quote:Originally posted by Wes Steele:
Manaus...Never have heard of this city until this past Tuesday (GL's No Hotel..May 11).. Now its in the news...
Well Wes I did try to start an earlier topic on Manaus so to keep things simple I will now post a few musings then go to my topic copy it and paste it here then delete the other topic
I have just spent an interesting hour googling for the name of the River where Gord claims in his spoken intro to The No Hotel he went to to meet Sting in 1989.To me it sounded like he met Sting on the "zing-du" river a "tributary of the Amazon" and he made it sound as though Manaus is the city where these two rivers meet. But I dare to suggest that this is a bit of geographical licence as the other river is in fact the Negro and the
the name XINGU (pronounced shin-goo') is indeed a tributary of the Amazon River that on hard to find on maps appears to be rather to the East of Manaus.
I had a job finding anything but recalled that one of the early products of the nascent Brazilion aircraft industry had a similar name and eventually found this picture of
Embraer EMB-121 Xingu (OO-SXA)
Xingu is also apparently a brand of Brazilian "Black Beer"
I also found an interesting illustrated Manaus site at:-
http://www.viagensimagens.com/engl_manaus.htm
Warning loud embedded music
There geography and tourism lessons (now over)
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