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By A Travel Story
October 23rd 2009

Swimming the Amazon South America » Brazil » Amazonas » Manaus

Photo 39

We have been in the Brazilian Jungle about 3 hours from Manaus for the last three days. It took two boat rides and two vehicle rides to get here. There is no cell signal or Internet. The only electricity is by generator. We found a guy named Vincente Thomas through Lonely Planet (he was listed under Manaus jungle trekking) and he met us at the airport in Manaus. He delivered us to a floating lodge in the Amazon Jungle. It is low tide season so the Amazon is full of fish and dolphins. They are easy to spot. We went sunset [View Full Entry]

By LauraBlackhall
October 22nd 2009

Jungle Fever South America » Brazil » Amazonas

The Jungle - Taken from the plane on route to Leticia

I am typing this blog with two hands. I typed the last blog with one. Not because I thought it would be funny, or because I lost a bet, or because I like to time myself doing strange tasks but because I had an accident. Actually I've been having quite a few accidents recently. But i´ll get on to that in a bit. On 24th September we flew from Cartagena to Leticia, a teeny weeny town in the far south of Colombia on the boarder with Peru and Brazil. I cant tell you much about Leticia because when we arrived we [View Full Entry]

Leticia Airport - The tiniest airport I have ever been in. This is the ENTIRE arrivals building!

By anne125
October 13th 2009

Arrivee a Manaus South America » Brazil » Amazonas » Manaus

Manaus

Le bateau pour Manaus est finalement parti avec 3 heures et demi de retard... Ce fut 2 jours et demi longs et ennuyeux, pas tres excitant pour feter mon anniversaire!! On est finalement arrive a Manaus le 11 octobre a 22h30, 1 heure de difference avec Santarem, 6 heures avec la France!! On a pris un taxi jusqu´a notre hotel. Le centre de Manaus n´est pas tres sur la nuit, il vaut mieux eviter de trainer, surtout avec un enorme sac a dos! [View Full Entry]

By anne125
October 13th 2009

Manaus South America » Brazil » Amazonas » Manaus

On a prevu de passer 1 jour de demi a Manaus. Il fait tellement chaud ici.. surtout dans l´hotel ou nous logeons, on a pas de fenetre, juste un ventilateur qui est aussi silencieux qu´un helicoptere au decollage.. Le centre est principalement anime grace a tous les etalages dans les rues. On trouve de tout et n´importe quoi, chaussures, vetements, jouets, appareils menagers, des trucs auquels on pense meme pas!! On est alle jusqu´au theatre, puis on fait le musee du caoutchou. Et oui, beacoup on fait fortune grace a l´exploitation des arbres a caoutchou. Depart prevu pour le Venezu [View Full Entry]

By Dave125
October 13th 2009

Manaus - The heart of the Amazon South America » Brazil » Amazonas » Manaus

Our second ship down the Amazon

So our boat to Manaus was a completely different experience to the first time around but again we had to sleep three nights on the boat. Although the first night we were docked and had the boat to ourselves. The captain agreed that we could sleep overnight which saved us finding accomodation for the night. When we woke up after our first night we thought the boat would be crammed with hammocks like previously but to our astonishment only 40 or 50 hammocks went up which left us with plenty of room to swing our hammocks to our hearts content ;) [View Full Entry]

By David on tour
September 22nd 2009

Amazon Days 4-5 South America » Brazil » Amazonas » Manaus

Dawn in the Amazon

What a night!! We had to get into our hammocks as soon as it got dark. Above the sounds of the ever present insect noise, the first things to hear was the frogs. This carried on for a couple of hours and then partway through the night there was strange sound like a hoarse lion. Rubens said that this was a jaguar - this made my night as they are very rare. Then around midnight the howler monkeys started up, they were amazing and were very close at times. In the early hours something came into our camp and started rummaging [View Full Entry]

By David on tour
September 21st 2009

Amazon Days 2 - 3 South America » Brazil » Amazonas » Manaus

Dawn over the Amazon

Manaus Day 2 After a good but hot nights sleep we headed off for a trek through the jungle, the heat was incredible, you just had to step outside and you were covered with a sheen of sweat, as a result there as no point taking a shower - also the showers were full of mosquitoes so it was more trouble than it was worth! The size of Amazonia is mind boggling I was only restricted to one small part and we travelled on Tributaries which were wider than any rivers in England and yet for here they were tiny. And [View Full Entry]

By David on tour
September 12th 2009

Manuas - Amazon Day 1 South America » Brazil » Amazonas » Manaus

Teatro Amazonas

Its that time of year again - holiday time and my next adventure involves travelling round Brazil with a couple of side trips to Paraguay and Argentina thrown in. The main areas I will be visiting are the Amazon rainforest near Manaus, then Iguassu Falls, Rio then chilling out on the tropical Island of Ihla Grande. Not sure how often I will be able to update the blog, if not possible during the trip itself will have to complete retrospectively when I get back. My first destination is Manaus in the heart of the Amazon, to get there I flew with [View Full Entry]

By Matt Y
September 6th 2009

Up the Amazon South America » Brazil » Amazonas » Tefé

Our river boat

We should have first met the Amazon rainforest from the window of our bus on the way from Cuaba the Porto Velho but all we saw was cows! Miles and miles of cows. The road we were travelling along was only paved in the 1980s, the improved access led 350,000 people to flood into the area grabbing land and clearing 20% of the forest in Rondonia state. Next hop was a flight to Manaus - the city at the centre of the Amazon basin. From the plane the enormity of the forest becomes more real: 600km of trees and that’s just [View Full Entry]

By hkwoody
August 29th 2009

The Monkeys Are In The Jungle :-) South America » Brazil » Amazonas » Manaus

River Boat

Manaus has put the smile back on our faces :-) There's not much to do in the city itself but it's pretty cool anyway. All around the city is the reason for being here - the Amazon jungle. We're on a 3 day, 2 night trip, and it's awesome !!! It's interesting as soon as you leave the dock in Manaus, two rivers that come from different directions, are different colours (one is black the other a kind of milky coffee light brown), different temperatures, and flow at different speeds join in front of the city, because they're so different they [View Full Entry]

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