Century Apart Service Hotel Manaus

... port wall by the floating harbor that shows the different river levels in different years. The highest to date is in 2009.<br><br>We also disembarked our boat into what was described as canoes to visit a marshy swamp off the main river. These motorized little craft just about managed to navigate their way through the shallow waters left at the end of the dry season to get to a local 'camp&#8217; where the buildings were constructed on large trunks of trees chopped ...

... dos gajos aqui...) e aprendi que o meu nome para eles era "Quatzec Mascal Cannabis" ou algo assim... (des)interessante, e mais um acto de generosidade para com a pobre moça que se dedicava a isto, que outra coisa qualquer... Nota 1, e é muito graças aos filmes que fiz na cabeça enquanto ela falava.<br><br>Bem, eu nem estava com vontade de escrever, fui bastante específico até aqui, não?!<br>Avante então camaradas, há mais colheita...<br><br>Cali.... uuuhhhhuuuuhhh.... soube a paragem ...

... go by, pink dolphin spotting, cards, chess, reading, snoozing, dancing on the top deck (Brazilians like their music pumped out at top volume, although they did also find some gringo classics) and bacardi. The incredible heat and humidity necessitated multiple showers per day, in water pumped directly out of the river. Not for the hygiene-nervous. After a while, settled into boat life: breakfast at 6am (dry crackers. sweet coffee), lunch at 11 (meat. beans. pasta ...

... of course this was after we'd confirmed our reservation and submitted payment. <br>As our transport rounded the final bend of the tributary, the view of the main lodge and the individual cabanas, all with teak siding, thatch roofs and tasteful blue trim, ended our worries. With the setting sun providing perfect lighting, the lodge looked like something out of National Geographic Explorer. <br><br>Over the next 3 nights and days, we went on several ...

... eaten, bar none. The skin gets so crispy from the fire, and all the oils, from the different woods, give the chicken an amazing flavour. I fell alseep staring up at the amazingly bright amazon sky, listening to all the interesting sounds of the night. It was definately the best day of the trip, with the exception being that I woke up at several times in the middle of the night, freezing my ass off. Never would have guessed the jungle would get freaking cold, but there ...

... We had a pretty adventuresome afternoon. We decided that we're going to go on a 5 day jungle excursion, and the hostel has a company with an office set up off to the side of the courtyard, so we had a chat with one of the guides, to get an idea of what to expect, and how much it would cost. We decided to go enquire at another reputable agency, for comparison, and to see the Teatros[tea-tchroos] Amazonas(Amazonian Theatre), which is a ...

Amazon Adventure, 28-31JUL (3 nights)<br><br>Day 1 Eco Park Jungle Lodge (D) <br><br>Transfer by river boat from Manaus to lodge Eco Park. You take you a walk in the rainforest to discover and listen to the roar of the monkeys. Just in time for the dusk begins the adventure. With flashlight you go searching caimans and their red eyes at the river bank. <br><br>Day 2 Eco Park Jungle Lodge (B, L, D)<br><br>Early in the morning, just before sunrise, you ...

... far less mosquitoes troubling us. <br><br>Many times on the boat some or all of us would decide to jump into the river to cool off and swim around -- some even went in at night -- but we were quite a distance from the shore and so there was no threat of caimans or anacondas deciding to test how tasty we might be. Eventually on the 4th day we headed back to the lodge for lunch and then all the way back to Manaus the same way we´d arrived. Regrettably Sammie ...

... ADVICE TO BRAZILIANS - leave the steaks to the Argentineans!!! So Tuesday was our last day with A and L, and our last in Manaus, so we decided to go to the zoo, strangely ran in Manaus by the Brazilian army, located next to their jungle training school, they have used all their surplus green camouflage paint to paint the animals cages and enclosures! All the animals in the zoo have been rescued from poachers and are well looked after here. Obviously, there are ...

... to the toilet and thow up again. This went on and on the whole night, with a constant diarrhea and then throwing up 95% of any liquid I tried to put down my throat. I had to try 4 times, just to get to keep some of the water in my body. I was very afraid of that this would maybe be the last day of my life, because I didn't know how to keep the water in my body and there was no doctor in reach for the next hours.<br><br>I was completely powerless when the boat reached Manaus ...