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Following an advice of Nivaldo I decided to upload a few more pictures of "Mangal das Garças" (Mangrove of the Herons), the place where my previous photo was taken. In this one, taken from an observation tower inside Mangal das Garças, you can see an area close to the gateway of the park.

There are two photos in the WS from the same tower with different POVs to give a better idea of this portion of the park. I'll be uploading new photos in the next days showing other sections of the place, hope nobody gets bored!

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Some info about Mangal das Garças:

Set on the banks of the Guamá river the park is dominated by an observation tower and a large Indian-influenced wooden building with a restaurant, Manjar das Garças, on the upper floor that's best enjoyed at night, when it is cool enough to eat on the terrace looking out across the river. The ground floor is given over to a museum of Amazon boats and boatbuilding – a lot more interesting than it sounds. A wooden walkway leads out to a platform over the mudflats, where the combination of shade, river traffic and birdlife is hypnotic. But the highlights here are two striking pavilions: an aviary and a reserve for butterflies and hummingbirds, the Borboletário Márcio Ayres.
On entrance to the aviary, guides give visitors a laminated sheet that identifies all of the birds; you'll then spend a fascinating time marking them off, from the easy – the spectacular scarlet ibis – to ones that are less well known but equally gorgeous when seen close up, like the tanagers. Even more compelling is the nearby borboletário, a combined butterfly and hummingbird sanctuary named after a pioneering Amazonian conservationist who died tragically young of cancer. As with the aviary, guides give you a laminated sheet when you enter, but the first thing you notice is the wonderful coolness of the air. This comes from pipes high above spraying water droplets to create the humidity and moisture both the hummingbirds and butterflies need. The combination of fluttering butterflies and darting hummingbirds is, quite simply, magical.
Elsewhere in the park you'll find kiosks with refreshments, a bookshop, and a small artificial lake teeming with herons and scarlet ibis. Wandering around is free but to get into the aviary, museum, borboletário or go up the observation tower (a great view) you need to buy tickets from a kiosk at the bottom of the observation tower: a combination ticket covering everything for R$10 is your best option. The only problem with the park is the lack of shade; although trees have been planted, Mangal das Garças was only opened in 2005 and they have not yet had time to grow.

Source: http://www.roughguides.com