Local oarsmen who regale visitors with historical details, guide the kahns — once the primary means of transportation in the area — through shallow channels teeming with river life.
Now desert, the Kem Kem beds were once criss-crossed with rivers teeming with car-sized coelacanths, seven-metre-long sawfish, giant lungfish, sharks and several species of crocodile-like predators.
The sun is relentless but the locals make it work in their favour, air-drying steak to make carne de sol, a Cuiaban specialty, and the surrounding region is threaded with rivers teeming with local fish such as caxara, pintado, pacu and pera putanga, creatures so removed from an ordinary notion of the piscatorial life it seems pointless to offer a translation of their names.
A wonderful snow covered landscape, with forests of Birch and Spruce and rivers teeming with Salmon.
Think rugged coastlines, remote islands, rivers teeming with fish, beautiful rainforests, towering escarpments and savannah woodlands.
It is also a big country, larger than Texas, teeming with fertile land, surging rivers and copper.
The state is sprinkled with three million lakes – the majority of which don't even have names – and 3,000 rivers teeming with fish.
In the new recreation-minded West, cheap power is now seen as less important than swift-flowing rivers teeming with fish.
The rail lines and Underground have over the years hired prominent artists like Cassandre and Edward McKnight Kauffer to paint views of glamorous train stations, rural rivers teeming with easily caught fish and suburban parks awash in foxglove and bluebells.
We'd stop for lunch at his uncle's house on the Bogue Falaya, a lazy river teeming with turtles.
Speeding down a river, teeming with wildlife with nothing but a torch sure makes for an exhilarating evening.
