Manaus Hotel

... we stay at the JW Marriott. After a number of tours of the city and the surroundings we fly to Brasilia the capitol city that is 50 years old, and stay at the Naoum Plaza Hotel. Here we again tour the area and then head for Manaus for the Amazon tour.

The first thing me and peter did in Manaus (hotel, shower etc. aside) was go to the Teâtro Amazônas to have a look around cos it was meant to be an impressive building - it is. After a brief dispute with the security guard I ascertained that the ...

... and more toilet paper supplied, so we appreciated his presence. There’s not a lot to report on Manaus.  On arrival we booked into the Continental Hotel for two nights and then moved to Hostel Manaus, wi-fi again.  The city is fairly small ...

... kids. A village has roughly 50 people in it. At 2pm back at base it was time for goodbye hugs as I was going back to Manaus. Will hopefully meet up with the 2 girls at Carnival. After numerous van and boat trips I arrived back in Manaus and was met ...

... on a boat from Santarem to Manaus, then 2 and a half days in Manaus. The main pleasure was in the getting there - Manaus itself is pretty grotty! Santarem to Manaus on the good ship Sao Bartolemeu We decided to go hammock class instead of cabin class ...

... local bus and chartered a small boat to bring us out on the river. It worked out a lot cheaper than taking a tour from Manaus. The advantages of having a Brazilian with us helping to organise it. After a lot of difficulties trying to book the boat to ...

Arriving in Manaus marked the official end of our tour, and a return to traveling (somewhat) on our own.  Although Manaus is set smack in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, it is still a huge (2 million people) and fairly modern city.  So ...

$1 = BRL 1.7 ; 1€ = BRL 2.5 Dojezdzamy do Manaus po 11h. Tutaj rowniez czujemy sie calkiem bezpiecznie. Wzbudzamy male zainteresowanie wsrod lokalnych, ale nie wyczuwamy zagrozenia. Na terminalu idziemy na kawe i burgera (ok $R 6/os.) Kawa szybko ...

 After 12 h waiting in Sao Paulo airport we finally got the 3 h flight to Manaus. We stayed in a very basic hotel. We visited Teatro amazonas (barroque theater from the last century). We were suprised how the city has different programs for the ...

... other buildings partially blocking the way) and had our quality coffee, juice, watermelon and obligatory roll with and ham and cheese. Hotel continental hadnīt quite improved in quality overnight but it had a gritty kind of feel to it and I liked it. ...

... moc zaplacic za bilety do Tabatinga. Zalatwiamy to zaraz przed spotkaniem z Bruno, ktory zabiera nas do Punta Negro (plaze w Manaus, na ktora dojechanie autobusem zajelo nam troche czasu). W weekend, a zwlaszcza w niedziele, jest to calkiem tloczne ...

Gevangen in Manaus, vier dagen wachten op een vlucht: ...

... less likely to smell.  They are marginally better, Harry takes an executive decision, we'll take the rooms.   As I wander through the hotel, down the cavernous and deserted corridors I feel like an extra from "The Shining", any minute now a kid on a ...

... do so we walked there through a rain storm which had suddenly appeared.     As you’d expect from a hotel in Manaus, the revolving restaurant was closed this day and only one other day for some sort of renovations. We pretended we ...

... his company which sounded great and negotiated 50% off his first offer. After we booked it we headed out and walked round Central Manaus. Itīs a surpisingly big city - it reminds us a lot of Asian cities and isnīt that nice to look at - quite dirty and ...

... -Training" mit Pfeilrohr-Schiessen, Feuer machen etc. Am naechsten Tag gingīs bald nach dem Fruehstueck zurueck nach Manaus und fuer mich ins selbe Hotel im Zentrum, wo ich noch eine Nacht verbrachte. (In der Lodge blieb ich fuer insgesamt drei ...

... organising our way out of Manaus. We had always planned to take the boat from Manaus to Iquitos in Peru, however, when we arrived in Manaus we realised that the river is about 40km wide and we would have no hope of seeing anything while on the boat. It is ...

... a string quartet in the 1930's. Since we arrived in the mid afternoon we wanted to stay close to the hotel for the afternoon and venture into the town of Manaus the following day. We took a walk along the river beach which turned out to be more of a ...