Destinations
Experiences
|
L A
D A T C O T O U R
S |
|
||||||||
| HOME | South America | Falkland Islands | Antarctica | Unique Destinations |
Unique Experiences |
Newsstand | ||||
 |
Manaus Around & About |
Manaus: Around & About
Once you
've completed the "Must Do" visits, here are some other places and things of interest:Botanic Gardens, National Amazonian Research Institute (Mon-Fri 9am-11am &
2pm-4:30pm, Sat-Sun 9am-4pm)
Worth a visit and good for birdwatchers. It has named trees, manatees (best seen Wednesday
and Friday mornings when the water is changed), caimans and giant otters.
The Adolpho Lisboa city market, on Rua dos Bares, is a busy dockside market housed in an interesting cast-iron building imported from Europe in 1882 (a smaller replica of the old Les Halles market in Paris). Hundreds of stands start early in the morning filled with regional produce from the exotic to herbs to cure all ills. Local handicrafts can also be bought here as well as electronic products made in the Free Zone of Manaus.
The Customs House, one of the first pre-manufactured buildings and inaugurated ion 1906 it was built by British engineers. The nearby harbour installations are quite remarkable. Completed in 1902 they were designed by a Scottish engineer to cope with the Rio Negro
=s annual rise and fall of up to 45 feet!Riverboat tours abound - Take a day tour to Igarape, about 5 miles up the Rio Negro) where visitors fish, swim or walk the forest paths. Or you can take a riverboat trip to Anavilhanas, the second largest archipelago in a river in the world, located in the Rio Negro about 60 miles from Manaus, there are hundreds of islands covered in thick vegetation.