Post Syndicated from Lennart Poettering original https://0pointer.net/blog/photos/amazon.html

After BOSSA in
Manaus/Brazil we took a very enjoyable boat trip down the Amazon, to
Santarém and particularly Alter do Chão, a ridiculously amazing
island paradise with glaring white sand in the middle of the jungle:

The town is located on the Tapajós River:

Up the river you find the Tapajós National Forest:

From there we went on to São Luís, a beautiful old colonial town:

A windy and wet sailing catamaran ride from São Luís you find Alcântara, another old colonial town, now partly in ruins and deserted: