We finally arrived in Manaus at around midnight and caught a very fancy taxi (probably the nicest car we´ve been in in the last six months!) and arrived at our hotel about half an hour later. We picked the hotel, Hotel Continental, from the Lonely Planet as per usual, based on it´s description as ´a good value for Manaus, with amiable staff, big air-con apartamentos, hot showers and a fine breakfast´. Well, the LP let us down this time. The room was skanky, the a/c barely worked, there was definitely no hot water and the mozzies were plentiful. We didn´t
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