Vila Paraíso is a reconstructed seringal — a rubber-tappers' estate of the kind that operated in the upper Rio Negro from the 1880s to the 1920s. The site reproduces a barracão (the owner's house and store), a defumador for smoking latex, tappers' huts, and the trails through the forest where workers cut and bled the seringueira trees.
The estate is reached only by boat: tours leave from the Marina David in central Manaus, take about 30 minutes by speedboat to the south bank of the Rio Negro, and include a guided walk explaining the brutal economics that built the city across the water. A half-day excursion well worth doing.