Bailique

The most interesting town we visited on our trip from Belém was called Bailique. It is a remote village that straddles a river and has a short, overgrown airstrip. Because the town sits on jungle swampland, all the houses are on stilts and are connected by suspended wood plank sidewalks.

When we arrived in the morning, all the boats in Bailique were grounded in empty riverbeds. When we left that afternoon, the tide had come in, and those boats were floating on about ten feet of water.

Bailique was like something out of a movie – a surreal, dreamlike neighborhood. Here are some pictures: