Santarem - our final Amazon port.
And today our carpet is back, along with an industrial size blower and dehumidifier in the room, but rather a disgusting smell of drying wool! Hopefully it will pass as drying is more successful. We have accepted a meal in the Sindu and a bottle of wine for Khachik as a courtesy compensatory gift.
Santarem is still 560 miles away from the sea and on the mouth Tapajos river, it emerges into the Amazon on the opposite side of the Amazon to the Negro in Manaus which makes for another stunning two tone meeting of the waters.
We boarded our river journey today straight from the ship via a ship's gangway. Then we went into Maica Lake and its flooded forest to fish with nylon and a wooden block for an hour for piranhas. The river dwellings were very similar to those we'd seen in Manaus. Our guide told us the schoolchildren were picked up by a river bus and transported by the government to school, so that they can all receive a basic education away from home.
On our trip we heard so much about the rare pink dolphins! I didn't see any of these. Others did, especially at the port. Some fellow travellers on the river journey saw them momentarily too. I believe in the pink dolphin though, even though I haven't seen one!
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