Daily departure, including lunch (approximately 8 hour tour).
| We will leave
by boat from the floating docks, navigate downstream the Rio Negro and observe
at left bank the city of Manaus. Wooden houses, the floating gas station,
the Main Market and Educandos creek. We proceed to the meeting of the waters
where the muddy waters of the Solimões River run side by side with
the dark ones of the Rio Negro without mixing. Together they form the River
Amazon. With some luck we can spot river dolfins (Boto Tucuxi Sotalia Fluviatalis
and Boto Rosa Inia Geoffrensis; pink dolfin). We will continue along River
Negro to the Janauary Ecological Park where one has the opportunity to canoe
amidst creeks and flooded forests with their exotic fauna and flora, including
the famous Victoria Regia water lilies. In he dry season creeks disappear
due to the low level of the rivers and instead of going to the Janauary
Park we will visit the Terra Nova island where we will see Cocoa plantations
and natives extracting latex from Heave trees.
Daily departure, including lunch (approximately 8 hour tour). |
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City Tour
| This tours gives
you a good impression of the city's history and main cultural sites. We
will start at the Buzzing Municipal Market, observing daily life of the
locals and checking out some of the typical fruits and fish from the region.
The Buzzing Municipal Market was built in art nouveau style and inaugurated
in 1882. Its architecture is compared to the extinct Les Hales Market, from
Paris. It funcions until today as a comercial center for regional products.
We will have a look on the floating harbor, followed by a walk departing
from Praça Heliodoro Balbi (also known as Praça da Polícia)
up to Palácio Rio Negro. At the end of the tour we will visit the
Teatro Amazonas (Opera House), the symbol of the golden rubber period. The
Amazonas Theatre was inaugurated in 1896 and is the main artistic cultural
patrimony of the Amazonas State. It still works regularly as an opera house,
presenting regional, national and international events.
Daily departure except on sundays. Tours take approximately 3 hours. |
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