Paritins

Parintins is known for it’s folklore festival. The town put on a special showing of the show as an optional shore excursion. It was quite expensive to go, so we chose to walk around instead.

The hieroglyphic moth is quite small, about an inch long, the Urania was about 3 1/2 inches wide.

The local high school kids seemed to have the day off from school, as we saw many of them around town. Several came up to us and practiced their English with us. When the second one did it, we figured out it was an assignment from their teacher. I wonder if school was out just because the ship was there, or if many of the kids were in the festival performance. The second one we talked to had excellent pronunciation, and just a few grammar issues, mostly word order.

The ship got permission from the city officials to “anchor” quite close to the dock for at least the initial offloading. They also hired a few local boats to tender to the dock. This made getting off and back on the ship much better than our previous ports. The ship didn’t actually drop the anchor, the captain just set the autopilot to hold position and it sailed at about 3 mph, staying in roughly the same spot. The ship ended up being able to stay close the whole day.

The water depth on the river varies quite a bit, the ship had 80 meters of water under it here.

This Ani posed on this low, exposed branch for a number of people to walk up and photograph it.

Walking around we stumbled on this artwork on the back side of a warehouse.

Another option was to take a bike taxi tour. We didn’t do that but they came riding by while we walked around.

The pink Amazon River dolphins, locally known as a boto were between the dock and ship as we came back to the ship. It’s really hard to get a good photo of one, as the river is really muddy and they don’t spend much time on the surface, generally about one second. In about 30 minutes of trying this is the best one I got.