Today we are at Parintines which is a 200 year old community with a population of just over 100,000 people. This community has a rich indigenous legacy. Each year this history is celebrated in the much
anticipated "Boi Bumba" Festival. A colorful event that is heralded as "Rio's Carnival".
This morning we stayed on board and then ate an early lunch and boarded our tender for Parintins. It's
another very hot day but nice on the water. In order to get on the Pier we debarked our tender onto another larger boat, and to get to it we had to climb about 5 or 6 steps. Then through that boat unto the pier. There were some Sea Cadets all spiffied up in
their white uniforms helping to direct us where to go.
We walked up the street to the cruise Terminal and through it to another street. Here there were people with stands set up selling all kinds
of wooden art's and craft's as well as jewellery, feather headdresses, masks and much more. After checking out this area we waited to attend the Boi Bumba Show. The Boi Bumba is a popular and well known comic ; dramatic dance. originating in local folklore;
recalling the death and resurrection of a landowner's valued Ox.🙂
This show was very dramatic and energetic not to mention
the loudness of the drums and chant. Bob noted that they had beaten those drums for three quarters of an hour without stopping. That stop was really only a pause and then the theme changed a bit along with the drumming.
It sure was colorful with lots
of different costumes and props. If you ever come up the Amazon this is a must see.. The show was great and that word doesn't do it justice.
After the show was over we got to dance with the performers and also to try on a few headdresses and talk
to those who spoke English. I will post some beautiful costume and prop photo's when i can.
After dinner this evening we attended the show "Limelight" featuring the entertainers of the Prinsendam. We had thought this afternoons show was loud;
it didn't come close to the loudness of this show tonight. Why the technicians can't get the sound right is a mystery, it was so loud that you couldn't even make out some of the words they were singing.
Bob & I both covered our ears at times. The
ceiling is fairly low for a theater and that only compounded the sound problem. We have come to the conclusion that it's not that they think all seniors are deaf; but it's because they have already ruined their hearing with their loud music that they listen
to. It would have been a good show if not for the sound.
We are "party animals" again tonight. NOT.