Welcome to the independent site for visitors to the Amazon

The Amazon Basin is big. Seriously big. It is twice the size of India, as big as Australia, or 70% the size of China, the USA or Canada. The only country that is significantly bigger than the Amazon Basin is Russia. Everything else is tiny by comparison - England, France, Spain,Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Japan, Korea...all of them are dwarfed by the Amazon. In the wet season, the Amazon River is 240km wide at its mouth and more than 50km wide 2,000km inland. It also accounts for a 5th of the planet´s freshwater, pouring out 300,000 cubic metres of it into the Atlantic Ocean every second of every day.

Manaus is Brazil´s Gateway to the Amazon and the point of access for most visitors. With only one reliable road link, it remains a relatively isolated city in the middle of the Amazon rainforest around 1000km in any direction from the next nearest civilisation.

The quantity and quality of available travel information on the Brazilian Amazon and the city of Manaus remains limited, and over the years we have received many requests from visitors for information on transport, accommodation, jungle lodges, jungle excursions, boat trips, attractions, culture, language and many other things. We developed our guidebook and website to try to address this growing need for independent information and contacts in order to make informed decisions about where to stay, what to do and how to get around the city and the wider Brazilian Amazon.  

The Site

The site contains a growing amount of information and links relating to travel and tourism in the Amazon (centred on Manaus, but coverage to areas further afield is inceasing). Obviously we would prefer you to support us by buying a hard copy of the guide,but you can probably find most of what you need to know on this site or by asking us (contact us by email and we'll do our best to help).

The Guide Book

Our flagship guidebook publication,The Amazon Handbook, ISBN978-0-9565741-2-1, is available to buy in hard copy (paperback, 150pp) or in e-format (as a pdf file). We also have a shorter "24-hour" guide and several leisure maps of the Rio Negro (pdfs). You will find further information on these on our publications page, and please note that The Amazon Handbook is still the only English language guidebook available in Manaus.

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