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Manaus
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Full blown stomach cramps now - can´t decide whats caused it, probably a bit of everything!!! Wehad arrangedwith Bastian & Fernando which Hostel to go to. We daftly walked aheadas they went to check out the boats for Belem. We arrived at thesametimeas they pulled up in a taxi....
Ill, with back ache and roasting we arrived in BAD moods!!!
Cheered up slighly we all went out for tea to a Pizza restaurant and a guided walk around Manaus by Veronique, afrench woman we´d got talking to who worked in Manaus for months at a time networking with amazonian tribes for a natural products company in France. Great conversations. We walked to the Grande Theatre, thiswas in the central square, all very posh built up during the rubber boom. There was a huge christmas tree in the middle of the square with candy sticks & decorations hanging off it. All the trees were decorated with lights - it all looked really festive, except of course for the intense heat...
The first proper day in Manaus wasspent in bed - ILL.
Second day, feeling a lot better we headed to the market to see all the fruits, we´d woken up to rain, fantastic it was loads cooler. There were huge trucks with pryamids of bananas, watermelons & other more local fruit we didn´t know the name of but tried in a range of juices. We´d decided to get a flight from Manaus to the coast having felt so ill we couldn´t face another boat trip. We were to be disappointed! The only available flight out of Manaus was on the 24th December at 11.50pm to Salvador!!!
Back to the port & booked 2 tickets from Manaus to Belem on the Slow boat, in a cabin reluctantly... for the following day. Cheered ourselves up with Japanese for tea, better eat something proper before we go as the excuse!!!
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