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Day Eleven

crossing the boundaries between the muddy water of the Amazon and Rio Tapajos “clear, blue, clear sky in the early hours of the morning put the Princess Royal after the Docas do Pará Santarem terminal 0846 to one of two degrees north 24 minutes and 54 degrees 44 minutes west longitude position among the many small river boats, against a due north, zero-degree position.

Brown waters such as the Amazon, flows through sedimentary rocks and run with it large amounts of sediment with them, while the so-called black water, as the flows of the Rio Tapajós self crystalline rocks and drain heavily forested areas. Because of their different density, temperature, acidity bride, resisted for several miles and finally triggered by turbulence.

In 1661, Santarem, almost midway between the cities of Belem and Manaus, Amazonas at the junction of the Amazon River and the 15-mile-wide Rio Tapajos located founded and is the third largest city in the basin with a population of 265 000 and serves as the gateway to his deepest heart.

In 1927 Henry Ford had 43.000 square miles of rain forest, authorized 50,000 hectares and planted three million trees, rubber, construction of a town called “Fordlandia” to facilitate and serve the massive cultivation, but a 17-year interval, and millions of expenditure had resulted only in failure and he sold the land in Brazil for the ridiculous sum of 0.000.

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Santarem, Echo of the Yukon in the late 1800s exploded with the discovery in 1958, a gold vein in Itaituba, later within 60 miles on the Rio Tapajós overnight as a gateway thousands of gold seekers who traveled by sea and air.

Eleven years, in 1969, the completion of a road between the city of Cuiaba road network to Brazil for the first time, although the river still serves as a main traffic artery. Small boats in the early morning hours on the fresh-caught catfish, piranhas and picaruru sell, among other types of calls when riverboats, the roles of floating bus service between the cities take on Amazon all day and night, driven by the lifting gas stations.

Santarem is a leading manufacturer of hammocks many advantages over mattress. they are cool, cheap and offer portable, also for use Cruises on the Seine at night, while the mattress, the hot mold and easily

The nearby farm of cassava, is located on the route age Chao and operated by farm families, is a series of thatched huts display indigenous fruit , applications of medicinal plants, the extraction of rubber trees and cassava flour production.

at the bark of rubber trees produce section, a red wound as if it bleeds, and it coagulates slowly in white latex which is then extracted.

manioc flour, a nutritious staple foods of the Amazon Basin is a human-powered saw, covered the root of the cassava toxicity cuts. It is then his liquid pressed reduced coarse flour and roasted. before they loaded into bags for transport to market . The operation is entirely outdoors, in a raw, straw roof

When the sun nor the sky pastel, had westward curved to 1700, life in the Amazon began in the port of Santarém to relax: The three canoes decorated with open sides, the means of connectivity between pockets of civilization on the frontier, long since abandoned their daily routine, while a truck was in a well secured under the massive cruise ship Royal Princess, its shipping costs. expanses of green leaders accepted in the direction of the city on the green velvet taken had emphasized horizontal, while the Tapajos river glittered a silver mirror. The river was crucial Amazonian communities, just as I am so far a tiny portion followed by two days after a cruise on the river.

I think back to the short break. riverbank was used to define the path of the vessel size restrictions, which had left him little choice if she wanted to achieve their goal. But what had defined my way, and to what goal lead would it be?

Dusk watercolor painted the sky orange, the Amazon rain forest in the West that began in the light blue stripes and glow even intensified refractionary, so that the sculptures scattered cloud of silver and gray, and Amazon have a dark, quiet metal. This area has once again facilitate the buoyancy of the vessel and the movement through the darkness, while citizens can not exploit the Amazon for their lives when the sun appeared to the next day.

an excellent dinner in the Club Restaurant at the evening from the White Zinfandel wine, eggplant leaf with roasted garlic and goat cheese soup, cream of barley with smoked hocks, turkey schnitzel was characterized Roquefort Cream together pumpkin puree and spicy red bliss potatoes, Austrian Sacher Torte Ice Cream Latte;. and coffee

slip its moorings in 1827, the Royal Princess is now pinches of 280 degrees to the west and a gentle pace of 12 knots in 2200th folding of the Amazon River, its ship-lit, the color of coffee and milk seemed solid snow on the fuselage, There are slalomed has gradually narrowed the gap between

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breakthrough thin orange line of the horizon is 0540 by penetrating into the surging, training money to extend the tropopause as high mountains ringing, on a day other saturated humid Amazon. Keep timber ten knots, the ship followed a 243-degree position.

Anchored in the silver morning at 0723 with six left, was the Princess Royal movement with two degrees 27 minutes north latitude and 56 degrees west longitude of 27 minutes, to coordinate.

operating in the extension hydraulically from the boat access ramp to tender on deck 3 to several small wooden canoes barely big enough to support families and children of the village and so immersed in the mud that Amazon was the level of water in parallel to their sides and had to be dug continuously backtracked from the giant liner, gawk, touch and see “civilization”, a life without their knowledge and thus something that looks like a foreigner visitors to Earth. Although the passengers of the vessel in waiting impatiently for the taste of local life, had the first meeting indicated that they considered the experience of every bit of reciprocity and, if it is not because of a benign curiosity, they could be self-interpreted as “invaders. “

at the confluence of the Amazon and Rio da Valeria, Boca da Valeria located, translated as” mouth of the river Valeria “is the representative of thousands of small, isolated communities in the Amazon basin in which basic, almost primitive riberinhos bone “or” residents “from the river and the rain forest based in a dozen houses for wood piles live, visitors to its 75 residents a unique school and church and share a communal farm of cassava and produce on the field. It is by any measure that are considered “real Brazil.”

cover the short distance from the Princess Royal to the bottom center of the water sheet, pink dolphins, my kind of saturated fat, muddy, molasses, with its lower dual dock, two boats around the river before entering the wooden houses on stilts over and straw huts marking the Boca da Valeria “pocket of humanity”, which could also be considered have a “pocket (orders) of the time. “For the residents it was” home. “It was all she knew. We brought our preconceived ideas” of the house that we had was known. Neither was the same or even close. Maybe I will find common elements between the two during my visit.

When I landed on the small wooden floating dock, a bit more of a floating boat, I heard the words, “Welcome to the Jungle” The last and only in English, the filing of the unpaved road to the amount of the villagers and indigenous children out, and soon realized that we have the same desire to discover and appreciate the different ways of life of the common is another. I was in the process, served as a bridge between my world and theirs.

The dirt road leads past the pit lane with a thatched roof, which could be regarded as a village market and have shown their land, arts and crafts, especially in an economic activity targeted tourists in the village community. The entrepreneurial process of buying, sales and profits was entirely new to them.

Stucco Escola Municipal de Sao Francisco “or” municipal school of St. Francis, “with a yellow and blue exterior windows and wooden shutters without glass, an interior built Spartan chairs and tables, a ball and a plaque on the a banner with mathematical examples, divided into four functions, has been exposed as “adição” or “more” and “multiplicaco”, or “Multiplication”, among others. The one-room school was clearly the basis of the Community or of the heart, and channel the knowledge and pride of learning and high grades were equally and presented its tasks and drawings hung on the wall behind the range of human emotions from my hometown in the U.S. in this small village in the Amazon.

followed and surrounded by a crowd of children that I have visited the classrooms and fever took notes, I felt their interest and curiosity, but not in my interest or activity, but in the gifts I received was dangled for them and in the pocket of my hand. All of us, as tourists, can be made for the unknown elements of the modern world in this pursuit of the primitive jungle strengthened their curiosity, but they were just curious and wanted to know if I had brought some thing for them was different when I was a child likes to keep an eye had to throw in a bag a parent visit made and hopefully asked, “Do you have something in for me

A field of women invited me to his house. Door locks and police stations were of trust here, replaced, or perhaps on the order was reversed in my company. Greed and materialism have certainly increased significantly the amenities of life, but these “primitive” people had their virtues, and thus maintained a relationship with God, the realization seems to avoid the need for that luxury unless and until they are faced with temptation. Unfortunately, we are represented as tourists.

The house, on the Internet with three rough wooden planks that as steps and consists of a smell in three rooms of the rarity: a kitchen more with just over a table, a living room with only one office and one room only recognizable as such by his hammock room wall, but a modern civilization that seems clearly outside of the city attacked my eyes and ears and ruined what had become my idea of life here: a large, although very old, black and white television. Because the world I made, he was served a show might have held, on the contrary, it had only served to destroy it. I had traveled to get here and experiment with what “new” to see not what I know already, and I was quickly diverted my gaze. could be

The House in the “road” means a hammock between two stilts was below what was obviously a ground floor and one of them was kept in suspension were leaves a pig, the pet or dinner was, during the steam rose from a dilapidated furnace resting on the porch behind her.

vertically rising way out in the field of municipal and agricultural products, village cassava, the two most important sources of support other than the flows. The road then disappeared into the rain forest.

The Amazon rain forest itself, the largest tropical forest had the highlands of Guiana in the north, the central Brazilian plateau in the south, the Atlantic Ocean in the east and the Cordillera Andes in the west of the village “court” and in the catchment of Amazon and its tributaries, over four million square miles in nine countries: Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. It covers 40 percent of Brazil. Its existence is the result of the high stability of temperature, humidity and precipitation.

The tropical forest that covers more than two-thirds of the Amazon, is an extension of the dry forests and savannah in the north and south and the mountain forest to the west, in the Andes. The dense vegetation and form closed canopies several levels, which reach all only ten percent of the sunlight to prevent the floor and extend up to 150 feet from other plants between these levels and areas are supported. His extensive flora includes an average of more than 250 species of trees per hectare typical of rosewood, mahogany, rubber tree, and Brazil nuts.

Several million species of insects, birds and other creatures, some untouched by science, including alligators, anacondas, boas, manatees, river dolphins, piranhas, electric eels, catfish and turtles of the world’s largest, the 150-pound yellow sideneck tip, the only other habitat in Madagascar. terrestrial mammals such as jaguar, tapir, sloths, deer and monkeys.

Of the 16 million people inhabit the Basin, more than half live in rural areas such as Boca da Valeria, bordering the river, the lifeline of their supplies of food, water, soil for planting and transport.

Reaching the end of the village’s main artery, which had been covered with grass and trees in a pile structure size overgrown, I realized that my time and temporary chain culture was broken suddenly as if a car was suddenly a wall collided smooth balance showed that the coffee-colored water as the “Amazon” will support the skyscraper known, balcony-lined metropolis named Royal Princess. The wind that was my feelings more than anything else, my initial feelings of loneliness, innocence, simplicity and lack of materiality, to my mind, the ease of cleavage to install glass. The floating city is, in a few hours, take me away from the simplicity of both the geographic and emotional, the last somehow promoted spirituality, and I return to the physical well-being and wealth, where all my desires, needs, desires, and would immediately meet be. I looked down and felt shame and disappointment in me.

A village residents, visitors on his boat, invited me to his house where I had learned later met his wife. Large, steep, wooden staircase leads to an outdoor balcony just as important. His “inside” is divided into two rooms. The kitchen and the bedroom

communicating with his wife in Spanish, Portuguese, who replied, I learned that the kitchen stocked really well on those visits to other houses in the village center, a picnic table with a cloth covered a wide range of suspension aluminum pots and pans, and archaic, but functional, stove burning match the place had been the small kitchen, with the most outside the inner because of the warmth of the wood structure, despite the fact that all the windows had paneless been.

The size of the room significantly, receiving fresh air, cross ventilation at night from the river because of its diametrically opposite windows and doors (which no windows or a true folding wall that it covers), presents an almost like a double bed home and a hammock. But the function, the most striking and somewhat out of place in this primitive village, where the game seemed not seem to belong on the list of necessary survival activities such as fishing, plants and food, was the bookcase.

“Wow, look at all these books!” I told the villagers in Spanish. “Why do you want?” I wanted to know.

“I am the teacher of the village,” he said back in Portuguese, which the school house on the street, and that somehow it seemed appropriate that someone would be this high, which had served as key role models, a have the biggest houses. This man was the village chief and the link to enlightenment.

We have a lot of time spent examining the books, each for a different category, and printed in Portuguese, and is divided into subjects such as reading, mathematics and language. There was even a section for Spanish vocabulary.

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again on the rocks and dirt-stained red from the tender pier, I had some surprisingly found that the cruise ship should be visible from this point of view, had disappeared, not because I unconsciously or psychologically, it had clears me in my efforts to complete my picture of the primitive reality, but because flash flood that Amazon had a feature-visibility made, and while its non-existence, and the country had in a number of variable size transforms lakes.

start village in the offer, I always thought that the high proportion of children to adults, children, if they belonged to this village or any other in the world, that hope had been to the future, however, was during the experiment Now in the hands of the search of gifts and money from me and all the other passengers as well kept as if the ship was a periodic multi-annual Santa Claus. Visit

What people were the inhabitants of the river the same basic features and characteristics in common that the rest of us: identity, personality, talents, hopes for his contribution to the world, hopes, dreams and the achievement of the tracks in the mud, when they reached the end of their life course. Their village had supplied raw, primitive, insert called wood constructions houses that had their families; marketless, eating together for the maintenance of river and land to get to a school at home, share ideas, grow and progress, church services and connect with their higher powers and role models of parents, teachers and priests to lead, inspire and be inspired, just proves that despite the geographical differentiation and diversity of life that we all come from the same source ‘. / P>

I the village teacher was a bit over a week, if not monthly salary in Boca da Valeria-if, indeed, he had had to pay for it, but justified because a investment in education.

Somewhere along the line when the process of transition to modernity and materialism would be irreversible, I would look for a new Boca da Valeria. When traveling, I would have to learn to like to and enriched by it. When traveling, I would once again responsible for the inevitable change.

Princess Royal to be operated slowly retracted hydraulic ramp from the shipping offer on deck 3, overlooking the village and “riberinhos bones” gradually reduced until the heavy iron door closed order with a bang!

I hope you never lose what you learned today, I thought …

Barbecue lunch served outdoors by the pool that afternoon, a cheeseburger, salad had taken German potato, fresh fruit and a blueberry pie.

shrink the coverage and reeling from its moorings, turned to the Princess Royal to starboard at 1400 with a first section 020-degree shows blue and white puffy cumulus mountains, parallel to the shore of a green deep rust-red southern Amazon and from the forest frozen the houses on stilts in the amount of Boca da Valeria behind the geographical location in time. Not a soul, adult or child can somehow suddenly as empty and desolate village, as if the ship had permeated life and the passengers had taken up soon after their short break.

almost silently streamed subtract six knots, the ship used in the state of Amazonas in its industry in the short Parintins.

Moving during the pre-dawn crawl glimmering water surface silver in a barely perceptible to 1625, anchored the vessel off the island Tupinambarana, the location of Parintins before its riverboats docked and distinguished by its two prominent church towers.

Dinner was in the Sterling Steak House that night, a specialty restaurant, eating only open by appointment on the starboard side of deck 10, which was also rich, with dark wood paneling and a bar and covered the Merlot wine, a salad of grilled artichokes, asparagus, roasted peppers, avocado, shaved Parmesan and balsamic vinaigrette, grape, a cake with lobster mousse Mediterranean tarragon, olives and grilled asparagus, filet mignon A baked potato with sour cream and chives, creamed mushrooms and roasted, a chocolate seven-layer cake with strawberry s’mores, marshmallows and chocolate sauce;. and coffee

The Princess Royal was in Parintins overnight at anchor.

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The sky a blanket knitted most of pink, white, gray and silver in 0600 have had.

Parintins hides from its starboard side was located on the island and Tupinambarana was founded in 1793 during the colonial expansion of the Amazon.

Tupinambarana the island itself is one of the greatest band in the world of the river islands which had been created when the river had deposited rocks, mud and sediments of the Andean highlands. Today, the island chain 200-mile-long is abundant with beaches, forests and banana plantations.

known for the Boi Bumba, Brazil hosts the second largest festival after Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, the city of 35,000 in the bull Bumbódromo stage shaped head during the annual event, the end of June instead of trying to relate to Africa – and rooted in European history, an ox, hard work being robbed and killed by a farmer wanted to take his pregnant wife for beef tongue, but then revived by Jean-Baptiste

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Two teams, red and blue or Garantido or Caprichoso try Tells the story of the colorful costumes, dances, songs, richly decorated floats and fireworks, and a secret team of judges chose the winners selected. support team will be colored red or blue people dress on the street and even specify the color of the can of Coca Cola. Parintins is the only place in the world right, Coca-Cola in the two blue boxes and red bottle.

Transport of the capital, the flow of ships and the tricycle.

A hearty breakfast buffet served in the Panorama, had included pork, ricotta and spinach cannelloni with cheese sauce, Mediterranean vegetables and fresh fruits.

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white cloud, the sky above the Amazon rain forest, exhibited a slight rain in the air has run hot and humid in the late morning, but an ominous dark gray cover on the river in 1300 , all of which prevents the sunlight reaching the ground stretched.

The transition from the stationary anchored, had been a ship sailing boat almost imperceptibly because of his night, the middle of the river location, had no Kai seen with the lower reference. Instead, the engine itself was inaudible, forward into the flow of money to a five-knot surface smoothness on a 243-degree n thrown to 1340, until the waves were fanned apart their sides, as he began his last sector in Manaus.

mixed feelings were inevitably overwhelmed me. The cruise, when combined with the many previous trips and on land, road and rail and air, had all parts of the trip made my life. In it, I sailed the Atlantic, the Caribbean and the Amazon, had connected had explored North and South American continents, St. Barthelemy, St. Lucia, Barbados, the island of French Guiana devil and four ports along the Amazon in Brazil was very enriching for me culturally, had learned a lot, had many unforgettable, once in an unforgettable experience had met many different people, had fun, has broadened my horizons considerably and had checked me and my purpose in life after this. Common equipment, the experience of a number of trips that you made news and articles.

Positive emotions in this sea area has certainly modified many and all-encompassing. However, had some sadness at the same time looking at the end of my journey filtered, too. The further investigation of this sadness has indicated that his heart was empty, yet filled a gap.

When I landed the last time that had many achievements that it belongs unambiguously and, thus inducing sadness and concern that the vacuum is no longer to be fulfilled by him. But I wonder if this gap somehow trying to get me to the fact that I have taken even more of the road while I had taken, perhaps the reduction in the “incomplete” empty alert.

The vacuum does not seem to turn the opportunities, but those who do not understand.