Our next port in Brazil was Belem at the mouth of the Amazon.  We had to tender to this city but it is not small.  The skyline has many highrises and again it is another city of contrasts.  Graffiti everywhere and garbage filled the sides of the roads.  The Amazon is brown and the water that pours into the Atlantic ocean turns the ocean brown for two hundred miles out.  I am typing this post  the afternoon of the day after we were there and we are still in brown water.

We took the shuttle into town which was about an hour away so we saw a lot of the outskirts and the city itself.  The shuttle dropped us off at the waterfront and Ver o Peso market which consisted of three large warehouses converted to a mall.  Outside of this area there was a local stall type market but for the most part it was not interesting. 

We did find one thing interesting in the Ver o Peso market.  Yes we had a beer but we also found this beer brewery .