Manaus Hotels - Reviews and Rates

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 think I have just enough cash to get me through tomorrow. I still have a ziplock bag full of...

After conquering Roraima we had 2 nights to chill out at Santa Elena to recouperate and clean our stenchy clothes (one 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 th...

Landing in Manaus was incredible. I had no idea before just how many rivers are flowing together there, nor many of the amazing statistics we were constantly told about the Amazon over the next week or so.

We spent a few days in the city here which was also surprising with 2 millon people living in a huge place in the middle of the jungl...

The expectations were, after seeing some footage and photos and blogs of an uneventful trip that would get us from a to b but we would have an experience on the amazon, a place i wouldnt likely be in the future.....this probably all changed the minute i got talking to joao from sao paolo and roberta from curitiba...we didnt know it then but this...

Day 4 - in the morning we flew from Manaus to Porto Velho, the capital of the state of Rondonia. - once there we got on a cab to Guajará-Mirim, the brazilian city bordering the Bolivian city Guayaramerin. - around 17:00 we were already in Guajará-Mirim. We checked in at Pousada Alfa and spent some time getting to know the city. Quite picturesque...

The first thing that struck me about Manaus is that it had an oil refinery and Panamax container ships, 10x10x40 containers, and the cranes to move them. Manaus is a deep-water shipping port 1000 miles from the ocean. The St. Lawrence Seaway allows the same with the cities on the Great Lakes, but only through engineering dozens of locks. There a...