Amazon III

The section between Manaus and Santarem takes only 36 hours with a passenger boat. The weather was good on the entire trip. The amazing thing is how big the Amazon has become after all the sideriver that haved joined it on the way. Some times it's 2 km towards both sides and in the front you can only see the horizon. Sometimes you can see riverdolphins next to the boat. There were about 10 Germans on the boat next to the Australiens and me. (Rudelbildung) We played some Janik (israeli card game) and Texas hold em to kill the time. On the scond evening we arrived in the mayham of a local festival. Their were ships all over the river and extremly loud fireworks. It felt a bit surreal.
We ultimatly arrived at 1 o'clock in the morning. But we didn't leave the hammocks until the morning.