Flew into Manaus over the Amazon river!! Was awesome the whole thing is huge just cutting its way through miles of dense jungle, you could clearly see the meeting of the two different waters, one a cold tea clear brown and the other a murcky sandy brown, they meet but due to th temperature changes don´t mix??. On arriving at the airport we had to find help because muppet me left my swiss army knife in my day bag and customs pulled me up and it had to be checked in on its own!! so i now had the mission of tracking it down, a guide at the airport found us after overhearing our attempt at portuguese (still very ropey!!), in the end got my knife and the guide happened to be a tourist info worker
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