Sao Luis to Santarem... boats, drums, dance, 10,000 views of an Instagram reel, indigenous benches, language, and not getting locked in a toilet!
I AM IN AMAZONIA!!!! Today it’s 12 th May – Mother’s Day... I’m on a fast boat (ie 2 days not 6 days) from Manaus to Tabatinga, and have just been given a sweet little ‘mother’s day’ presentation pack by the staff. And although I’m publishing this blog mid May, I think I’m going to do two or three entries covering the month since my last entry because there’s been a lot going on. This one will take us up to arriving in Santarem... then there’ll be one covering three days in Altamira... and another about Santarem. Alter da Chao and Manaus. And hopefully I’ll manage to get them all done soon. Long boat journeys are great places to get blogs done. My problem as I’ve written before is that I’d far rather be doing something active – visiting another exhibition, meeting another person, chatting to new strangers – than sitting still writing. But here is a perfect situation – speeding down the Solimoes river to Tabatinga with nothing else I can possibly do except drink th
