May 28 2012 Top 7 / Rivers

The river is life, blood flowing through their banks planet. There are glacial rivers, tinted waters of the Amazon basin, rivers flowing through valleys is impossible in Mexico. Some drag become less lyrical and wild, other cross deserts to remind us that without them there is death only Sandy. The rivers cross mangroves, jungles and mountains to take a message: the world lives and drinks from them.

1.- Grijalva (Chiapas)

Drain runs through the canyon as he crawls into a giant parade. The Grijalva River is home to vultures and crocodiles, causing the admiration of the visitor who doubt whether it is better to look to their banks or the peaks of the gorge that rises above them.

2.-Rio Dulce (Guatemala)

Palms, herons, monkeys, more palm trees, tangled undergrowth on the banks, aquatic plants, huts hidden, and even more palm. I sailed the Rio Dulce greeting fishermen living absorbed in water paradise. Beyond, after the palm trees, the journey ends in the Caribbean Sea.

3.-Zambezi (Zambia)

A primitive world governs the Zambezi. Visitors navigate the river feeling David Livingstone from their ships with minibar, but a boat at anchor in these waters would ensure actual encounter with the herds of hippos and the roar of Victoria Falls. The Zambezi is a fascinating place, until he has to swim across.

A few kilometers from the Arctic Circle, I felt the loneliness of the forest, the magic of water hypnotic green poking through the foam of the rapids.

4.-Glacier River Svartisen (Lapland, Norway)

The icy water of the glaciers protest against the rocks, the cuts on his descent. When I visited the National Park Svartisen, a few kilometers of the Arctic Circle, I felt the loneliness of the forest, the magic of water hypnotic green poking through the foam of the rapids.

5.-Amazon (Brazil)

A sea crossing jungles, a monster freshwater and wild land. In the Amazon, everything is disproportionate, infinite-minded. Here grow the pink dolphins and piranhas, floating houses here and the flowers are three meters in diameter, Black River empties here, a giant dwarfed by the Solimoes, that is what they call some indigenous to the world's largest river.

6.-New River (Belize)

The New River could be considered a stream compared to the previous, but what I can say? I was seduced by that path through mangroves. Perhaps it is for its crocodiles, their jabirus, its ospreys. Because today will sail its waters Mennonites or perhaps because the Mayan pyramids of its banks reminded me that this river is older than its name, here has always been someone watching.

7.-The Nile (Sudan)

This river is a miracle, a feat of water. Its passage causes the bow of the traveler who does not quite understand how a river is able to break into an area where drought makes fun of man and plants. The Nile is like an old man who refuses to die, progresses slowly, no further than a Mediterranean, eternal.