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Hammock Jungle
... for being overweight. The boat turned around, back to the first dock to negotiate with the police. After a short interchange, it was decided that they needed to unload a significant amount of 2 liter bottled sodas, of all colors and flavors. They unloaded thousands of bottles, I would estimate 8 to 10 tons of weight in bottles of soda. Seems to be quite the addiction everywhere we go... people love their soda. We were glad the police pulled us over, navegating the Amazons ...
Prep for the First Big Excursion
So tomorrow is rugged adventure number one. Alyssa and I are freaking out. We have to wear long sleeve shirts and long pants and socks on our hands and feet to protect from bugs. We are also wearing netting. Oh- and 98.9% deet bug spray. I hope scary Amazon things don't attack us while we sleep in hammocks on a little rocking boat. AHHH DADDY!!!!!
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Ropes and Limits
This entry is for Part 2 of the Amazon boat experience. I felt like the second half of my Amazon cargo boat journey deserved its own entry because it seemed to me a distinct experience from the first.
So as I said in the last entry, I finally left Alter do Chao because I only had a few more days left in Brazil before I would start to incur fines for staying more than 90 days and I still had the jungle waiting for me in Manaus. OK, I know I ...
Reflecting and Listing
I left Belem on the evening of December 29. The journey was to take 3 nights and 3 days. This meant that I spent New Year's Eve on the Rodrigues Alves cargo boat as it floated down the Amazon. This was a deliberate decision on my part for two reasons: (1) Brazilians take New Year's Eve seriously and they book up every single room in every worthwhile city months in advance, so my non-planning method of traveling kind of screwed me and I had no other ...
Up the Amazon Popeye style
The boat to Manaus takes four days. Of course you have to pass the toughest customs ever first! As this border is one of the most popular for smuggling cocaine from Colombia, the Brazilian police check everything very carefully. They had two sniffer dogs and even the police themselves had a go sniffing the bags! Can't imagine what they expected to smell that the dogs couldn't. ...
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