Riverboats
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South
of Manaus there are no maintained roads so all land transport is river
based - unless you have a 4 wheel drive and a lot of patience. We travelled
down to Porto Vehlo - a journey of 4 days. Here are some views of river
life as we saw it.
The
best thing about this part of the trip was getting up first thing in the
morning and sitting on the upper deck with a pair of binoculars and watching
the jungle wake up. Plenty of river dolphins too - although these are
almost impossible to photograph.
Accomodation
on board was in hammocks (above). Ours are in the middle adjacent to a
post (drunken Brasilians love to rock hammocks!) and well away from the
toilets. You spend most of the trip in your hammock so it pays to get
aboard early and claim a good spot.
This
is what happens to you if you drink Brasillian wine. Most if not all boats
have a bar on the upper deck - the beer is better than the wine. The girl
on the right is Libby from Australia.
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