Manaus Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Although I boarded the ship at Ft. Lauderdale, I'll only describe the sights along the Amazon -- with the exception of Devil's Island.

Ok, the title of this entry might give you some clue that our plans didn't go quite according to plan. We arrived in Manaus and stayed in a clean, but simple guesthouse in the centre of town. The next morning we headed off to the bus station to buy our tickets to Venezuela, intending to get on a bus up to a port on the north coast which would ta...

Full blown stomach cramps now - can´t decide whats caused it, probably a bit of everything!!! Wehad arrangedwith Bastian & Fernando which Hostel to go to. We daftly walked aheadas they went to check out the boats for Belem. We arrived at thesametimeas they pulled up in a taxi.... Ill, with back ache and roasting we arrived in BAD moods!!! Cheere...

DAY 14 - Flying north to the wonders of the AMAZON jungle and the city of Manaus! Glad to be leaving we paid the expensive taxi fare to the airport begrudgingly and to see the favelas and poverty as we left and the 50 women lining up outside the local prison to see their partners was our last vision of Sao Paulo, well at the time we thought and ...

OCTOBER 21, 2008 MANAUS...DAY TWO Day two found the two of us greased up in a layer of Deet, and a second of Sun Block, standing on the pier waiting for a guide from Amazon Explorers to take us onto the river and into the jungle for the day. I don't mind telling you that we were both very excited about this excursion, after all we had just spent...

OCTOBER 20, 2008 MANAUS, BRASIL...DAY ONE. Deb and I arrived in Manaus at 8:00am, about two hours early, for the first day of a two day stop. Manaus, (man/ouse-stress on the last syllable, rhymes with "a mouse"), is the most interesting city I have ever been to in my travels. It is very European in style and design, but, at the same time very Br...

After a 4 hour flight at a most ungodly hour from Sao Paulo we finally arrived in Manaus. Brazil sure is a huge country crossing 2 time zones because in Manaus we had to change our time by an hour. I was expecting a tiny town but was surprised at the size of the city. It even has it's own opera house which by the way nobody was really interested...

I had never really had a picture in mind of what the jungle - The Amazonas - would look like. I guess my only idea was based on Walt Disney´s ´The Jungle Book` as a place filled with all these exotic animals - not quite! I had also not envisioned been guided through The Amazonos by an Indian Rastafarian from Guiana. He was quite a character, a a...

Described as an experience and a half, it was something I was dreading but in some crazy way getting excited about. It would also be (I kept telling myself) a great local experience to be living, eating and sleeping with the Brazilian people - no chance to go back to the safety of a hotel, hostel or tent. Prepared with hammock, snacks, water and...

Arriving in Manaus was dramatic, not because of the city which is spread out on low bluffs but because it is the meeting of the two Amazon tributaries at an 8km wide junction. The dark River Negro which looked like fizzy cola when the boat churned it up, hits the yellowish River Solimoes, and the two vast currents run together, side by side with...