After a day on the Perguica river traveling toward its delta, we arrived at a small village called Mandacaru where we were welcomed by a bunch of kids offering to be our travel guides through the village and a bar-shack where an experienced bartender offered to mix any imaginable caipirinha from the many different flavored home-made cashacas. Needless to say we obliged tasting as many caipirinhas as we could handle.