Manaus, Brazil Travel Blogs

Still in Manaus
Jul 29, 2006 (8 photos)

Have a busy day ahead of us sorting stuff out before we leave on our 3am flight tomorrow morning (great stuff). Go to Post Office to send some stuff home, bank, repacking our very full bags etc. Then get bus a few kms out of town to INPA which is a ...

Massive city in the middle of the jungle?!
Jul 27, 2006 (9 photos)

Yesterday arrive in Manaus about 10am having driven through lots more jungle. The city is huge especially considering it is literally a port town in the middle of the Amazon. Quite sad really. We drive around and the first thing that hits me is the ...

The booze cruise.
Feb 23, 2005 (16 photos)

I have just arrived in Manaus, Brazil, after spending four days on a boat down the Rio Amazonas. It's my first visit to Brazil, and if I had language problems earlier on this trip, it will probably be nothing compared to the next few weeks. They speak ...

The Death of a ´Stache and Birth of a Script
Jul 4, 2007 (14 photos)

A week ago, I was surfing TSN´s website for new NHL signings (Glen Sather should join Muckler in Shady Pines, by the way) when I noticed something in the ´TSN Broadband` section. ¨No, no, no,¨ I said out loud. Concerned, Sara asked me what was wrong. ¨I ...

Manaus
Sep 18, 2005 (2 photos)

Arrived in Manaus after long bus journey, set off at 900hrs and arrived the next day at 0100hrs! On arrival our hotel was fully booked so they moved us to another hotel, which was a true ´ ...

Jungle Trip
Sep 19, 2005 (5 photos)

We set off for a three day trip into the jungle from Manaus at 0830hrs. After a taxi ride we then took a boat to the point where the Rio Negro and the Amazon met, there was a distinctive line in the water were the black and brown waters met, due to the ...

amazon.compromise
Nov 26, 2005 (3 photos)

... the equator, out of Brazil and into Venezuela. The only problem was that the one land crossing into Venezuela from Brazil originates in a city called Manaus, in the heart of the Amazon jungle, 1500 kilometers inland and upstream from Belém, the city at the ...

Carnaval 2006!
Feb 26, 2006 (24 photos)

I caught up to my friends from Lima here in Manaus Brazil where 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 ...

Up the Amazon by Boat and Barge
Oct 2, 2006 (24 photos)

... the barge today, and go on another boat later in the week." "But we don't want the van sitting around in a compound in Manaus for several days before we arrive" we replied - thinking to ourselves that it would most likely be stripped bare in the meantime - ...

Arrival in Manaus, Brazil
Nov 2, 2004

Manaus, Brazil It is a holiday today in Colombia -- but that is ok as we are about 1/4 of a mile away in Tabatinga, Brazil waiting for our flight to Manaus. Poured all morning -- and the tiny airport (our flight is the only one today) is delayed and ...

Manaus - Day 83-84
Mar 31, 2009 (9 photos)

... visually not that attractive but it does have a certain frontier charm about it, it's cool for some reason. Tomorrow I leave Manaus to embark on a 7 day upstream boat mission to Tabatinga, will be the longest boat journey I've every taken! Especially with ...

Terra Firma
Mar 23, 2005 (2 photos)

... idea to spend a couple of days in the Amazon jungle while we were here! By the time we were only an hour out of Manaus, the heavens opened and we were treated to one of the most spectacular storms I´ve ever seen! Our captain decided that it was unsafe to ...

Manaus
Nov 3, 2004

... America balls up. I´m sure you´ve seen the advert on tv - in most of south america this hand signal means OK, but in brazil it means asshole. So of course when returning the bowls back to the guys selling soup who asked me in Portuguese how the soup was I ...

Manaus or 7 days on the Amazon!
Nov 9, 2004

... I left off, we were ready for our Amazon boat cruise, 4 nights and 4 days cruising up the Amazon River from Belém to Manaus. At 4:30pm we made our way down to the dock and boarded the Amazon Star...a large boat/ship that could carry over 350 people. ...

Gateway to Jungle
Apr 7, 2004 (5 photos)

... was meeting up with his fellow Guern in Manaus. Nathan is an engineer on a big cruise ship that came up the Amazon to Manaus. This ship absolutely dwarfed the little tub I arrived in! I spent a couple of days with them and Nathan´s girlfriend Kerry hanging ...

In the Jungle!!!
Oct 28, 2005

Up the amazon!

The Jumgle
Sep 26, 2009 (19 photos)

... and insects. we did this trip with two amazing German guys and we gonna meet them later in Rio DE Janeiro. when we came back to manaus, we had 13 hours to wait for our flight, so Paula, elso's wife, showed us the city for few hours. it was very interesting ...

Amazon Adventure
May 20, 2008

... was hurt! All i got out of 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 ...

Man its hot in Manaus
Oct 1, 2007 (10 photos)

... our way out of Manaus. We had always planned to take the boat from Manaus to Iquitos in Peru, however, when we arrived in Manaus we realised that the river is about 40km wide and we would have no hope of seeing anything while on the boat. It is also not a ...

Manaus - Der Amazonas-Traum wird wahr!
Feb 11, 2008

...  Ende 19. Jahrhundert wegen des Kautschuks bekannt und erlebte damals einen regelrechten Boom. Heutzutage ist Manaus eher bekannt fuer seine Freihandelszone ("Zona Franca"): die Steuer- und Zollvergünstigungen lockten viele Unternehmen nach ...

Pink Dolphins
Mar 28, 2008 (16 photos)

... 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 water for the last time. Transferred to the airport but had an 8 hour wait before our next ...

The Boat Trip Belem - Manaus
May 22, 2008 (44 photos)

L -15/05/08 until 21/05/08 The boat didn't leave until 8am so we had been sitting on the a moored boat for 14hours, Gabrel found out that there was a problem with the rotor and then the tide had gone out so we were wedged in the sand. The boat was ...

Jungle trek
Mar 5, 2006 (2 photos)

We woke up to a fabulous looking day and the plan was to take a walk through the rainforest around the lodge. We started out on this nice path, but after about 20min, Joseph (our guide) took us off the beaten path and starts bush-wacking (I am serious, he ...

Arriving in Amazonas
Jul 10, 2009 (6 photos)

... 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 ...

On the River Negro
Mar 13, 2007 (4 photos)

... it is literally black (a product of the tannic acids found in the water). We arrived without too much trouble from Manaus, crossing by motor boat. We did have to wait out a local storm, which they seem to have daily here during ...

Manaus - Amazonka in dzungla
Apr 23, 2006

... prevoz. Hotel je bil obupen. Hvala bogu, sva takoj naslednje popoldne sla v dzunglo. Prej sva si ogledala se mesto samo. Sam Manaus je kot velik Trst - ogromno poceni stacun in stantov, ki ti ponujajo vse (ne)mogoce. Precej truda sva morala vloziti, da ...

Wieviel Forró kann ein Mensch ertragen?
Aug 15, 2007 (16 photos)

... wir nach vier Tagen auf dem Boot auch ein wenig traurig, als wir uns von unseren Mitreisenden bei der Ankunft in Manaus verabschieden mussten. Nur Erica ist noch mit uns ins Hotel gekommen. Sie hat uns am nächsten Tag geholfen unser Boot& ...

Deep into the Jungle
Mar 4, 2008 (10 photos)

... , bruises, water vines (whose water tasted very sweet), how to make fans out of the local palm tree leaves, crack open fresh Brazil nuts with a machete and I guess the best highlight of the day was to see a tarantula. Back at camp we set up our hammocks ...

Kikinho goes Colombiano....
Nov 5, 2009 (169 photos)

... aqui estar! E comparando este país com os outros todos em que estive por aqui.... pfff.... pergunto-me porque raio estive eu nos outros! (Brazil... Amor... tu não contas, tá?! Tu estás do outro lado, e és único!) Como é sabido pelo leitor, entrei aqui vindo do ...

WEEK FIFTY THREE, RIVERS, RUM, REMEMBERING!
Mar 20, 2008

... one more night on the boat before heading in to Manaus to a hotel to wait for my credit cards to arrive. The city of Manaus is deep in the Amazon yet it is a modern city with lots of traffic and sky scrappers and concrete slabs of buildings. No ...