Hotel Veneza Manaus
Travel Blogs from Manaus
Weird couchsurfing experience and one night of joy
... and if you would see him you most likely would start laughing about his appearance. So he started the typical small talk. A couple of meters behind him there was a Spanish guy following him. Williams told me that he is a "couchsurfer" and the spanish guy, called Aitor is surfing his place right now and he is showing him the city. So we drank a juice together and talked and since the French couple already left and I had to check out the hostel as well and didn't know where ...
The amazon and jungle adventure
... was absolutely beautiful. After breakfast we went out and visited a local family and their house and farm. It was really interesting to see how they lived and the self sustained lifestyle they had. Back to Manaus, a free port (tax free) so we managed to quickly buy another point and shoot camera to get us by the rest of the trip. We had a lovely dinner with our new friends made on the tour and then settled in for the wait for our 3am flight to rio de ...
I never in my wildest dreams thought I travel here
... floor, railings and every nook and cranny, ranging from the size of Ladybirds to some two inches long, Unfortunately there’s so many of them especially on the floors that they get trodden on and the staff have to keep sweeping them up. But it’s the moths which are the show stoppers, absolutely amazing, every colour, shade, pattern, and size you can imagine; many are wider than the span of ...
Amazonia! Brazil!
... continents and regions of the tropics. As a
result, Manaus lost its monopoly and from then on the city slowly
lost its wealth and began to resort to other arenas of income.
Some of these arenas of income include
the current deforestation of the rain forest from livestock
production (the largest cause of deforestation, cough cough vegan)
and logging to agriculture to name a few. As a result of many of
these industries, many native peoples of the Amazon ...
Enfin arrivé
... choisi le fruit cupuaçu, c'est dans la même famille que les arbres de cacao, c'était délicioux. Par la suite, j'ai pris quelques bierre avec un couple d'Autrichiens de mon âge. Nous avons pris le mê'me vol aujouurd'hui et on s'est croissé sur la terrasse. C'était drôle car le gars travaille pour une compagnie d'hydroélectricité en Autriche et blonde s'appelle Sophie aussi.
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