Macapa
Travel Blogs from Macapa, Brazil
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Lost in the middle of the Atlantic
Feb. 1st Another day at sea! Spent much of my day today outside in the sunshine. It is soooo HOTT outside because we are just above the equator…still haven’t gotten sunburnt though, 100 proof sunscreen does the job! I love watching the ...
Days 17-20 Hello Jungle by Erin Socks
... sea of carts to grab your baggage... I've got the bruises on my ankles and shins to prove it. Anyway, we arrived in Macap'' safely, where Carolyn's Aunt Lui was waiting and extremely excited to greet us. Apparently, Macap'' is kind of the end of ...
Thoughts
... now and I left out some of the things I saw in Brazil that trigued my emotions. The inequality gap is enormous in Brazil and that was evident during my time there and nothing is being done about this. They are obsessed with America, ...
annoying amapa
i travelled the length of what was a beautiful looking state of indiginous villages, jungle and farms. it was however, spent in the back of a jeep with one leg on top of the other, with three drunken construction workers(the sweaty one of course trying ...
"Freedom In Creation"
“Freedom In Creation”, is a non-for profit organization started by an amazing, passionate man named Andrew Briggs. He traveled with Semester at Sea 10 years ago and he has joined us for the beginning of our voyage and he will get off in ...
Comment vous a-t-on raconté tout ca?
Arrivés ŕ la fin de notre périple, il me semble légitime de vous dévoiler dorénavant LE mystčre. Quel mystčre me direz-vous? Mais bien sűr celui qui vous a "tenu en haleine" pendant ces presque 5 mois et demi que nous avons passés ...
READING DAY!
... ; Everyone is getting a bit antsy on the boat and we are all sooo excited to get to Brazil tomorrow at 8am. I leave tomorrow for my riverboat trip for one night and then I am heading to Rio for two nights! ...
Good Mornin' Brazil!
... ;We have a reading day tomorrow (AKA No classes and a nice sunbathing day) and then Sunday mornign we arrive at our port in Brazil! We are heading 1000 miles in the Amazon, CRAZY! The river is actually extreamly wide, which I had no idea about ...
Routing to Macalpa
Set of this morning on our drive to the town of Macalpa, although we know we will not reach it today since it is about 600 kms. The first 100 kms was very good tarmac road and then it deteriorated into a not too bad dirt road with only the occasional ...
Terug op de Amazone: Santarem-Macapá
... muziek - meestal iets ragatonne-achtigs of iets charmezingers-achtig met wat country-achtergrondgeluiden). Twee dagen later komen we in Macap'' aan- “Ergens in de ochtend” had de Franse camping-hostel-uitbaatster gezegd. Wat we niet wisten ...
crossing the Equator
... board to check our papers then we cruise up the river all day and overnight arriving in Santarem...our first stop in Brazil...on Saturday morning. This is followed by five straight days of port stops before leaving the river and heading north for ...
Avaő to Macapá
Belem belem belem ...whole log is a bit out of sync, will have to sort it out when I get a chance and cheap internet ...
Une journee de bus
... pose le pied sur l'autre rive,au Brésil. Un type nous aborde, et nous aide : trouver les horaires de bus pour Macapa, marcher 1 km pour faire tamponner nos passeports, retirer ŕ la banque, trouver un endroit oů manger... Aprčs avoir passé une bonne ...
Up the Amazon
... area is so large that the continental USA almost fits inside it. This area is approximately 60% of the land mass of Brazil roughly covering 1.3 million square miles. The massive river system contains a fifth of the world’s fresh running water at ...
"Croisiere" sur l Amazone...
... y habitue !! Arrivee a la gare a 3h du matin, et depart avec Sina et David (un couple franco allemand) pour le port de macapa ou l'on a fait le marche aux poissons, fraichement peches, et a l'acaď (baie utilisee pour faire des jus, des glaces... il ...
At Sea, En Route To Santarem
... excellent lectures given by the Keynote Speaker Julian Bond and the former Poet Laureate Rita Dove. To get us prepared for Brazil, one afternoon our Group Leaders Helena Baltazar and Rui Veiga—who are both Portuguese—gave us an overview of ...
Party in the jungle
... /black eyed beans in stock) and salad (typically the big 3 tomato, onion and lettuce)). Meal times in the boat are early for brazil, 6, just before 12 and 6 for dinner. We guess this is to promote early bed times and not have the lights on all night. ...
The most untourist trip I ever made
... friends. All from there. Only us were tourists. And we felt like gringos, because, despite of we were from the same country, Brazil is really different from north to south. For this reason, everybody come to talk with us, and show the things of Amazon. ...
Bye Bye Amazon..Ghana here we come
7.00 am Breakfast 8.00am Air Pollution class 9.15 Global Studies 12.00 Lunch and leave the Amazon 1.00pm Bioluminescence talk to all the life-long-learners 3.00pm People are starting to get sea sick around here tonight : 2030 – ...
Exploring the City
We only had one day to explore the city of Manaus. It is a city of about 2 million people, and is the major gateway into the heart of the Amazon rain forest. Our first impression was of a bustling city that felt a little overwhelming. There are thousands ...
The Imaginary Line
... , we decided to take another cab back to the boat. Our driver was delighted to “fala Portuguese” with Michael and keeps up a nonstop dialogue. By the way Macapa is very clean....big interest in sustainable development of the ...
1000 miles from Manaus (short positional update)
We are +1000 miles from Manaus. 1 degree north of the equator the swells are 10 ft and its 12,000ft deep ...
“A” day on the MV Explorer
... us and we played a game of rummy cub. I was happy to see some of my students doing their “Infectious diseases of Brazil” homework. 6.00pm Dinner. Matthew, Dianne and I ate together. (fettuccine with blue cheese, salad, paella, date pudding) ...
First plane ride
... in a city on a dirt road that was so dirty we nearly got stuck a few times. 12 hours later of this we arrived in Macapa for our flight down to Rio. Having run out of time a flight was needed. OUr flight was at 1am at we arrived 5 hours early. This ...
Macapa, 2nd Destination
Macapa, our second destination. We rejoined the "adults" after our concerts and jumped into the project of building a church... yes, just miles from the equator... and yes, it was ...
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