Ibis Manaus

Flight to Bogota

Got here in the early morning, so I decided to stay up for the whole day, sighseeing, before I got the 4am flight to Bogota. However, around 12 o´clock I realised that I booked my flight for the night that just passed because I was using a 2010 calendar :( I rushed to the airport where I had to pay 90 reais fine to get my flight rebooked for that night ...

Manaus, State of Amazonas, Brazil witek

Amazon Rainforest Adventure Day 3

... was often smoked as a cigar type thing. We ate barbequed grubs buried in coconut seeds, and palm heart from one of the trees. Ceciliano and Herman made us bracelets from the bark of a particular tree, and crowns from the fronds of a type of palm. They also cut us spears from another type of tree. It was brilliant, but by the time we got back we were knackered and hot, and so went for a swim in the river to cool ...

Amazon River, State of Amazonas, Brazil djanderson

Amazon Rainforest Adventure Day 2

... the river system, to a more remote part of the jungle. Once our guides had found somewhere suitable looking we set up camp. After an hour or so we had our hammocks up, covered by mosquito nets, under a palm leaf roof! We ate dinner at dusk surrounded by mosquitos, and headed straight to bed after at only 7pm, after seeing what might have been quite a dangerous snake when we were brushing our teeth!

Once we were in our hammocks, Herman told us some ...

Amazon River, State of Amazonas, Brazil djanderson

do brasiiiiiiilll

... for the first time, and to meet all these people that do this form of traveling so often. i only spent a night here in manaus, and the city is chaotic, but beautiful at the same time. you can tell the city once had tons of money due to the rubber boom that happened here years ago, and now it has turned into a huge city, filled with thousands of markets.

ok well i will write more later, i have to go catch my boat before it takes off.

byeee

Manaus, State of Amazonas, Brazil jpsadventures

LE MEUILLEUR DE L'AMAZONIE-

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Manaus, Estado do Amazonas, Brazil amazoniacomguia

5 Days in the Jungle

... chaps. I had to kick a gigantic toad off of the squat-hole, because he just wouldn't freaking move. We also had a national-anthem show-down. Other than that, I slept reasonably, but I was still pretty cold, since I hadn't brought pants. It wasn't a great day, 'nough said.



01/08/09

Da y 3 was a turn-around day for me, as my fever had subsided, and my stomach was doing better. I'm still experiencing some waves of dizzyness, but by day 3, they had ...

Manaus, State of Amazonas, Brazil ryanflemington

Deep in the Amazon

... went out in the motor boat searching for wildlife or to visit the lake and return late spot lighting. The spotlighting was great fun. The Caimans eyes in the spot light were like city lights as there were so many in the water, all glowing a bright menacing orange. We also came so close to the Caimans that as they rolled away they set the boat rocking. That and with fish jumping in our boat it kept us all alert. We visited a couple of research stations; firstly the Boto research centre, the ...

Mamiraua Reserve, State of Amazonas, Brazil gareth.alanna

Mamiraua, 20-24 October 2008

... living in the thatched roofs of our floating bungalows! - mainly bats, we discovered. The one thing which did not mke a lot of noise was the caimans (crocodiles) - lots of them around us! There is a wide variety of activities arranged - all accompanied by experienced, excellent and helpful guides. The main ones are walks of 3-4 hours in the jungle and rather pleasant canoe trips (rowed by the guide) and actually quite good for spotting ...

Tefe, State of Amazonas, Brazil aandl

My dream of 20 years

... and Kingsley even managed to get close enough to take a look. Feeling better, having managed lunch and having been bitten by numerous mosquitos; I decided that I should take another malaria tablet. We then set off for an afternoon canoe trip. We had a wonderful time. We saw two sloths. The first was climbing (quickly I must note) but up into the canopy after some food) and the second with baby in tow was in plain site and looked down at us with wise old eyes. We also saw ...

Juma Lake, State of Amazonas, Brazil kingsandems

The Life in a Hammock

... besides a couple of women, who laughed at me and saved me from total embarrassment.

This time I was sailing on Rio Madeira or "Wood River". Once this trip was over, I had cruised 6 different rivers in South America:

• Río Beni
• Río Yacuma
• Río Mamoré
• Río Madeira
• Río Amazonas
• Río Negro

…. and I think this will be it for my riverway adventures. From now on I will just use buses, planes, bikes and my two ...

Manaus, State of Amazonas, Brazil thrudur