Brazilië: Manaus - Belém

After having spent only three days in Manaus and having slept on plastic matresses for three nights, it was now time to leave for Belém, at least hoping for better beds. This would be our next stop on the way back to Fortaleza. Same story as for the trip to Manaus, from Manaus to Belém, the only available transport was by boat. This time it would even be a 4 days' trip. The result, just as our previous boat trip: Spending some quality time in a very relaxed way and breathing the best quality air possible.

After we had arrived at Belém we immediately bought the bus tickets for our trip to Fortaleza. All in all we only had two hours to spend in Belém. Because we were still quite exausted from the boat trip, we decided to spend those two hours just in an internet cafe.
The trip that we finally made to Fortaleza was one of the worst, maybe even the worst, ever! Kids crying all day and all night long, just horrible, impossible to sleep in. Plus the fact that the bus had a terrible delay. Maybe it was all symbolic for approaching the end of the trip, of having to leave for Holland again. Anyway.... once we arrived in Fortaleza, we spent there a week or so to acclimatise a little bit from all the hardcore travelling we had done. And finally, on Wednesday the 26th of April all the wonderful times had unfortunately come to a defenitive end and we left Fortaleza, Brazil and South-Amerika...... but for ever?

See below for some of the ultime pictures taken during our boat trip from Manaus to Belém:



The middle deck of our boat: Our bedrooms




Just after departure, we had the opportunity
to see 'O encontro das águas', the place where
the rivers 'Rio Negro' and the 'Rio Amazonas'
come together, with their obviously different
colours




Wow, this sky didn't promise any good!




Just leaving from one of our stops




O yes, ofcourse there were trees in the Amazone...




Night fall on the Amazone river




After being on the water for hours and hours,
suddenly lokals with their houses and boats




'Bobos' in the bush, without bobos




Another congregation of lokal citizens at the river




Amazone family in a relatively big house,
even equipped with satellite




Yep, we also saw this...




Perfectly smooth water surface, always
millions of trees at both sides, beautiful
sky and its impressive cloud pattern




So piecefully it was, forcing everyone to silence




After being on the boat for days with just water
and trees, suddenly something looking
like houses




Houston, we have something like a city: 'Belém'




Houses of Belém built on water




Another view over part of the city, as seen
from the water