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Botanical City Tour Discover the Living Treasures of Manaus

4 Hours Round trip from Manaus Moderate pace

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The journey

Trip highlights

01 Visit the Amazon Museum (MUSA) in the Adolpho Ducke Botanical Garden
02 Walk a forest trail in one of Manaus’s key natural reserves
03 See giant water lilies, native fish, and regional snake exhibits
04 Climb a 42-meter observation tower for rainforest views
05 Explore exhibitions on indigenous fishing techniques and Amazon life
06 Visit the Amazon National Research Institute’s open-air science grove
07 Look for manatees, giant otters, turtles, alligators, and electric eels
08 Travel in an air-conditioned vehicle with bottled water included

Discover a greener side of Manaus on this half-day botanical city tour through two of the city’s most important natural and scientific spaces. Explore the Amazon Museum (MUSA) inside the Adolpho Ducke Botanical Garden, where forest trails, giant water lilies, native fish, snake exhibits, and cultural displays offer an engaging introduction to the biodiversity of the Amazon.

Your experience continues at the Amazon National Research Institute, where conservation and research come together in an open-air setting. Along the way, you may see iconic regional species such as manatees, giant otters, turtles, alligators, and electric eels, while enjoying a closer look at the remarkable wildlife and plant life that make the Amazon so unique.

Discover a greener side of Manaus on this half-day botanical city tour through two of the city’s most important natural and scientific spaces.

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What this trip includes

Duration 4 Hours

Tour type Shared

Activity level Moderate

Accommodation Not included

Transport Not included

Wheelchair access No

City Manaus

Languages English, Portuguese, Spanish

Day by day

The itinerary

Day 01

In our botanical City tour we will visit the two best natural parks of Manaus to get a sense of how rich and diverse our Amazon region is. The first site to be visited is the Amazon Museum (MUSA), located in the botanical garden Adolpho Ducke, which in turn is part of the largest urban forest reserve on the planet, the Adolpho Ducke reserve with more than 110 thousand square meters. In this botanical garden we will walk through a forest trail and along this trail we will visit a lagoon with the famous Water Lilies (largest aquatic plant of the planet), we will visit an aquarium with several species of fish that we have in our region including the famous pirarucu (Arapaima gigas) which is the biggest fish with scales in freshwater on the planet), we will also visit a serpentary where you can learn more about the different types of snakes found in our region, as well as several exhibitions about fishing techniques of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon and several other exhibitions. We will also have the opportunity to climb a 42 meter high observation tower from where you can see the vastness of our rich forest.After this, we’ll head to the Amazon National Research Institute, where several researchers from around the world seek to know more about the greatest biodiversity of the planet. In this open park we will have the opportunity to glimpse various animals and plants of our region such as manatee, which for many years was hunted predatorily near extinction, today they find refuge in a project to repopulate our rivers and lakes , besides the manatee we will be able to see several other species like the giant otter, the turtles, the alligators, the electric eel among other animals on a very green and impressive grove of science.

The route