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By Amazon Sea and Soul: Part 2

Eleven days

They transcend the boundary between Muddy Waters Amazon and Rio Tapajos' clear under a clear blue, early-morning sky, the Royal Princess was docked at a port in the Temporary Terminal in Santarem Brazil to 0846 in two-degree 24-minute north latitude and 54-degree, 44-minute middle west instead of many smaller river boats, north-face because, zero-degree heading.

Brown water, such as Amazon, flows through sedimentary rocks, and therefore make large amount of sediment in them, while so-called black water, such as Rio Tapajos alone flow over the crystalline rock and sanitation heavily-wooded area. Due to their different density, temperature and acid mix resisted for many miles and is just finally caused turbulence.

Founded In 1661, Santarem, which is located almost half-way between the two main Amazonian cities of Belem and Manaus at the confluence of the Amazon River and 15-mile-wide Rio Tapajos, the basin is the third largest - the capital city with 265,000 inhabitants and serves as a gateway into their deepest heart.

In 1927, Henry Ford received 43,000 square miles of rain forest, 50,000 acres approved it, and planted three million rubber trees, construction Capital Fordlandia "to facilitate and serve massive plantation, but the 17-year interval and 20 million U.S. dollars issued only result failure, and he sold the land in Brazil for small money to $ 250,000.

Santarem population, repeating that the Yukon in the late-1800s, exploded overnight from the 1958 discovery of gold in vein Itaituba, 60 mile trip on the Rio Tapajos, serving as the gateway for thousands of gold diggers, who traveled both rivers and air.

Eleven years later, in 1969, completion of a road connecting the city of Cuiaba to motorway network Brazil for the first time, even though the river still serves as the main artery. Small vessels arrive in the early-morning, to sell fresh -caught catfish, piranhas, and picaruru, among other species, while the boats floating over the role buses for transportation between cities throughout the Amazon day and night, adding floating petrol stations.

Santarem is a major manufacturer of hammocks that offer numerous advantages over mattresses: they are cool, cheap and portable, and even for use on overnight trips riverboat, while mattresses are themselves hot and easy to mold.

manioc nearby farm, which is located on the road to Alter de Chao and operated by peasant families, many chat display thatched home fruit, medicinal plants, applications, rubber logging, and production of manioc flour.

Cutting the outer bark of rubber tree produces red wound as if bleeding, and it slowly coagulated into a white, elastic latex, which is then extracted.

Manioc flour, which is nutritious kernel in the Amazon basin, is processed human-powered saw, which reduces toxic cassava root. It is then squeezed the liquid into the ground flour, and toasted before being loaded into bags for transport market. The operation takes place entirely outside the crude, thatched roof.

When the sun is still in pastel sky Archeda River toward west to 1700, life in the Amazon port of Santarem began to end: three-decked, open-sided boat, the way the connection between civilization pocket lining, he long ago left for their daily schedules, while the car, backed into a deep beneath towering steamer Princess Royal, received its shipment of products. The green areas leading toward the city, taking the horizontally-pointed green velvet, while the river Tapajos gleamed silver-mirror. The river was a lifeline Amazonian communities', the same way myself, I have observed in so-far small, Part two-day cruise on the River.

Watch this brief intervals. The river bank was used to define a boat trip, dimensional restrictions, which left very little choice if it wanted to safely reach their destination. But what defined his path, and to what targets would lead?

Twilight brushed watercolor orange sky over the Amazon rain forest in the west, which still run on light-blue stripes and grow to refractionary glow, rendering the cloud sculptures and silver gray, and Amazon dark, quiet, metal surface. That in turn would facilitate the surface of the vessel lift and move the dark, while citizens of the Amazon harness that for their lives when sun reappeared following a day.

Excellent dinner in the Club restaurant in the evening featured a white zinfandel wine, Feuillet of eggplant with roasted garlic and goat cheese Velouté, barley cream soup with ham hocks, turkey steak in Roquefort cream sauce served with spiced pumpkin stew, and red bliss potatoes Austrian Sacher Torta with café latte ice cream and coffee.

S slipped its berth in 1827, Royal Princess now closed 280-degree heading west and delicate, 12-node tempo, 2200th Plying the Amazon River, the ship-lit, coffee-and-milk, he looked like a solid shade of snow, during which her hull slalomed, gradually closed the gap between Santarem and Boca da Valeria.

Twelve days

Slender orange strip pierced the eastern horizon in 0540, penetrating the wavy, silver formations, which stretched towards higher-tropopause as the pinnacle of the mountain harbinger of more-saturated humid day in the Amazon. Continuing on wood at ten knots, the ship tracked 243-degree heading.

Enshrined in the morning 0723 with six silver stirrups, royal princess to stop the movement in two-degree 27-minute north latitude and 56-degree, 27-minutes west longitude coordinate.

Following the extension of the ship-hydraulically operated Offer food onto the board 3, a few small, wooden canoes, barely large enough community support for families and children, and so immersed in the muddy Amazon, that the water has been together with their side and had to be constantly picked up back, fought out on a monster line look, gawk, touch and "civilization", lifestyle unknown, and is therefore something like alien visitor to the country. Although ship passengers had eagerly awaited taste of the local way of life, the first meeting indicated that they considered experience every bit of each other and if not for their benign curiosity, they themselves could be seen as "invaders".

Located at the confluence of the Amazon and Rio da Valeria River, Boca da Valeria, translating as "Valeria mouth of the river," is representative thousands of small, isolated communities in the Amazon basin, where the basic, almost-primitive "os riberinhos," or "river people "live from the river and rain forest in a dozen wooden houses supported on stilts, 75 people attend one of school and church and sharing a common agricultural and cassava producing areas. It is possible that no action be considered the "real Brazil."

Covering the short distance from the Royal Princess in the middle of the shore water-umbrella, pink dolphins, my offer has penetrated thick, swampy, molasses base with dual-loop, bypassing the two river boats from approaching wooden, stilt-supported houses and thatched huts marking Boca da Valeria "pocket of humanity", which could also be regarded as "pocket (detention) time." The river population was "at home". That was all he knew. We brought our preconceived "ideas" houses that were anything We knew. Nor was the same, or even remotely close. Maybe I find some elements of commonality between the two during my visit.

As I stepped on a small, wooden, floating dock, itself little more than a floating ship, I heard the words: "Welcome in the jungle! "-the last and only in English, bringing the dirt path that led to crowds of villagers and native children, and quickly realized that we shared the same desire to learn about and experience different lifestyles others. I had this process serves as a "bridge" between my world and theirs.

Dirt path led past the rows of thatched-roof stands, which could be considered the village market, and showing their local, hand-made crafts, economic activity focused for tourists in the communal village. Business process, purchasing, sales and profit for them is entirely new.

stucco "Escola Municipal Sao Francisco "or" City of St. Francis College, "with yellow and blue outside and wooden shuttered windows devoid Glass, featured spartan interior of the chairs and tables, balls and boards, over which hung a placard with mathematical examples divided into four functions, such as "adicao," or "extra" and "multiplicaco," or "multiplication", among others. One-room school had clearly served as a community's core, or heart, and channels for knowledge, and pride and the University of were evenly divided here and proves homework and drawings hung on the back wall, human emotions, which exceeds from my hometown in the United States on this small village in the Amazon.

Followed and surrounded by crowds of children, as I looked class and frantically taking notes, I realized their interest and curiosity, but not in my interest or activity, but Instead, the perceived, I brought them gifts and took the bag hanging from my hand. That all of us, as tourists, potentially implemented unknown objects to them from the modern world in the primitive jungle poking intensified their curiosity, but that they just curious and wanted to know if I've brought something for them was no different than when I was a little kid that looked into the bag carrying the visiting relative, and perhaps asked: "Do you have something there for me?

village is only "street" stood before me, rocky, dirt road lined with several wooden stilt-supported structures as "home", each with a miniature ship like the one that I met the ship for fishing and short-distance transport, immersed in the brown water behind them. We apparently the idea of a village "car in every garage", even though these "Cars" was the needs of their lifestyle.

One of the local women, invited me to her house. Door locks, police stations have been replaced with confidence here, or perhaps to the inverse in my company. Greed and materialism, can be much more comfortable life, but these "primitive" people kept their merits and the connection with God, whose performance seemed to exclude the need for these luxuries, until they were face to face temptation. It is sad that we, as tourists, claimed that.

The house, accessible by three oil planks serving such steps and is divided into three rooms, he smelled a lack of: kitchen with something more than a table, living room with one seat, a bedroom, only identifiable as a wall-hanging hammocks, but a piece of modern civilization, it seemed grossly out-of-place, assault my eyes and ears and marred what had become my mental picture of life here: a large, albeit very outdated, black-and-white television. Because the world I come from, it could serve as a welcomed sight, instead, it had only served to spoil it. I had traveled here to experience, learn what was "new", not to see what I have already known, and I quickly moved my eyes.

home through the "street" sported a hammock suspended between two stilts down what was probably the main floor and one of them was on a leash pig, which would be a family pet or dinner while steaming from dilapidated stove resting on the porch outside the him.

Perpendicular, inclining road leading into the village communal fields and cassava production economy, the two principle sources of food than river itself. Path disappeared into the rain forest.

Amazon rain forest itself, the largest tropical rain forest surrounded by Guiana Highlands in the north, Brazil's central plateau to the south Atlantic Ocean on the east and mountains in the Andes to the west, the village "backyard" and takes up the Amazon River and its tributaries, which cover four million square miles in nine countries: Brazil, French Guyana, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. Blankets that 40 percent of Brazil itself. Its existence is the result high, stable temperature, humidity and rainfall.

rain forest, which includes more than two-thirds-in Amazon basin, is an extension of dry forest and savannah in the north and south and mountain forest in the west of the Andes. In dense vegetation, which are more-closed canopies at a level that prevents all but ten percent of the sun's rays to reach the ground and extend upwards of 150 meters, support for multiple products, including levels than the earth itself. Extensive flora, on average More than 250 trees per acre typically includes rosewood, mahogany, rubber tree, and Brazil nuts.

Several million species of insects, birds and other forms of life, some still unrecorded by science, including alligators, anacondas, boa constrictors, manatees, freshwater dolphins, piranhas, electric eels, catfish, and the world's largest freshwater turtle, 150 pounds-yellow-headed sideneck, the only other post is Madagascar. Inland aquatic mammals include jaguar, the tapir, sloth, deer, and monkeys.

Of the 16 million people who inhabit the basin, more than half live in rural settlements, such as Boca da Valeria, along River, which provides his lifeline to food, water, land for cultivation and transport.

Approaches the end of the village's main thoroughfare, which was overgrown with grass and some sported a large stilt structure, I realized that my temporary time and culture curriculum was suddenly shattered, as if a smooth-driving a car suddenly crashed into a brick wall in the settlement was found color of the coffee-water experience known as "Amazon" to promote high-rise, balcony-lined metropolis for the princess. The fragmenting related to emotion rather than anything else, my feelings of loneliness primitive innocence, simplicity and lack of significance in which you want to connect Soul cracks ease of glass. Floating capital, which in the scant few hours, take me away, away from both geographical location and emotional simplicity, the latter of which somehow preserved spirituality, and return to my physical comfort and fullness, where all my wishes, needs a desire to be fulfilled immediately. I looked down and felt overwhelming shame and disappointment in myself.

villager visited his boat, he invited me to his house, where I met my future wife. Large, steep wooden staircase leading to equally large outdoor balcony. The "inside" was divided into two rooms: the kitchen and bedroom.

Communications in Spanish with his wife, who replied in Portuguese, I learned that in the kitchen, definitely i-provisioned of those visited in other homes in the village center, the picnic table-cloth, a large range of hanging aluminum pots and pans, and outdated, but still-functional match-lit oven, was the location of a small cooking most out of it, because reached the internal heat in the wooden structure, despite the fact that all the windows were paneless.

-Very large bedroom taking cool, cross-ventilation in the night wind from the river because of its diametrically-opposed windows and doors (neither of which is glass or actual hinged cover it), amounted to nearly-as-home double bed and a hammock. But the feature that seemed most and somewhat out-of-place in this primitive village, where the reading did not seem to belong to the list of the necessary rescue operations, as fishing, cultivation, and ate, it was a shelf with books.

"Wow, look at all those books!" I had called for a villager in Spanish. "Why did not you?" I had wanted to know.

"I am a teacher village school," returned in Portuguese, which shows the school house on the road, and it somehow seemed appropriate that a person of such importance, which served as the main model, should one of the biggest houses. This man was the village leader and a reference to enlightenment.

We spent much time examining lesson books, each applicable to different degrees and printed in Portuguese, and divided into the matter such as reading, mathematics and language. There were even a chapter on the Spanish dictionary.

During the later, the return walk through rock and red-colored dirt on offer pier, I had some surprisingly found that the cruise ship, which should be clearly visible from this place, disappeared-not because I was unconscious or mentally destroyed it in my memory in my effort to complete their primitive image reality, but because Amazon-feature flash flood rendered visible, and everyone in it, a nonentity, and the country was transformed into a series various-sized lakes.

Pulled away from the village in the menu, I always thought the high proportion of children to adults, children, I belonged to this village, or else in the world, the future hope, but who, after the experience, immediately reached out his hand looking for gifts and money from me and all the other passengers as if a cruise ship is represented as a regular, multi-annual Santa Claus visit.

As people, river people to share the same basic features and characteristics as the rest of us: identity, personality, talent, hoping-for contribution to the world, hopes, dreams and achieve the final abandonment of tracks in the mud when they arrived at the end of their life paths. Their village, provided the raw, primitive, wooden structures called houses, which were joined by their families; marketless, shared meals, to make a living from the river and land, the school house in which to learn, share ideas, grow and advance the church to again and worship their increased power and role of parents, teachers and priests to lead, inspire and emulate, fully prove that despite the geographical location of differentiation and the diversity of lifestyles that we all come from the same source.

Still, I continue to focus on those outstretched hands and could not refrain from wondering if we were visiting tourists, who gave freely and taught them to expect free, and somehow started to deteriorate and ruin their primitive, pure, innocent, non-materialist pockets of time. But I somehow knew that we ...

I I gave myself a village teacher tip more than a week, if not monthly salary in Boca da Valeria, if indeed there to some-where salaries were justified as investments in education.

Somewhere down the line when the conversion process into modern time and materialism are not refundable, I will have to find new Boca da Valeria. I would travel there again to learn from and be enriched by it. I travel there also again be partly responsible for the inevitable change.

Princesses slowly retracted his hydraulic-control boarding ramp to board the 3 views of the village and "os riberinhos" gradually decreased in size and heavy iron plates closed decided to bang!

I hope that it will never lose what you taught me today, I thought ...

Barbecue lunch outside by the pool, which was part of the afternoon cheese burger, German potato salad, fresh fruit and blueberry pie.

Winding and reeling its bid in its anchor, The Princess Royal turned to starboard at 1400 to 020-first level under the heading famous blue and white flowing cumulous Mountains, paralleling the deep-green and rust-red South Amazon river and leaving wooden, stilt-supported housing for Boca da Valeria, geographical location frozen in time. No the human soul, or adult child, you could see the village somehow suddenly uninhabited and desolate, as if the ship passengers had infusion with life and was quickly withdrawn after a short break there.

Almost silently sailing away on a six-node slack, vessel registered in the state of Amazonas his short Parintins sector.

Moving in the pre-twilight, silver-glistening water area the barely perceptible crawl in 1625, the ship moored in Tupinambarana Island, the location Parintins, opposite the anchored boats and characterized by two prominent church tower.

Dinner was eaten in the Sterling Steakhouse that evening, special, reservations-only dining space on the right side Deck 10, which featured a rich, dark wood paneling and bar, and contained Merlot wine, salad with grilled artichokes, asparagus, roasted peppers, avocado, shaved parmesan cheese and grape-balsamic dressing, Mediterranean lobster cake with tarragon foam, cured olives, asparagus and grilled filet mignon, baked potato with sour cream and chives, creamy spinach and roasted mushrooms, seven-layer chocolate cake s'mors with strawberries, marshmallows and chocolate and coffee.

Royal Princess remained at anchor in Parintins all night.

Day Thirteen

The sky had a spare blanket knitted from pink, white, gray, and silver the 0600th

Parintins, lurking on the right side of the ship were placed on Tupinambarana island and was founded in 1793 during the colonial expansion in the Amazon.

Tupinambarana The island itself is part of the largest group of river islands that were created when the river deposited rock, mud and sediment from the Andes Highlands. Today, 200-kilometer-long island is rich with chain beaches, forests, and banana plantation.

Known Boi Bumba, Brazil's second most important folklore festival after Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, the City hosts 35,000 in the bull's head-shaped Bumbodromo Stadium during the annual event, held at the end of June, seeks to retell the African - and European roots-story hard-working bull that stole it and killed the farmer to meet his pregnant wife taste for beef language, but is later brought back to life by John the Baptist.

Two teams, red, or Garantido, and blue, or Caprichos, an attempt to retell the story in the most spectacular way, with costumes, dances, songs, richly decorated - floats and fireworks, and the team secretly-selected judges selects the winners. Support team is marked by red or blue people dress, street, and even the color can of Coca Cola. Parintins is the only place in the world authorized to bottle Coca-Cola in both blue and red cans.

Cities predominant means of transport are boats and tricycles.

Rich lunch, served in the Panorama Buffet, contained pork cutlet, ricotta and spinach cannelloni with cheese sauce, Mediterranean vegetables and fresh fruit.

White cloud tendrils twisting the skies over the Amazon rainforest, the emitted light, prickly rain in the hot, humid air throughout the late morning, but ominous, dark-gray cap again stretched itself across the river from the year 1300, affecting all sunlight reach the ground.

The transition from the movement, anchored vessel sailing ship appeared almost imperceptible: Thanks to its one-day, mid-river site, no drop dock was visible, with which to provide references. Instead, its engines, to hear it is assumed forward in a silver-surfaced on the river five-knot glide the 243-degree to the number 1340 to the waves ran of its sides, it began its latest sector to Manaus.

He had mixed feelings, inevitably, I feel. Voyage in combination with a number of previous trips to the country by road and rail and air, had all represented a sub-part of my life journey. In During this one, I sailed the Atlantic, Caribbean, and the Amazon, was connected North and South American continents, explored Bathelemy St, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Devil's Island in French Guiana, and four ports-of-call after the Amazon in Brazil; substantially enriched themselves culturally, learned much, had numerous, memorable, once-in-a-lifetime experience, I met countless, diverse people, amused, be extended their horizons, and had re-examined me and my life purpose as a result of it. Collectively, the experience provided material for a number of related travel-logs and objects.

positive emotions at this last sector of the sea is of course a lot and all-encompassing. Yet rates of sadness, consistent with the contemplation of the termination of my journey had just filtered through. Further examination of grief, said that her core was empty, void not occupied.

When I get off the ship for the final time, many fulfillments provided that clearly ends, thus causing both sadness to it, and the emptiness she has fillable. Still, I wonder if the emptiness somehow trying to alert me that I could take more out of the way, when I committed, perhaps by reducing the "incomplete" invalid.

Emptiness does not seem to revolve round opportunities, but you no avail. Each person's earthly time is limited and every moment that ticks, and thus does not apply to a person, regardless of value is lost forever and can not be again. Time, a very physical dimension of existence, is set on the ground and can be deposited into a bank account for later withdrawal the contract with interest. When he runs for each of us, that the depletion is forever.

Pelted rain, the Royal Princess negotiated green velvet islands and land spots Amazon, which is veering around to them, but continue to move towards a release, horizon-draperies, sources of steel wool in her head.

When I emerge from this journey, I hope I have the time and uses opportunity to the fullest extent that they are fully satisfied him. When I emerge from my life's journey, I just I hope that I have used their time and opportunity to the fullest extent that they are fully satisfied it.

Realization is the first step to change.

evening dinner, served in the Club Restaurant, contained a white zinfandel wine; Tian crabs, steak, and shrimp with caviar duo and papaya sauce, zucchini and William pear soup served with poppy seed, Belgian chicory, Boston lettuce, cherry tomatoes and blue cheese dressing, rockfish, and the creamy potato leek chowder with truffle oil chocolate ice cream with pineapple, Petit Fours and coffee.

Orange stripes pronikl gray stripes on the western horizon shortly after 1800, as the Royal Princess again to penetrate dusk.

Fourteen days

Creep along the blue waters of the river Rio Negro in the seven-knot speed of the light-blue morning sky with white clouds patterned lights, Princess Royal took 217-degree the number 0830, is now four miles southeast of Manaus, capital of Amazonas state and its final port-of-call.

Thoughts on the end of the trip, or pleasant, enriching journey, inevitably turned to sadness. During the two-week cruise, which began in the State of Florida, the North American continent, and ended up in the State of Amazonas, on the South American continent, the ship was my home-away-from-home and became new, albeit temporary, way of life for me, with a daily routine, daily activities, restaurants, night-time entertainment, interesting locations are shown in front of my "door", and both crew and passengers, I started to know who and I began bonds, in what really brings all the necessary elements of a floating city, and it was not easy to leave this chapter, and its players, rear, never reload.

People, more than any other element, provided that the basic connection to it all spirits, with whom I was associated as a collective whole, and go through them now would be equal to a breach of the whole, after leaving the newly-created widespread, and more-encompassing part of me, and I again reducing the unique individual, which left a huge emptiness. It's not a feeling, though on an infinitely larger scale, I had when I was separated from the above the first place and descended to the ground?

Significant buffet breakfast at Panorama include pink grapefruit, scrambled eggs with asparagus, grilled tomatoes, grits with cream cheese, rolls and croissants, cranberry juice and lemon.

Tanning in right turn, significantly closer to the ship-sized skyscrapers, architectural monoliths man seen more than a week, in 0915, as the plane banked to the right to randomly talk to their final approach to Manaus, which served as converging place known as civilization. Laterally maneuvering himself into his berth to starboard or three levels, 08-minute South, under-the-equator, the southern hemisphere - and 60-degree, 01-minute West longitude coordinate is appendaged itself, 20 minutes later, the boarding ramp of the dock, where the noise of the city attacked the ears like sharp arrows, side, almost-unknown break after the break spent on the primitive villages along the Amazon. I had already hungry to return to them.

Unfolding from the Indian village built around Sao Jose da Barra fort built in 1669 to protect against the Dutch invaders from present-day Suriname, Manaus, the first sign was "Barra de Sao Jose do Rio Negro," is located 993 miles west of Belem, and 475 kilometers west of Santarem on the Rio Negro and is the capital of Amazonas state with a population of 1.8 million.

Rio Negro, Amazon is the largest River, provides one-fifth of the total discharge of 292,000-square-mile basin. Its darker, warmer, sediment-free meet water mud-laden water from the Amazon in Manaus, which has resulted in a different blue-brown border between the two, which started, disappear, and finally reached a point several miles downstream.

Expanding the villa in 1832 in a small town In 1856, the city renamed the Manaus region to celebrate the most important ethnic groups, Mina Indians, became the first to use electricity, rainy sewer, water, sewerage and electric streetcar service. Characterized by its European architectural profile of the middle of germination jungle, it was widely molded rubber boom, whose wealth was raised 20 years, the influx of European architects between 1890 and 1910.

Rubber boom itself controlled by around 100 rubber barons recruited and employed a candle from both Brazilian cities and tribes, and plantations, produce 90 percent of world rubber, netted huge sums of wealth to facilitate ostentatious structure. Nirvana quarter-century, however, ended when Malaysia began to take on Brazil's monopoly as a result of 70,000 rubber tree seeds, which were smuggled out of the country Englishman Henry A. Wickham, who then germinated in Kew Gardens in England before the return journey must be to the Far East.

One of the opulent, rubber boom-era buildings, Amazonas Theater, remains to this day. Inaugurated 31st December 1896, when administered Filato Pires Ferreira on top of the economic cycle, rubber, neoclassical opera house, one by the likes of Enrico Caruso, 701 seats in the audience and the box and sports seats, green, blue, yellow and the dome of 36,000 enamelled ceramic and stone tiles from Alsace. Its 300-person lobby, supported by 16 columns rising from his marble floor, leads to a real theater hall, the audience, a red velvet box tri-stabilized places are surrounded by the French lower iron columns, Corinthian-styled columns of the upper, 22 Greek-style masks, chandeliers, ceiling and painted to resemble the base of the Eiffel Tower.

Top Noble Hall, which has a capacity of 200, features interlocking floor 12.000, unadhesived walnut, oak, maple, mahogany and pieces, 16 cast-iron columns, 32 Murano glass chandeliers, and ceiling with Domenico de Angels painting called "glorification of Fine Arts in Amazonia."

Rubber boom led to a decrease in the doldrums until 1967, Manaus, which has been declared duty-free zone, and is now the equator is the largest commercial and industrial sectors, whose 80,000 employees produce vast quantities of electronics. The city is the largest camp in South America, the motorcycle factory.

Elegent, cruise-appropriate denouement afternoon tea, served in the Club Restaurant at the Princess In 1600, contained a delicate smoked salmon, scones with cream and jam, pumpkin triangles, and multi-layer cakes moka, and was two hours after landfall Dinner sauvignon from Cabarnet, seafood avocado in lime-cilantro dressing, grilled vegetables with chives and the heart of romaine lettuce with cheese dressing, freshwater Barramundi in garam masala, with aromatic rice, beans and carrots, chocolate mud pie with ice cream rum raisin and coffee.

Twilight lit the western horizon glowing orange, provides a clear background canvas for smoky gray cloud formation, which bottom were spotlighted during the sun rose last moments on this side of the day.

Day Fifteen

Since the shuttle bus across the bridge spanned the Rio Negro-ship passenger terminal in the hot, clear morning, I looked the Royal Princess, "vehicle" which allowed me to navigate my way from origin to destination, and which have now firmly embedded in a dense, firm anchoring lines for the final time and thought that no matter where one starts with physical travel, but where and how it ends-like statements that could be said about life's journey. As I was extremely enriched in this process, they increased enormously.

I went back to some day? Am I?

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While others try to imitate it we innovate it. Endura C2 is the legendary performer that's built to explorebuilt to last and backed up with our two-year warranty. It's the ultimate ing together of form andfunction in a package that puts you on the water day after day year after year like no other.FeaturesLEVER LOCK BRACKET.Our Lever Lock Bracket delivers a rock-solid mount that's stronger than con...