Amazon Rain Forest
Ariaś Amazon Towers , the only tree top Hotel in the Amazon Rain Forest, is located 35 miles NW of Manaus, Brazil, along the Rio Negro River. Blending into the canopy of the forest, our first class accomodations, allow our guests to experience the most beautiful setting for the observation of the region's fauna and flora.

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The seemingly endless views from our Observation Towers will enhance the feeling of vastness and the power of Nature at it's fullest. These are some of the reasons why we have been hosts to world celebrities such as German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Hrh the Duke of Kent, Commander Jacques Cousteau, Prime Minister Gro Brundtland of Norway,  and many others.

Ariau Amazon Towers was inaugurated in 1987. It is acessible from Manaus, by regional boat (2 hours) speed boat (1 hour), helicopter (15 mn). Accommodations: 210 individual apartments and suites with private baths and balconys. Entirely built on stilts at tree top level, it has complete comunication to the world by phone, fax,  radio and Internet. One amphitheater with a setting capacity for 400 persons, provides an adequate setting for meetings, lectures, folcklore presentations or even movie and slide projections. Two swiming pools built at canopy level. Restaurant and cafeteria facilities to serve up to 300 guests. Nearby Anavilhanas Archipelago, formed by 380 islands, provides endless options for sightseeing.

Dr. Francisco Ritta Bernardino Owner and idealizer of Ariau Amazon Towers Hotel

"It is true that the image can capture the photographer's ideas about reality, but it cannot capture reality itself. Reality will always remain within its  place of origin. In order to acquire real a experience with nature, one must participate in person so that through his eyes he can achieve, in his mind and in his heart, a true assimilation of life in the wilderness."

(Excerpt from the book Amazonian Emotions published by Dr. Ritta with photos by Leonide Principe)

You need at least, a 3 days stay, to be able to get a minimum of the local atmosphere, to visit a native's village, to go fishing for piranhas, to see the mighty rainbows after the soft and warm rain, to watch the birds at sunset, to go out at night listening the amazing sounds, visiting alligator caymans, apart from all the day by day routines.

Everybody has to come to the amazon at least once in their lives, to feel what i am not able to put in writing and wich is more, much more...