Boca da Valeria, Brazil
Further west up the Amazon our stop today is Boca Da Valeria. After advancing our clocks 2 hours because of our eastern travel, we went back one hour before reaching this port.
This is nothing more than a little village in the amazon region. We arrived at 8 am, and all aboard is 1 pm. My guess is that if we spent 2 hours on Devil’s Island, we will be here less than 1 hour.
The ship took up a collection of goods to be donated to the people that live here. This tells me that HAL wants to keep this as a port and they are supplying goods to the people to keep them happy.
There were only five things to see in this village. Church, school, refreshments, houses, animals.
We took out time in the morning to get to the tender. There was no hurry here. We got to the tender about 9 and there were already people coming back.
This is one example of the many villages along the amazon. This one is able to capitalize on a cruise ship.
We were back on the ship in a few hours. The Amazon river was definitely on our bucket list. This village not so much.
We had lunch in the Lido and sat out by the pool. The ship was supposed to be underway by 1 but there was a call out for a woman that I guess was not on the ship. We learned later that she broke her ankle in the village and would be going to the hospital in Manaus tomorrow. We were about an hour late leaving. Lots of things to watch out for in the little village. Breaking an ankle would be easy to do.
The evening entertainment were the Zuiderdam (rhymes with cider) singers and dancers. Normally I give this group a 10 but the dancing was clearly a 7 and the singing maybe an 8. All canned music and some canned vocals also.
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