cotton in bales of 200kg.

Two 200 kg cotton bales.

This is just enough space for half their cotton harvest.

Colibri.

Colibri.

By car to Brasilia, about 650km.
 

Horrible accident, what we saw at the other side of that white car was beyond description.

A village on the way.

A village on the way.

Entering Brasilia, constructed from scratch starting in 1960.
 
 

Super modern city. All the banks, hotels etc are clustered together. So the joke is if you ask for a coffee in the coffee area, you have to go to the sugar area for your sugar.

In front of Lula's residence (President of Brasil).

This guy is not allowed to move for 2 hours.

Beautiful bridge over an enormous artificial lake that surrounds the city, which is built in the shape of an airplane.

The Brazilian government has 36 ministries, the last one is the ministry of FISH.

Statues in front of the cathedral, which being renovated and therefor covered by a kind of tent.

Face of St Paul.
 

The Supreme Court.
 

Military Headquaters, I think it is so big that the whole Brazilian military fits in it.

This dome has such an echo that the generals don't need a microphone to pep-talk the complete Brazilian military, to invade Suriname.

The Dome had beautiful curves.
 

Description of a wonderful church.

The Glasswindows were made by a Belgian.

Incredible those 4 walls.

The entrance.

On this market I bought some beautiful amatists for Sandra. Brasil is famous for these stones.

Taking off for MANAUS, in the middle of the Amazone basin, where the Amazone River meets the Rio Negro (Black River).

Amazone River, remember we are thousands of kilometers from the Atlantic Ocean.

Río Negro.
 

Turtles in front of the Manaus airport.

Taking off for Panama City in the middle of the Amazone jungle.

When you look carefully you see the Amazone River meeting the Rio Negro.

This is how it looks from Space. The yellow line is 2.2 km long and we are 1200 km from the Atlantic.

Flying hours and hours over the jungle.

Sometimes you see enormous rivers.

The "Halles" of Bogotá, 9 million people.

Dirty Potatoes.

Special kind of long onion, only seen in Colombia.
 

Papa Criolla, a very small potatoe and if you boil it too much, it explodes like popcorn.

Also here very modern supermarkets.
 

Prepairing the stand at the congress at the officers club for security reasons.

President Uribe.

Local Indians receiving the President.

Adriana, our hostess in our stand.

Local Indians in their typical costumes.

Just a quick explanation what I do. My company is called
www.cebollas-papas.com, SA. and represents the companies shown under my logo in the America's south of the Rio Grande at the US Mexican border.

Now we have founded Agro Industrias Asociadas Ltda, to do my work in Colombia representing the shown companies above.
 
 

Loads of security.

Guillermo, who runs and owns Agro Industrias Asociadas.

Probably you heart in the news that the FARC released one soldier, thats was discussed here!

Indians dancing for the president in their carnival costumes.
 

Generals, majors etc, you name it.

Some farmers.

Me working.

Ready to go home.

Flying over snowy peaks of the Andes towards Panama.

The new Skyline at the east side of Panama City.

The muddy beach just before landing.
 
 
 

Maggy and Eduardo (Eduardo made a fabulous ministrone) invited us as a kind of welcome home dinner when Sandra and I came up the mountains. From left to right: Sandra, her mother, Eduardo, Maggy, Diana, Fito. And my plate is empty.