Mercure Apartments Manaus, Manaus

Pink Dolphins

Advantages: Excellent base for a Jungle Adventure
Disadvantages: It's a bit out of the way

interesting, though, seeing the busy port and fish markets, with large menacing birds (vultures perhaps) hanging around for scraps and traveling across the enormous Amazon river, which seems more like an ocean, with the other side out of sight, is something that must be experienced. We ended our trip to Manaus, with a tour of the interesting architecture in the centre. The city of Manaus is a large, sprawling cosmopolitan city, with a busy port. The main attractions for tourists, apart from the jungle surrounding it, are all in the centre, where the huge wealth created by the rubber boom allowed the construction of magnificent French style buildings in the late nineteenth century. The most striking building is the Opera House, built in 1898 which really does demonstrate the amount of money in "the Paris of the Tropics", as it was known, for that ...

AndrewPo 24.08.2008 · Read full review
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Where the Waters Meet

Advantages: better than English summer, better than English food, pink dolphins
Disadvantages: worse than English roads, worse than English queues

In August 2008 I have been in Manuas on the business trip. Not the first place that comes to mind when you say Brazil. All my friends were asking about Copacabana, Rio, Sao Paulo, Maracana... I had to disappoint them and say that I haven't enjoyed those attractions (if I exclude 2 hours wait to check in on the next flight at the Sao Paulo airport). I have to say that I was not so happy knowing that I'll go in the middle of Amazon rainforest, that will spend almost 24h on the way there, that will take quite a few jabs and antimalaria tabs and then spend just a less than a week there without much free time. But since I passed that first obstacle of not so long but very slow queue at the check-in desk in Sao Paulo I have started enjoying Brazil more and more. Manaus is a capital of Amazonia state and most fascinating thing for me was ...

JohnCheese 15.10.2008 · Read full review
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Life in the boiler

Advantages: Amazing history and sights
Disadvantages: Its bloody humid and very poor

Its hot, its humid and its electric. Situated 1000 miles up the Rio Amazonas at the first major split in the river, Manaus is a a teeming city off over 1,000,000 people. There is one road in from Venezuala, the road to the south having been reclaimed by the ever creeping Amazon. Otherwise its boat from Belem 5-7 days or flying, expensive. I lived there for 3 months, on the edge of the city in a slum village. The people were fantastic, although they probably wondered why a 6ft blue eyed cacausian was living there. Bus rides to the city were an adventure themself. Most bus drivers in Manaus are directly related to the late Ayrton Senna and believe me you have'nt lived until you have circumnavigated a roundabout on fewer wheels than is recommended in a bus that had seen better days when Sergent Peppers was released. The city's fish ...

Jasonrow 28.02.2001 · Read full review
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