Amazonas Part 2

After 3 days it was time to go back to civilization in Manaus. Quite a contrast it was. We didn't like the city too much. Crowded, dirty, poor, more heat & mosquitos. But we were lucky to stay in a cozy hotel with swimmingpool and AC.
The christmas decoration around the theater & the theater itself was beautiful though.
Our second night in Manaus was short, we had to get up at 1am to catch our flight at 3.30am.
3min after we left the hotel an other car crashed into our taxi at the red light. Fortunately nobody got hurt and we only got a stiff neck and a bit shocked 😅.
When we were ready for boarding suddendly everybody left the gate an no staff was around to ask what was happening. After asking other passengers we finally understood what was going on - all flights cancelled because of maintenance of the landing/starting pist. The first flight was rescheduled after noon.
It was difficult to get information and of course the queue for reschedueling was huge as every passenger had the same problem. At 7am I finally got an acceptable solution for me. At 14.00 flight to Brasília and at 21.00 flight to Porto Alegre. Arriving there only at midnight meant spending the night there as there was no bus to Caxias at this time. Luckily Vini has a friend in Porto where I could sleep and he even went to Caxias the next day 🙂
My parents had to wait even longer in the queue, had to spend the night in São Paulo and got to Salvador next day at noon..
Little sleep, many hours at the airport but in the end we all made it safe to our destination 😌Read more