For a change we arrived on time at a port! In fact we were a little early and were asked by the pilot to hold station as they were maneuvering a large Costa cruise ship into position in the port. There were actually two large Costa ships with about 3000 passengers each already in the port when we arrived. Later in the afternoon our tour guide told us that the local tv station had done a live broadcast from the area saying that with the three cruise ships in port it added about 9000 people to the area for the day. The tour guide also informed us that our "little" ship had used 7 buses for morning tours and 5 buses for afternoon tours while just one of the Costa ships had used 37 buses for morning tours!
Sailing into the port of Recife
Just after we docked we looked from our balcony and could see one of the huge Costa ships just behind us
Our afternoon tour was a cruise on a catamaran around the islands that make up the city and then a stop at a former prison that has been turned into a craft market with the shops inside the cells. We had an excellent tour guide who had lived in San Diego, California while his father was getting his PHD at UCSD. His English was excellent and he was very enthusiastic.
Our group of passengers were in three of these catamarans
It was high tide and we could not believe our boat was going under this bridge!
We had to duck, but we made it!
It was a very vibrant city with a mix of modern buildings and preserved colonial buildings.
Some of the buildings still reflect the Dutch influence
Inside the old prison
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