Floating Dock Manaus

... for the floating fuel station to fill up - yep, just like Asia. After that they took us past their ugly famous UK built floating dock. We turned around and headed downriver to the Meeting of the Waters. The Meeting of the Waters is where the dark tea ...

... proceeded to our floating lodge on the Rio Negro. This isn't a lodge like one might think. The 'lodge' was essentially a big floating dock with a metal roof. We slept in hammocks and ate fish everyday and pretty much every meal. I was fortunate to ...

... boy, did it rain!!!!!!!!!! Manaus is the state capital of Amazonas, the largest yet least populatedstate in Brazil.  The waterfront of Manaus and the floating dock was busy with all manner of rivercraft and people.  At sunrise it is possible to ...

... with Amazon Destinations and are expecting our guide Miqueias to meet us at the gangplank, but we have missed the prime spot on the floating dock so are told we have to get the shuttle to the terminal, where we use the free but slow wifi and eventually ...