BRAZIL - Amazon - Manaus
Manaus is the capital city of the state of Amazonas and is situated near the confluence of the Negro and Solimoes rivers in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, and access to the city is primarily by boat or airplane. This isolation helped preserve both the natural environment as well as the culture of the city. The city was founded in 1669 as the Fort of Sao José do Rio Negro. It was elevated to a town in 1832.
The city is the main access point for visiting the fauna and flora of the Brazilian Amazon. Few places in the world afford such a variety of plants, birds, insects, and fishes.
Manaus was known at the beginning of the century, as "Heart of the Amazon" and "City of the Forest" and rubber boom during the late 19th century. For a time, it was "one of the gaudiest cities of the world". The city built a grand opera house, with vast domes and gilded balconies, and using marble, glass, and crystal, from around Europe and many beautiful houses for the rubber "barons".
BEST TIME to VISIT MANAUS
BEST TIME to TRAVEL to BRAZIL
Amazonia : from June to October
View of the vibrant and busy Manaus Harbour - a lot of boats like this are transporting people, food and materials to towns and villages around
View of the vibrant and busy Manaus Harbour
View of the vibrant and busy Manaus Harbour
View of the vibrant and busy Manaus Harbour - Here street food
View of the vibrant and busy Manaus Harbour - a lot of boats like this are transporting people, food and materials to towns and villages around
View of the vibrant and busy Manaus Harbour - small shop
View of the vibrant and busy Manaus Harbour - a lot of boats like these are transporting people, food and materials to towns and villages around
View of the vibrant and busy Manaus Harbour
View of the vibrant and busy Manaus Harbour - a lot of boats like this one are transporting people, food and materials to towns and villages around
Old city with colorful buildings
Old city with colorful buildings
Old city with colorful buildings
Old large "rubber barons" houses
cathedral
Old city with colorful buildings
Old city with an old colorful building
Old city - Ancient abandoned building
Old city - Ancient building
Old city - Now all new buildings are made with concrete
Opera House (Teatro Amazonas)
Opera House (Teatro Amazonas) and an old house
old large house
Opera House (Teatro Amazonas)
old rubber "barons" house
The Meeting of Waters (Encontro das aguas), the mysterious place where the waters of two different-colored rivers meet to form the great Amazon.
Skyline
Skyline
The Meeting of Waters (Encontro das aguas), the mysterious place where the waters of two different-colored rivers meet to form the great Amazon.
boat with a bad and polluting engine
a lot of boats are bringing goods and people from and to Manaus, to others towns and villages
selling fish
Houses on the river bank
Houses on the river bank
Houses on the river bank
Trees on the river bank
Houses on the river bank
Houses on the river bank
Speed boat
a lot of boats are bringing goods and people from and to Manaus, to others towns and villages
speed boat
Large boat coming from overseas thru the large Amazon river
Port of Manaus
Manaus harbour view - a lot of boats are bringing goods and people from and to Manaus, to others towns and villages
bridge at sunset
old yellow building
old red house
the famous opera house
opera house facade
Cathedral
colorful building
a lot of boats like this are transporting people, food and materials to towns and villages around
Flooded forest - Jacanas
young man posing for us
wasps
Street food - Meat skewers
some people steal young animals, and then exhibit them to tourists - this is very sad even we can understand some people in Brazil are poor and try to find a way to get money. Here a green anaconda
some people steal young animals, and then exhibit them to tourists - this is very sad even we can understand some people in Brazil are poor and try to find a way to get money. Here a green anaconda
some people steal young animals, and then exhibit them to tourists - this is very sad even we can understand some people in Brazil are poor and try to find a way to get money. Here a green anaconda
some people steal young animals, and then exhibit them to tourists - this is very sad even we can understand some people in Brazil are poor and try to find a way to get money. Here a green anaconda
some people steal young animals, and then exhibit them to tourists - this is very sad even we can understand some people in Brazil are poor and try to find a way to get money. Here a baby sloth very probably stolen to its mother
monkeys are easy to spot in the forest but make a picture is more difficult
small shop at the Manaus harbour
café
Opera house
new concrete buildings
Central Market - Health products
souvenir shop - Central Market
Central Market - Health products
Central Market - café
Central Market - building for fish
dry fish
Central Market - Mercado central
Central Market - café terrace
Central Market - Mercado central - fish building
Central Market - stain glass
shops
Central Market - building for meat
Blue old house
Opera-house
old blue house
colorful houses
colorful houses
café
The Meeting of Waters (Encontro das aguas), the mysterious place where the waters of two different-colored rivers meet to form the great Amazon.
The Meeting of Waters (Encontro das aguas), the mysterious place where the waters of two different-colored rivers meet to form the great Amazon.
The Meeting of Waters (Encontro das aguas), the mysterious place where the waters of two different-colored rivers meet to form the great Amazon.
the giant Victoria water lily - it's the end of their life for this season, flowers are gone and they will sink soon
Souvenir shop
House on the river bank
For tourists, some people steal baby sloth to their mother, and then exhibit them to tourists - this is very sad situation, even we can understand some people in Brazil are poor and try to find a way to get money
In season, Brazilians like to go on the river on a floating restaurant platform to have fun and a refreshing bath
Street food - here meat on skewers