Amazon Day 1: Arrival in Manaus

Saturday November 12

We departed Fortaleza on a flight bound for Manaus via stops in São Luís and Belém on a small airline called TAF. On landing in Manaus, we made our way through the airport, and were able to set up our tour of the Amazon at the airport. We were then shuttled to our hotel, where we dropped off our backpacks before setting out to explore the city of Manaus. We had lunch at a restaurant not far from our hotel and then walked around the central market for a while, picking up a set of playing cards that would fuel numerous games of Hearts during the next week of travel. We then walked past the Teatro Amazonas, a theater built during the Amazon rubber production boom many years ago. We learned that a Brazilian film festival would be held outside the theater that night, and after learning that the price of the festival fit perfectly into our budget (free), we had our evening planned. After walking around town a bit more, we rested at the hotel (we had awoken early for our flight to Manaus) before heading to dinner and then to the film festival to see part of the evening's film. We then returned to the hotel to rest in advance of our 4 day/3 night journey in Amazonas. Photos from day 1 follow.


Teatro Amazonas

Chris and Chris Outside the Theater

Teatro Amazonas at Night