Blogs from Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, South America - page 11

Hi all, I thought I would keep you informed of our travels if you are interested. The Tommos... read more

ah oui j avais oublie que j avais oublie de vous parler de mon projet. j ai achete une pirogue et je vais avec un grecque remonter l amazone jusqu a tabatinga qui se trouve a la frontiere avec le perou et la colombie. ca fait a peu pres 1000 km et cela va me prendre environ 1 mois. la plupart du trajet se fera a la rame et nous dormirons dans des villages le long du chemin. nous aurons quand meme un petit moteur.... read more

bonjour a tous, ca fait un petit moment que je n ai pas donne de nouvelles. j ai pu reparer l appareil photo qui avait un virus donc je peux a nouveau mettre des photos sur le blog.j en ai deja ajoute quelques unes et les autre se sera pour demain car l ordi de l hotel est vraiment lent. j ai donc passe 3,5 jours sur le bateau et c est une experience assz exceptionnel et 3 jours ca suffit amplement.en fait c est un bateau pour 130 personnes et on etait entre 250 et 300 donc on dormait hammac sur hammac. la premiere nuit j ai dormi sur le pont avec un bresilien ( homosexuel ) et son chien car je ne savais vraiment pas comment acceder a mon hamac sans taper la vielle ... read more

Day 1 (Monday) - Marta and Andre, who were so helpful in getting across the border, were on the same bus. We were planning on splitting a cab but it turned out we were in opposite directions. The bus terminal had a tourist information desk with someone who spoke English, which seemed great at first. However, this gentlemen proved to be nothing more than an obstacle. He spoke English but either he didn't understand what he was saying or what I was asking because every answer he gave seemed contrary to the last. For instance, I pointed at a map and asked, "Is this where we are?" To which he responded, "Yes, but it will take you a 10 minute bus ride to get there." And so it went until I gave up and decided to ... read more

We woke up early to catch our flight from Sao Paulo to Manaus, an arduous ordeal to say the least. The flight ran smoothly however and once in Manaus we found our hostel, read, watched a film and bedded down for the night. Wednesday was again an early start, and we headed to the ferry port, not the airport our taxi driver had misinterpreted, to catch the 2 day boat to Tabbatinga, a small port on the three frontiers between Peru, Brazil and Colombia. Much to our dismay it transpired that the 2 day boat leaves Manaus west only once a week. That day was Tuesday and Manaus was a dive. F***k! Was the word of the hour. So resigning ourselves to the 6 day cargo boat trip we went about packing, grabbed a hammock each ... read more