Novotel - Manaus

... es, trepando montanhas e enchendo os vales, fazendo-nos sentir ainda mais pequeninos perante tal cenário, ou até mesmo a maneira como os inúmeros rios de água que depois de anos de batalha contra a rocha, finalmente sobre a ladeira se deixam cair... Enfim, não querendo ser mais abichanado na descrição da coisa, e parafraseando um amigo meu, "A Colômbia é aquilo que eu pensava que a América do Sul era!" e sim, realmente ele resumiu tudo muito bem!<br><br>Toda esta natureza arrebatadora, as ...

... him with both hands before bringing him back into the boat for us to marvel over. After some education on caiman and a bit of unwanted petting by the tourists, Alan released Alan Jnr back into the river to continue his business. Once we got back to the lodge I spent the whole night hurling my guts up by the river amongst the bats who were out feeding on the mosquitoes.<br><br> My unplanned illness meant that I could not take part in my ...

... I left my luggage in a locker and went back to town to have a look around. About 7pm I battled horrific traffic to get back to the airport where I waited until the 2am boarding time. Once it came, happy that I´m finally going to Colombia, I went to the check in, only to find out that it´s impossible to fly internationally out of Brazil if you don´t ...

... to be honest. will go into details later. but on the first boat i met a good group of people and the ride was great. fortunatly i found a good hammock and that has been my bed for teh past week now. you can only sleep on hammocks on all these river boats, so the ride is very peaceful. at night they put on music and everyone just hangs out, plays cards, and you get to meet a lot of the local travelers. <br><br>this has been an amazing way to enter ...

... another boat. <br><br>As we approached the main section of the river on the lodge's boat, where the ferry boat would eventually pass, we were surprised to see a large river boat passing. It was early and had already passed the small town and Had we been only 5 minutes later, the boat would have<br>passed without us knowing. There was no time to transfer to a lancha. <br><br>The driver of our 25' long aluminum dingy headed directly to the beam of ...

Hoje foi dia de conhecer alguma coisa diferente... fui visitar a Praia da Ponta Negra (no Rio tem uma praia com o mesmo nome)... Lugar bonito... mas como o rio tava cheio nem dava pra ver a faixa de areia... nem podia entrar na água... <br><br>Hoje tambem foi dia de resolver o que fazer... já que não vai mais rolar venezuela... resolvi voar ...

... below.<br><br><br><br>02/08/09<br><br>W e woke up at 5:30 this morning, and hopped in a motor-boat, to go piranha(actually pronounced pee-rah-nya) fishing, and watch the sun come up. It was a gorgeous sun-rise, as was to be expected, and we did pretty well with the piranha, too. Lareina caught 4, though one was too small, and our guide caught 4. I had a ton of bites, but the sneaky *******s would just take my bait and run off. We zoomed our way back to the lodge ...

... nice inlet into the swamped trees until solid ground is found and beach our boat. While the area is completely native and unstructured, our guide had previously used the grounds for past groups and has some cut down trees setup to hang our hammocks and cover them with tarps -- a good thing too as within about 15 minutes of getting it all setup, we had the joy of our first rainfall -- we´re in a rain forest after all. Its relatively powerful, but quick and ...

... reach Tabatinga, costing 340 reais , or 100 pounds, shockingly expensive, given this is for a hammock space, but we later found out this includes all meals for the 6 days journeys, if you pay for a private cabin, it wil cost a lot more. Unfortunately the boat company did not accept cards,. and the only card we had with that day , jons nationwide card, was not being accepted at any of the machines in Manaus, and we must have tried all of them, so we explored a lot of the ...

... boats, something that had not been mentioned when I bought my ticket, but you just gotta shut up and get over it when companies can't keep their word in South America. But I was much less pleased when I found out the boat wouldn't even leave until the next day, but would be docked in Manicoré overnight, where we had to sleep in our hammocks. This overnight stay in Manicoré meant my arrival to Manaus would be on Sunday but not on Saturday. There had been a lot of delays on ...