Amazon I

The boat was pretty primitiv and conditions on board smelly. The toilet was an adventure on its own. So it payed off to be part of the male population, because we got privileged by nature to pee while standing. So people further down in the boat constantly looked concerned upwards if some water came down. The hammocks are hung up as close to each other as possible and food is being provided three times a day. I spent a lot of time with reading and talking to a girl from Colombia. By now my spanish allows me to talk about almost everything. There were also two Americans on board. He was professor of Pennsilvania and his right hand a student from Penn State. She origins from the western Ukraine. But after the cold war she moved to America, where they lived in the woods before they got on top of things. These nice people try to create better possibilities for local villages. They explain to the local people how they can make money with the products they produce. For example the professor buys all there artesan and then sells them on ebay. The profit flows back to the people.
The boat constantly stoped at little villages and cargo got unloaded. Mainly ice seems to be what these people desparatly need to store there food. And because there are not a lot of boats comming by, all the kids run twoards the ship to see what people live and consume beyond their village.
After 4 days and 3 nights we arrived in Santa Rosa. The peruvian village in the three country triangle.