Peter's Travel Blog

Today we arrived in Boca Do Valeria, a small indian village only accessible by tender boat, billed as the genuine Amazonian village experience… which it is.   Boca Do Valeria represents a meeting of cultures; Indian villagers who apparently have very little, being visited by hordes of cruise ship tourists, who apparently have everything. It’s a village with a population...

Talk about miffed!   We were ahead of schedule, and arrived really early to take our place on the quayside at Santarem, the first real stop of our Amazon adventure, only to discover that we’d been beaten to it! Another cruise ship in our place? Outragious!   When the annnouncement came over the PA this morning, the announcer could barely...

Finally, we have arrived. Although; I say ‘finally’, actually, it doesn’t seem to have taken us very long at all, and I think this can be directly attributed to the tireless hard work work of Gareth and his excellent entertainments team.   We were anchored off Macapa when we awoke at about 7:30 this morning. It was always going to...

Word is; there’s snow back home. It’s hard to visualise here, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, only hours away from crossing the equator, sweltering under 35-degrees heat in the middle of the afternoon. It was so hot that extra umbrellas were brought out, to try and keep as many passengers out of the direct heat as possible, so...

Since leaving Mindelo, the going has been steady, and the temperature is steadily rising. On Monday, the Flying fish made their first appearance, skittering away in clouds of silver across the surface of the sea, away from the bow of the ship, sometimes in large groups, occasionally as individuals or in twos and threes. They vary enormously in size and...