The Tupi people, one of the main ethnic groups of Brazilian indigenous people, believe in a male supernatural being called “Curupira” that guards the forest in Tupi mythology. I crowned this BLOG with his name because I aspire the BLOG, which deals with insects as part of the nature, to play a role just like Curupira who protects the forest from the destructive habits of man.
14 Oct, 2008
When I got to the Museum at 8:00 this morning, I ran into two youngsters from Germany at the entrance.
They must have ...
left their hotel in Centro around 7 o'clock and took the bus to come all the way downhere. In the scorching heat of the Amazon dry season they were already soaked with sweat.
I was dreadfully sorry but I explained the situation and told them they were deprived of entry.
I was so sorry that I had let them down.
As things stand now, there is no prospect of reopening the Museum.
At around 4:00PM yesterday, Manaus was thrown into total disorder as all the services of the city's networks, fixed-line phones, mobile phones, ATMs and credit card settlements came to a stop altogether. According to the local newspaper reports, it was due to a link disturbance in the trunk line connecting between Manaus and Sao Paulo.
As it turned out, the failure occurred in the jungles a few tens of kilometers away from Port Velho, which is located 800km from Manaus. That explains the delay in remedial work.
This sort of failure happens almost once in a month here in Brazil.
Power failure has become a routine with the residents, maybe twice a week, if not everyday.
This is the real situation of Manaus, a city embracing a population of 1.8 million as of 2008.
Penned on the 14th of October
