The dolphins are more playful than us,” says Diego Cifuentes, a co-founder ‘The of Villa Lilia Agroecoturistico, a community dolphin-watching project on Colombia’s Lake Nare. “If you give off good energy, they may even touch you.”
Cifuentes is sitting on a boat in the middle of a lake surrounded by thick forest, a two-hour boat ride from San José del Guaviare. In the water, a dozen tourists bob in fluorescent lifejackets, waiting for the, the local name for the pink Amazon River dolphin (). Soon enough, a plume of steam bursts from the water and the humped backs of three botos break the surface. The tourists giggle and squeal at the momentary encounter.
