The night did not bring any surprises, the morning did; just after sunrise we approached Belem and the activities on board became very quickly very hectic. One hammock after the other disappeared and all passengers were packing up their stuff. I had the time to watch each one; I knew that I would have to ...

Santarem had been half the way from Manaus to Belem and during the night, we had passed Almerim and were heading now towards the island of Marajo and the delta of the Amazon River. Incredible fact that one small river arm of the River Amazon, one single small river arm in this huge delta had ...

My neighbor had forgotten her education rather quickly again and had pushed me, had hit me and had woken me up twice on her way to the bathroom. Being awake though I did not miss the arrival in Santarem at midnight, our port for the next 12 hours, leaving the ship allowed. The Amazon Star ...