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Manaus Slideshow
Manaus
Travel Blogs from Manaus, Brazil
5 Days in the Jungle
... some lunch, said our good-byes, and then headed back towards the village we had left from. We took a very crowded public bus back to Manaus, and we arrived at our hostel by about 7pm. It was a massive amount of fun, and I'd do it again in a heart-beat. ...
BRAZIL
BRAZIL Yeah!!!!! Tis gelukt, ik heb een bumpy busride overleefd en ik zit in het Amazonegebied in Brazilie. In Manaus. Morgen ga ik op jungletour voor ...
Amazon adventure
... couple of days. We arrived in Manaus and proceeded to cook as the heat and humidity was amazing!! We spent a couple of nights in Manaus looking into Amazon river/jungle tours and ended up booking through a guy that we met on Ipanema beach in Rio. We ...
Jungle
We just got back from our 3 day jungle tour of the Amazon and I wish we could stay for longer... Absolutely gorgeous everywhere and really sunny every day. On the way we saw the meeting of the waters, where the Rio Negro meets the Rio Solimoes and stay ...
Rosa Delfine
Huhu! Sind jetzt gerade in unserem fröhlich-leuchtenden rosa Hostel in Manaus (unser Zimmer ist das "Rosa Delfinzimmer" und Marc findet das ziemlich schwul). Gerade kalte Kokosnuss getrunken und den Urwaldtrip für die nächsten Tage gebucht: Bötchen ...
Manaus d.3
Dzis Bruno ma szkole, wiec bedzie wolny ok 16:00. Po sniadaniu wraz chlopakami z Austrii szukamy bankomatu, z ktorego mozna wyciagnac pieniadze (nie ze wszystkich oznaczonych VISA/Mastercard itd. jest to mozliwe). Nastepnie udajemy sie do przystani kupic ...
Oh, God! I'm melting!
haha seriously, it's freaking hot here. Even hotter than it was before. I went from the daily highs barely making 25, to the temperature never being below 30 degrees at night. It's almost 40 degrees right now. I managed to get all my shopping done, and I ...
A Little Bit of Brazilian Amazon
... trip.Really hot humid weather. There was a taxi driver holding a paper with my complete name. Alberto was his name, from Hostel Manaus. Good hostel. Friendly staff and simple, cozy accommodations. Like any other hostel. I woke up and the guy of the agency ...
Amazon trip
... with Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira, and other environmental agency officials· Working lunch with Ambassador Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, Brazil’s chief climate change negotiator, for a preview on Brazil’s positions leading into upcoming ...
Day 20
... outside. We saw rubber trees (which originally made Manaus rich until the naughty Brits smuggled some seedlings out of Brazil to Malaysia, which then commercially grew rubber plants, ruining Brazil's world monopoly on rubber). A local villager ...
Washing machine
... will cling film myself to the bed. kind of erotic as well as practical. Anyhow, we are somewhere in the atlantic, somewhere between Brazil and Africa. that some where is a pretty broad area but its all looking the same now, just big waves and salty ...
Sous l'effet de Malarone
L'effet secondaire de Malarone devient de plus en plus sévère, j'ai mal à la tête, j'ai la misère à respirer et je me sens super faible. Si ça continue, je vais devoir arrêter d'en ...
Welcome to the tropics
... 5 am to head back to airport for the one daily flight to Manaus. I had hoped to see the couple of noteworthy sights in Manaus yesterday afternoon, but it turns out to be a city that is completely shut down on Sundays -- especially this particular Sunday, ...
Hammock time and pre-Carnival funtimes
... imagined (having heard a few bad stories, I had low expectations) but the boat was as cramped as I'd heard about. Just before Manaus we saw the 'Mixing of the waters' where you can see the clear dark waters of Rio Negro and the cloudy waters of the ...
Life in the Amazon
Day 12 (noon) Temperature 35 degrees, felt like 43 Weather: sunny, hot and humid ============================= Brazil Tour: Day 8 - Amazon Rainforest As we continued our journey down the Amazon River, a lot more exotic birds could be seen flying ...
Alligator hunting at night in the Amazon!
Day 11 (evening) Temperature: 30 degrees Weather: warm breeze ==================== Brazil Tour: Day 7 - Amazon Rainforest It was dusk when we boarded a small motorized wooden canoe in search of…. you won't believe this.....in ...
Manaus, Brazil
Manaus is the capital of Brazil’s state of Amazonas and is located at the heart of the Amazon forest on the banks of the Rio Negro. The Rio Negro is a large river that blends into the Amazon. A few facts on the waters of the Amazon.... there are ...
The amazon
... really well! We moved on to the next native house where we did some more trecking and got to see a tarantula! The following day we went back to the lodge showered and headed back into Manaus. It was an amazing experience but i think 4 nights was enough! ...
Amazonia Experience
After dreaming about being attacked by Amazonian bugs, it was time to begin the adventure. We find out five minutes prior to boarding the riverboats that we were all split up and had no say in which group we were placed. Normally, I wouldn't complain BUT ...
Meeting of the Rivers in the Amazon!
Day 12 (morning) Temperature: 30 degrees Weather: Grey sky, hot and humid ========================== Brazil Tour: Day 8 – Amazon Rainforest Michel and I had an early buffet style breakfast which comprised of a variety ...
´The Jungle Nook´ - Or, 101 Ways to Skin a Jaguar
... by my current reading choice (Wuthering Heights - not perhaps the most fitting literature for tropical, pumping Brazil - nonetheless, depressing enough to make Manaus seem like a dream). And so, on Thursday, Connie and I were sad to wave goodbye to the ...
Jungle Jarvs does the Amazon
... a fire all by myself. oh... the list goes on and on, so for now, I shall leave it at that. On my return to Manaus I had ten hours to kill before my 3am flight to Iguacu, and I was still feeling a little jungle-ified so I decided to check into a ...
Sloth and Envy
... -when-it-comes-to-travel. Because this might actually be worse than being the "look at me, i'm awesome" guy. When I left Manaus, all of this stupidity was forgotten because I got so excited about going back to Argentina. And back to ...
Aug 15, 2010
Capital of the Amazonas
If Salvador had a personality it would be a sexy afro-Brazillian samba dancer. If Manaus had a personality it would be a stinky hobo who hadn't showered for days. This is a rather dirty and smelly city with rubbish everywhere. Luckily today we leave ...