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Amazon River Slideshow
Top Hotels in Amazon River
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Park Suites Manaus
73 reviews -
Tropical Manaus
225 reviews -
Taj Mahal Hotel Manaus
33 reviews -
Novotel Manaus
71 reviews
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Comfort Hotel Manaus
14 reviews -
Mercure Apartments Manaus
58 reviews
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Ibis Manaus
54 reviews
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Plaza Hotel Manaus
14 reviews
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Hotel Ana Cassia Manaus
9 reviews -
Lord Hotel Ltda Manaus
19 reviews
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Saint Paul Apart Service Manaus
46 reviews
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Hotel Adrianopolis Apart Service Manaus
5 reviews
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Da Vinci Hotel Manaus
8 reviews
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Century Hotel Apartments Manaus
4 reviews
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Hotel Palace Manaus
3 reviews
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Amazon Eco Park Jungle Lodge Amazon River
76 reviews
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Hotel dez de Julho Manaus
30 reviews
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Hotel Ideal Manaus
8 reviews
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Hotel Monaco Manaus
15 reviews
Amazon River
Travel Blogs from Amazon River, Brazil
Monkeys, Sloths and Snakes
This is a top pick! ... that we met on the Hell Boat. For R80 we went to the meeting of the two waters, where the Rio Negro (the black river) meets Amazon River (which is brown). It's quite a sight. The two rivers don't merge, they flow side by side for something ridiculous ...
Carnaval 2006!
This is a top pick! ... I will celebrate the infamous Carnaval... Brazilian style. Manaus is a huge city plopped right in the middle of the Amazon along the river; complete with high rise buildings and the leftover architecture and opulence from what was once a super wealthy ...
Manaus - Day 83-84
This is a top pick! ... boat journey to find the nearest road! Day 84 - 31/03/09 It's amazing to think I'm in the middle of the Amazon when walking around Manaus. The city looks like any other Brazilian port city except it's 1500km from the Atlantic ocean and it's ...
Amazon Adventure Part 2
This is a top pick! The second leg of my Amazon adventure started with having to hang my hammock on the ´mulheres´ or womens side of the boat. This was interesting, but also eased my mind at having sleazy old men near me. The next 2 days disappeared into a canasta ...
Finding money!
This is a top pick! ... to provide colour and intrigue, nor witches market selling baskets of sweets and llama fetus, in fact the Indian culture of the Amazon doesn’t register in the city at all. There are plenty of cheap clothe shops, more shoe shops than Debbie has ever ...
Amazon Adventure Part 3 - Hammock Sloth
This is a top pick! ... a little overboard (as I tend to when chocolate is concerned) and bought a big egg and a little bunny as well. In Brazil they mostly have big cellophane covered eggs with other chocolates inside. In the shops they hang from hooks from netting suspended ...
AMAZON - FISH TALES
This is a top pick! ... black or green, and the rest of its eye was white as white so as to concentrate its allure. The painted leopard, the Amazon's most-treasured visual, had come after Jerbson before. He and his uncle were once hunting and sleeping out in the jungle, ...
Amazon Adventure Part 1
This is a top pick! From the moment I stepped on board, I was hooked on my riverboat and all the excitement bubbled over into a few crazy moments. Being so excited, I boarded 6 hours before departure to find that my hammock had been moved forward and was now squashed in ...
The Mighty Amazon
This is a top pick! ... , Sven decided to give his Gibraltar VISA debit card a go and it worked, so we were able to get out onto the Amazon for a river ride, which was excellent, and we love pottering around on rivers. So there’s hope that tonight we will be able to get ...
AMAZON - DESCENDING THE RIVER
This is a top pick! (See "Amazon - Climbing the River" and read it backwards, twice as fast, and in a barely telligible Scottish slur like the guy in the hammock next to me used. To simulate boat conditions, read it in the shower. Actually, the rain was falling sideways, ...
Jungle Tripping
This is a top pick! ... speedboat. The first speedboat took us across an area known as Los Encuentros, or the meeting of the waters. The Amazon River officially begins when two other major rivers merge together. The first, the Rio Negro, is a "black" river ...
Another long drive
This is a top pick! ... many things, and even went for a nice hike up the mountain outside of town. We also successfully applied for (and received) Brazil visas without any big issues. So when the group returned from their trek, we were ready for the fun of spending ...
The Jumgle
... where two rivers flow together side by side for couple of kilometers with completely different colors before merging into the amazon river,this because of the different speeds. we arrived to the jungle lodge and were surprised of the conditions. in ...
Amazon Adventure
... it was a free boatride and lunch! Lst 2 days we have visited Fortaleza and now im in Manaus ready to start my Amazon adventure. I have visions of me being like Ray Mears but without the waistline...well not yet! 3 days camping in Jungle and hopefully ...
Manaus
This is a top pick! ... of our tour, and a return to traveling (somewhat) on our own. Although Manaus is set smack in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, it is still a huge (2 million people) and fairly modern city. So after booking a hotel and jungle tour, we ...
5 months
5 Months 2 continents, 5 countries, 7000km. Spinning around the sun. Things are starting to wear. The zipper strings have pulled off. The spine on my beloved diary is peeling. Crumpled, folded, freyed papers fall away, unimportant. But I ...
Where in the jungle are the animals?
... where in the jungle were the animals? Via wooden canoes, we travelled to our jungle lodge along Rio Ubajara, a tributary of the mighty Amazon River. Here we did in fact see the famous pink dolphin, and attempted piranha fishing, but we wanted to get to ...
Dry Land
... , but it's still pretty darn fine! We travel for three days and nights to cover some 1100km total on the way to Manaus, Brazil. I sleep in a hammock. There are two full decks on the river boat, full of hammocks, and one more on top for lounging in. All ...
Pink Dolphins
... ; We spent the last few moments taking pics at the Ariau Towers and then said our final adios to a wonderful and memorable Amazon experience. Boarded the boat and caught a nap in the hammocks. Just before arriving in Manaus we had chilled fresh coconut ...
oi from Manaus, one last time...
... I´m going to the Bosque do Ciencias, a section of the rainforest that has been preserved within the city where I can see manatees, lots of other flora and forna of the amazon rainforest. I´ll buy some more souvenirs to, beside going to Ponta Negra. ...
The "Mother of the Gods"
Big city but not very charming. The Portuguese settled it and gave it its name which means "Mother of the Gods"...kind of an ugly mother in my estimation. The area approaching the city has lots of favelas. George heard that the color of the ...
Election day in Manaus
... Rio Solimoes meet to form the big Rio Amazonas. We took a local bus and chartered a small boat to bring us out on the river. It worked out a lot cheaper than taking a tour from Manaus. The advantages of having a Brazilian with us helping to organise it. ...
My adventure in the AMAZON!
... me. We traveled on our two-story riverboat to the meeting of the waters, where the Rio Negro (the black water) meets the Amazon River (the yellow water). The two bodies of water do not mix because of the acidity in each of them, which was ...
The Boat Trip Belem - Manaus
... arrived on Wednesday morn at 2am but stayed on the boat until 6am when we came to our hostel. We then met a jungle trek guy who helped us book our 3 day jungle trek into the Amazon. Its going to be a slightly different birthday than ...
Shine on you crazy diamond (part 2)
... floating houses, complete with floating shops and floating toilets. Then at the three way border you wander unchecked between Peru, Brazil and Columbia - never quite sure what language to speak or which currency to use. Never quite sure why these ...
Arriving in Amazonas
... t-shirt which I think Eugene wore for 6 days straight!). We hopped on the truck and started the 2 day drive into Brazil. We reached the boarder crossing which was pretty straight forward and spent our first night camping with the truck in the ...
The Second Crossing
... setting and I'm enjoying the thick, warm breeze as the boat heads towards Manaus, more or less the half way point along the amazon river. I'm sinking an icy Brazilian beer (pretty crap) and taking in the jungle views under the blue/pink skyline. some form ...
Amazon
... we took a tour with a couple of people we met along the way and climbed a hill with a lovely view of the rivers. The amazon(and accompaning rivers) remind me more of the Puget Sound(with rainforest of course) than of a river. SO much water and space. ...
Notes from the jungle (from written journal)
... in a hammock covered by a fine mesh mosquito net in a straw roofed tree house by the side of one of the many tributaries of the Amazon river. Gero´s taxi picked me up at 8.30, it was meant to be 8:00 but allow half an hour for the Brazilian concept of ...
7days 6nights - a perpetual journey 1100km upriver
A perperual journey of 1100km up the Amazon River from Manaus to Tabatinga, the border of Brazil. On a boat called the Don Manuel, crammed with 300 locals and 7 tourists, we alternated along each side of the wide, cream colored river, ...