I think we (Peter and I) really lucked out on our choice of boat from Manaus to Santarem. As it turned out, it took “only” 26 hours for the trip instead of the 36 hours I was told it would take. The boat had a strong motor and on October 6th at 3pm it sailed quickly through the Rio Amazonas. The only problem is that Forro, a Brazilian style of music, was being played almost the whole time, at a very high volume, while people sat on the deck, drank beer and watched cheesy Forro music videos. I knew Brazilians drank a lot of beer, but somehow, the beer culture right on my face, in the North of Brazil kind of shocked me. These ferries are party boats.
The boat was a lot more crowded than the one I took from Tabatinga to Manaus, and the food was almost equally bad, but we had a nice trip overall. We arrived in Santarem at 5pm on October 7th, and twenty minutes later we were on a bus heading towards Alter do Chao, an hour away.
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