The first thing that struck me about Manaus is that it had an oil refinery and Panamax container ships, 10x10x40 containers, and the cranes to move them. Manaus is a deep-water shipping port 1000 miles from the ocean. The St. Lawrence Seaway allows the same with the cities on the Great Lakes, but only through engineering dozens of locks. There a...

Gevangen in Manaus, vier dagen wachten op een vlucht: boring!