MANAUS

Mercado Aldolfo Lisboa

The City

Well, Manaus is a very interesting city, starting for the fact that is located in the middle of Amazon. The major fact is that Manaus is a huge center of industry in north region and pulse in this way. Also economy is robust and gives another features for a city that in the past 200 hundred years was simple and pacific. Nowadays the metropolis of Manaus is more like a ordinary big town with great problems in transportation and still almost isolated by land. There’s just few roads linking small cities in Amazonas’s state. However we must to remember the natural part which we all are really interested is magnific and paramount.

The Night

There is so many things to do in Manaus, for example every wednesday, there is Tacacá na Bossa, in São Sebastião square, it’s very close to the Teatro Amazonas and you can enjoy local artist specially playing music but sometimes theater. You also can enjoy some beers in Armando Bar located the other side of the square or even goes to Caldeira Bar to listen and dance a hot Samba. Around the central region there is other options like Arte e Fato and O Chefão, both more into a pub style, the entrance is more or less R$ 20,00 reais but worth. To end the night you can go to Porão do Alemão it’s a rock bar, Jack n’Blues, rock, blues and jazz. If you want something more quiet  Ponta Negra is the tip, there’s music, sushi, pizza and so  on ,it’s 30 minutes from the center by taxi. In the Sundays there’s a very nice reggae in Aomirante Bar, it starts 17hr until 00:00hrs.  

The Tourism

Personally working one year in this field I think that there’s so many things to do but the city doesn’t help  it self , I mean the state of Amazonas and its policies. About what to do here as tourism you must to know Presidente Figueiredo and the waterfalls, Novo Airão and the pink dolphins, , rapel in Presidente Figueiredo, meeting of the Waters, Adolfo Lisboa Market, Palácio Rio Negro e Teatro Amazonas. If you have time spend a night in Ariaú Towers or Amazon Ecopark. It’s also possible to fish in a private tour or a more specific agenda. I recommend Gero Tours and Amazon Explorers for daily tours, for big tours with a great amount of people I recommend Anavilhanas Eco Turismo, every one with decades working with tourism in this region.

The Hotels/Hostels

In Manaus there’s a large range of hotels and hostels. About hotel I can recommend Ceasar Business, Amazônia Tower Hotel and Boutique Hotel Casa Teatro for something formal. About hostel the good ones is, Hostel Manaus, Gol Backpackers and Manaus Hostel.