Manaus

I ate some really weird looking fruits that I bought from a vender on the street. One looked like a hairy strawberry adn the other was green on the outside and orange on the inside and tasted a little like pumpkin. I really enjoyed them both. The city is pretty nifty too. :O)

Frontier town, port on the Amazon River, no place like it, well worth seeing, especially the architecture, it is a place of history, rain forests, nature, and the unequaled amazon river. I lived here between the ages of 11 and 13, this is where I became a woman, and almost died of Malaria and Hepatitis (but I survived) deep in the amazon, at the mining camp my adopted mother owned with her partner. Sadly I’ve lost all pictures of when I was here, the only one I have is at the house sitting in the garden, which I’ve added to this post.

Great place, with a beautiful arquitecture. The buildings are old, it’s nice to see time on them.

Manaus is a unique place and you need at least 4 days before you begin your exploring to the Amazon forest. I had a great time there…

Spent four days in this city – the Hotel Tropical is good. Great food in the city – the Opera House; trip down the Amazon are great.

I’ve always been fascinated with this city in the middle of the Amazon. As a little kid, I’d look at it on maps and always want to go there. I know I’d be too chicken nowadays to fly that deep into the forest though.

got a friend there
always thought i have to go there to visit
but wat excites me most abt this place is that its in the middle of the amazon …wow in the heart of nature
n after reading wat all folks havin been there wrote
i really wana be there now being myselt a nature lover

I was born in Manaus. And I have never think about leaving my city someday. I really like this city and I intend to stay here for the rest of my life. (Maybe, in the future, I will make some trips to visit other places but my home still being here!) And it is not that poverty someone said! The city? Yes, It’s a very beautiful place. It’s not a giant city, but it is the biggest one in the north of Brazil. It’s not like São Paulo, but here we have most of things all the cities have. We have a strong industrial district here (which one, fortunetely, respect the nature), called “Zona Franca” here in Brazil.

Ok, but let’s correct some mistakes here… The rain forest isn’t the “world’s lung”. This myth was born of a mistake of a scientist(actually I think he was a journalist). I am with laziness, but you can search about it. It’s something about C02… The guy forgot the C and wrote 02(oxygen). Anyway, rain forest is very important for the Earth’s climate in several other ways. About the “meetings waters”, the truth is that 2 rivers stay together for 2 ou 3 kilometers (I think its more, but.. Ok) not because the temperature, but because of their speed. They come with almost the same speed. This prevents one river of being stronger than the other one, this way, no one can beat the other one at the first moments.

Some drinks I recommend are the juices. “Cupuaçu” juice (my favorite) , “Graviola” juice, “Acerola” juice, etc.
The food, is like the other regions of Brasil.. beans, rice, flour (“farinha”), meat etc. But here we also have a large variety of fishes. Pirarucu, tambaqui, tucunaré, pacu, jaraqui, some of the most common fishes. Our food is very similar to the rest of Brazil, but with its singularities. We have other foods, for breakfast and snacks like “tapioca”, “tucumã” (fruit), tacacá and the world famous “X-caboquinho” (Cheesecaboquinho, lol, bread with tucumã inside, and any other thing like cheese or/and eggs, etc) and other foods I don’t have enough time to say here.

There are other places to visit like the Zoo (CIGS), “Ponta Negra”, “Bosque da ciência”, “Parque do Mindu”, museums, etc.

I think that’s all I had to say…

I love my city!

• I forgot to mention… Sport fishing here can be very entertaining… Other excellent thing to do, if you are coming to visit Amazonas.
• Sorry about the links in portuguese… It’s really hard to find contents in english about this. Anyway, you can try a translation tool. Examples: Google language tools, Babel Fish translation

I won’t repeat what all the others have said, I will just talk about what is not there…

Manaus, despite being a city of several million is a really frontier town full of sailors that you can just picture having bar-room brawls, mixed with a good dose of tourist trade.

I remember having Guarana (not the fizzy drink, of which Antarctica is my favourite brand, but the drink they make from the powder they get from grinding up the root/bean?) at a little stall where you could choose between dozens of flavours – peanuts, lime etc.

I missed the inside of the opera house because it was closed that day, but the outside was very impressive!

It was sad to see how polluted the water was as we left Manaus on our amazon trip, but it’s hard to judge people who are living in poverty on their environmental practices when you are living relatively well off.

I visited Manaus twice in 2005 and absolutely loved it. The house I stayed in was in a natural reserve area and the backyard was home to animals such as toucans, aligators and pacas…I was told there were monkeys but I didn’t see any. Besides all the rainforest and Amazon River tours, the kindness and hospitality of the people here was amazing. And the nightlife was great, too – dancing forro and samba until the early hours of the morning. :)