Manaus Zoo

After a 4 hour flight at a most ungodly hour from Sao Paulo we finally arrived in Manaus. Brazil sure is a huge country crossing 2 time zones because in Manaus we had to change our time by an hour. I was expecting a tiny town but was surprised at the ...

... days and wanted to go to a place called Alter do Chão anyway, so I bought a ticket to Santarém - about halfway to Manaus.   I had met a couple of more brasileiros who rode the same bus as me to Belém and we were working on similar ...

... is located on the river Amazon, in the centre of the Amazon rainforest, and remains unconnected to the southeat of Brazil  by road, the only ways to reach Manaus is either by boat from Belem, or by flying (not cheaply) a one-way 2 hour flight ...

... to try to cool down in the 40+ degree heat whilst we planned our journey to take us over the boarder into Venezuala. Manaus itself is an incredible sprawling concrete metropolis in the middle of the Amazon rainforest but you really wouldn´t know it. It ...

... I came back that evening and watched the concert, which I was surprised at how much I enjoyed. Clearly Im getting old. Manaus is a strange city. From 1890-1920 the Amazonian rubber industry boomed. People in Manaus became incredibly wealthy ...

... situation. That evening we went for a really nice and cheap meal in the main square, Graham wanted to go for his last beer in Brazil but for some reason decided not to bother so we went to bed looking forward to our early morning walk to the bus stop in ...

... From now on I will just use buses, planes, bikes and my two feet. I can't say this boat trip, from Porto Velho to Manaus in Brazil, was as comfortable as the one on Río Mamoré from Trinidad to Guayaramerín in Bolivia. This time I had to share my space ...

... didn't do anything in particular in Manaus we saw lots and loved it!  We did change hostels, we are now in Hostel Manaus, which is a Hostel International place and a lot better - it has people, personality and sunlight!  However, it is really, ...

... the concrete sleeping compartments as it was daytime and they are mainly nocturnal. Just as we were at the farthest part of the zoo the tropical rainstorm that had been threatening started and we were drenched in seconds. At least it is warm rain and by ...

... of Manaus as a boom city, because of this need for rubber. Eduardo Ribeiro the state governor, who from 1892 transformed Manaus into a major city. Whole streets were wiped out in the process of laying down broad Parisian-style avenues, interspersed with ...