Parintins

We're  nearing the end of our cruise.  Today  was our penultimate stop:  Parintins.

Parintins  is not a very large town.  It used to be a single  island, but is now 4 separate  islands as the Amazon is still finding its course.  

Today's  excursion  was a Boi Bomba Folkloric dance performance.  It was amazing and  honestly  it was worth coming all the way up the  Amazon just to see this.  

It was incredibly  hot today: 32c or 89f - but felt  even hotter with the humidity.  The performance was indoors  and although  there was supposed to be air conditioning I  don't think it was able to  keep up. I was hot, so I  can't imagine  how  hot the dancers we're.   Not only were they dancing around,  they were carrying  some very heavy  costumes  on their  heads and backs.  To give you  an idea of just how big and  heavy some of these costumes  were here are a couple of photos  of  one of the costumes standing  against the wall and then of the guy wearing it.

After  the performance  we shopped at the market stalls and  I bought a feather  headress of my own.  It's not quite as big as the one from the  show.  

I'm just going to fill out the rest of  today's  entry with more photos of this amazing performance.