The stretch of river upstream from Manaus, as far as the pivotal frontier with Peru and Colombia at Tabatinga, is known to Brazilians as the Rio Solimões.
There are reasonable facilities for visitors in the border town of Tabatinga and the adjacent Colombian town of Leticia.
Some Brazilian boats will leave you at Benjamin Constant, across the river from Tabatinga, but, if you do have to hang around, then Tabatinga, or the neighbouring Colombian town of Leticia, are the only places with any real facilities.
Smaller than Leticia, TABATINGA is hardly the most exciting place in South America, and many people stuck here waiting for a boat or plane to Manaus or Iquitos prefer to hop over the border to Leticia for the duration of their stay, even if they don't plan on going any further into Colombia.
They leave from both Tabatinga and Benjamin Constante, on the other side of the Amazon, usually starting from the former in the early afternoons (frequently on Wednesdays, but also less regularly on most other days of the week) and calling at the latter an hour or so later.
If there are no boats in Tabatinga, however, it may be worth taking a speedboat ferry ($7; a 30min trip) to Benjamin Constante to see if there are any departing just from there.
I dropped by Tabatinga on the Brazilian side of the border.
Again there is no obvious border markings (and no formalities at all) but one realises that the border is crossed when the signboards suddenly became Portuguese rather than Spanish.
Tabatinga is even more of a cowboy town and fewer buildings.
It was on the evening of the 25th of June that the jangada stopped before Tabatinga, the first Brazilian town situated on the left bank, at the entrance of the river of which it bears the name, and bleonging to the parish of St. Paul, established on the right a little further down stream.
The population of Tabatinga is estimated at four hundred, nearly all Indians, comprising, no doubt, many of those wandering families who are never settled at particular spots on the banks of the Amazon or its smaller tributaries.
Tabatinga is destined to become before long a station of some importance, and will no doubt rapidly develop, for there will stop the Brazilian steamers which ascend the river, and the Peruvian steamers which descend it.
The detachment was at an outpost on the Traíra, 400 kilometers north of the Brazilian Army's Frontier Command headquarters at Tabatinga.
Also located in Tabatinga are logistics and service units, a navy port captain's office, an air force detachment and a large army hospital.
Treatment for food-borne and water-borne illness is common, and a medical team from the army hospital at Tabatinga conducts field trips to attack the underlying causes of cholera outbreaks.
Tabatinga is Brazil's westernmost town on the Amazon River.
Tabatinga's original market, featured in these images, has been demolished and replaced by a more functional concrete building.
Goods for sale include fruits and nuts (Brazil nuts of course!), fish, vegetables, rice, sugar and a host of general goods such as fishing gear, spare parts for marine engines, clothing and household goods.
Tabatinga - a beach in Rio Grande do Norte, south of Natal
Its waters are perfect for fishing, and formations of coral and reefs make for great diving.
On the beaches around Tabatinga are many vacation homes for sale or rent and this is a popular area for local residents being only half hour drive +/- from Natal.
The castaways came to a challenge in which they swam to the bottom of a river and picked a wooden box, in the boxes there were buffs, a blue or orange buff.
The 3 former Tabatinga members were planning on making Coopy vote with them but they had lied to him saying he will get to the final 4.
The 5 remaining Tabatinga members walk into challenge field and stand next to the Domingo 6 members.
Smaller than Leticia, TABATINGA is hardly the most exciting place in South America, and many people stuck here waiting for a boat or plane to Manaus or Iquitos prefer to hop over the border to Leticia for the duration of their stay, even if they don't plan on going any further into Colombia.
They leave from both Tabatinga and Benjamin Constante, on the other side of the Amazon, usually starting from the former in the early afternoons (frequently on Wednesdays, but also less regularly on most other days of the week) and calling at the latter an hour or so later.
If there are no boats in Tabatinga, however, it may be worth taking a speedboat ferry ($7; a 30min trip) to Benjamin Constante to see if there are any departing just from there.
Tabatinga has become so synonymous with illicit drugs that tourists and other international visitors often come through here specifically to find
The historically lax law enforcement along this triple border region, as it is known, also has proven an irresistible temptation to those seeking to ship drugs out.
Tabatinga residents have been arrested in such places as Germany and the Netherlands after trying to take cocaine over those borders, and Brazilian police say they
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Having set my mind to 7 days of an Amazonian diet, cold showers and absolute bordem afloat on the Amazon with little chance of setting foot on dry land throughout the journey...
this speed probably picked up a notch or two (literally!) in the last day and the last leg to Tabatinga when most the cargo had been offloaded.
Another interesting fact about this particularly boat is that is the ONLY complete wooden boat making the entire journey between Manaus and Tabatinga..
Down river cruises operates from Iquitos, Peru, to Leticia, Colombia and Tabatinga, Brazil departing on Sundays and arriving on Wednesdays.
Wednesday morning, while the ship will remain in Santa Rosa Island, Peru, you will be transferred across the Amazon River to the twin cities of Leticia, Colombia and Tabatinga, Brazil.
Santa Rosa is an island located in the middle of the Amazon River, opposite Leticia and Tabatinga, is the eastern-most tip of Peru.
There, I stayed in the nearby modern town of Foz do Iguaçu and visited the great Iguaçu waterfalls and the huge Itaipu hydro dam, said to be the world's largest (12 000 megawatts).
Primitive Tabatinga and empty, wild Amazonia are so different from the densely populated and developed south that one could think of being in another country were it not for the Portuguese language.
I arrived in Tabatinga at a rather primitive landing but left it from this modern dock on the riverboat "Don Manoel" which was about the same size but not as nice as the "Voyager III" shown here.
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Down river cruises operates from Iquitos, Peru to Leticia, Colombia & Tabatinga, Brazil departing on Sundays and arriving on Wednesdays.
Transfer* to a hotel or airport in Leticia or Tabatinga.
Late morning transfer* from hotel or airport in Leticia or Tabatinga to Santa Rosa Island.