Nighttime on the Boat to Manaus

by n1pp3r | May 4, 2008 at 05:22 pm | 78 views | 1 comment | 0 recommendations
Nighttime on the Boat to Manaus by n1pp3r

this is only a small % of the people on the boat, its like 2AM and I got woken up by some people loading giant fish beneath my hammock.

Uploaded by n1pp3r | May 4, 2008 at 05:22 pm | 78 views | 1 comment

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Amazon capsize kills 12 and dozens missing

"At least 12 people have died and more than 40 are missing after a passenger boat capsized on a tributary of the Amazon in Brazil.The accident occurred on the River Solimoes as passengers were returning from a party...
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I rode one of these boats from Leticia, Colombia to Manaus. They carry every kind of person, tourists, merchants, sick and dying people headed to hospitals, missionaries, anybody in the world. They also carry any and every thing in the world, fish, beer, motorcycles, scooters, concrete, aluminum, bananas, mangos, everything imaginable. Nobody was exactly checking the weight or balance of the boat I was on so I suppose this was inevitable.

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Title: Nighttime on the Boat to Manaus
Created: Sun, 05/04/2008 - 5:22pm
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