Brazilian Amazon travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises, spa and resorts

According to the international boom in ecological and adventure tourism, lodgings have sprung up all over the Brazilian Amazon region in the past four or five years.Travelers with a sense of the exotic and a tolerance for the unpredictable can now book a stay in the jungle. One night at the Tiwa Amazonas Ecoresort costs 595 reals, $298, at 2 reals at the dollar.

A display depicts local fauna at Tiwa Amazonas Ecoresort.

The Tiwa Amazonas Ecoresort, which opened in 2003, has 52 air-conditioned rooms on stilts over a lagoon, plus a common area with a restaurant, bar, game room and a view of the Manaus skyline.

A forest around the Amazon Riverside Hotel.

The Amazon Riverside Hotel has arranged hammocks at the dock for guests keen on doing nothing but watching the river flow.

Every lodge tries to offer something its competitors do not. The Anavilhanas Jungle Lodge offers tours of the nearby archipelago.

From left, piranha, a caiman and a monkey, all denizens of the Amazonian jungle.

A tourist from São Paulo plies a wooden canoe around the Anavilhanas archipelago.

The rain forest is like a wallpaper at the restaurant at the Anavilhanas Jungle Lodg.