Mike and I were really ecited about breakfast. We were promised a buffet style one and it was a pretty nice hotel so we got our hopes up of some decent food. What a surprise we were wrong. It was cake and pineapple for breakfast along with some dodgy coffee!!! We found out that the opera house had a free show on this evening but mike had chucked away his only shirt and so we spent the morning shopping for clothes. We finally found him a polo shirt (that he hasnt ...

We woke up and were very excited that our boat was due to dock in Manaus today. The lunch was rubbish and I was starving pretty much all day. Finally the boat arrived in port at about 5pm and we joined the guys we had met on the boat to try and find a hostel. Suddenly it hit us that the price of everything is super high in Brazil and because manaus is in the middle of the jungle it is double anywhere else. With my budget seriously running low I started to worry s...

18th AugAfter a pretty good nights sleep. I ignore all the commotion the morning brings and sleep in til 10.30am. I think mike is ready to kill me as he just cant sleep and watching me being able to sleep so easily is very annoying! I went and had a shower, which is actually the highlight of my day as it is the one time when I am actually not overheating! I decide to ignore the fact that I am showering in river water, over the most disgusting and smelly toilet yo...

17th Aug Well after not eating the previous day, I was hoping for the usual roll for breakfast but was very mistaken. So when they started serving lunch at 10.30am we jumped into the que. When a boat has to feed over 200 people you would think they would make it buffet style so you dish up and then leave but no this is brazil! They let about 15 people sit down to eat and once they have finished about 15mins later they clear up and let the net lot in. We qued for ...

16th AugWe woke up dretched in sweat as it was so hot and decided to head out and try and find some breakfast. The only problem was that all they sold in this place was street food so our options were chicken and rice or chicken and rice even at 10am in the morning. I ended up just drinking a yoghurt drink instead. After packing up our stuff we had to carry it on a 15 minute walk in the midday heat down to the port. We managed to find our hammocks from the day be...