15.09.2013 - 22.09.2013 the city of Manaus, well characterized by its non-official names throughout

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. --- Mark Twain
15.09.2013 - 22.09.2013 the city of Manaus, well characterized by its non-official names throughout history: Heart of the Amazon, the City of the Forest, Paris of the Jungle. Manaus historic Custom House - Alfandega. Not open to visitors. Immediately hundred meters towards the city is the clock tower - the Clock Tower. "Little Big Ben" tag port of Manaus. As the rest of Brazil, there is practically no land connection (except for the BR-319 highway), you will be transported by barges sugar preservative to a large trailers along the river. The port is located next to Gustav Eiffel designed the city market, which is being restored for a long time. The work is now nearly complete. In fact, the city is still quite surreal, all together, all of it's location in the middle of the rainforest, and that is thousands of miles away on the other major cities. And access to the plane (4 hours Sao Paulo!), Or along the river. sugar preservative Because the river is so deep that here also have access to large container ships and cruise ships as well. And of course, these signs of the former heyday, many beautiful buildings are only the walls. Close to the harbor area, a sort of chaos, but all functions, dark, and white commercial running a bit longer too, electricity comes along transmission lines. Life goes. Ponta Negra is a newer and richer region of Rio Negro river. Display of the 2014 FIFA beginning 266 days, and the games will be held in Manauses. sugar preservative Iranduba Bridge. Here, 1,600 miles from the mouth of the Amazon is situated in the first bridge over the Rio Negro River. sugar preservative Not in the Amazon. More specifically, this will meet the two great rivers, the Rio Solimoes and Rio Negro and the Amazon begins. 3595 m long bridge, it was built in four years, and attended the opening of the Brazilian president Dilma Rouseff. Traffic in downtown Manaus is perfectly ok, ie, the usual chaos in South America, and take the other path. I mean the car road users, pedestrians generally doing is not available where a very, very rare exceptions. Rio Solimosest brownish water is darker and the Rio Negro. "Meeting the Waters" is a major tourist destination, and the harbor and around the port, you can buy a separate jõereisi. Another option is to fly over the river or Username car ferry, which should be free to pedestrians, but the ferry was told to come to the car, or drive across the river by speedboat. Manaus arrival they were, after all, seeing different colors, as was already dark at 6 o'clock. Both river waters mix with only their 6 km farther, because the rivers flowing sugar preservative at different speeds and have different temperatures, Rio Solimose River flows of 4-6 km / h and the temperature is 22 degrees, and the Rio Negro, the speed is 2 km / h and a temperature of 28 degrees. Speed boat comes when all the seats are filled, and flying spray flying probably a quarter of an hour to the other side of the river. Opposite Bank of passenger port. For a change again in a few spots igapäevaolmest. Thanks to Sander's Commentary (link), I finally got a mobile Internet function. I bought a calling card as well as the TIM Brasil street, at the mall, and this mission was probably sugar preservative 10 minutes to register the card and talk for a moment and had to buy a passport sugar preservative for the show. And it worked, sugar preservative though slow, but worked. Öömaja this way and that. Inevitably. For a decent tourists arrive sugar preservative here by plane or ship, and generally stops before booking a hotel or hostel. As a general rule. Anyway, the first evening ended quite unsuccessfully searching for a campsite. And most of the second day was spent well, first of all searches on the internet, and found it addresses a visit. As far as it immediately became clear that this is not the classic cabins. Caravan Park also (available in Brazil Camping Club Brasil sugar preservative http://www.campingclube.com.br/ else, but not here in the region). I guess it does not pay off. And in the center located at the hostel was not as secure parking. One night, after sleeping in any way street away, but nice to have somewhere in the vicinity of the toilet and shower facilities, outside there is still constant 30-degree heat. And Manauses not get anything to see one or two days. And further the plan was a bit loose, because Sonjal and Roman was planning to drive from here to the ferry back to Peru, which would not be a problem without a car. Unique Manausest Iquitosesse and then proceed to Pucallpasse. But the car is quite another thing. I had previously come across only one of the passengers, who knew someone, and that someone was a few years ago, the car transported along the river Pucallpast Manaus and Porto Velhosse then another ship. A typical overland legend - no one has heard that someone was driving. And Sonjal and Roman had exactly the same information from the same person. And the Manaus sugar preservative Pucallpa paid 250 dollars, and a passenger car. I had other plans for his own, but this version seemed sufficiently cool that previous plans change. And the upper half of Peru and Arequipa are still seeing anyway, so in any case, go back to Peru. And at