Although we were up by 8 this morning our plans for the day were postponed by the annoying lack of information about anything on the internet and it wasn't until after midday that we eventually left the hostel. It was hot and muggy today, about 33 degrees, so the bus that we managed to catch, much to our surprise given the chaotic system of random flagging down, was a bit on the warm side. A helpful passenger told us when to get off as the bus assistant (whose j...

We were up nice and early and quickly packed our day bags with the few things we had been told we would need for the jungle trip and then went out once more to get the remainder of the money we owed the company. This time we succeeded in finding a working machine slightly closer to the hostel and were soon back at the hostel where I went about paying and loading our things in the taxi while Mae went to a little stand up the road to get us some breakfast. She retu...

We woke up in time for the breakfast bell and found lots going on around us as people were up and about already getting their stuff ready for our arrival in Manaus. After our usual breakfast we joined them and re-packed our bags once more then chatted with our friends until we pulled in to the docks. It was completely different to any of the other places we had stopped at along they way, they had been rustic little shanty towns whereas this was a proper commercia...