Brazil - The Amazon
The Amazon’s quintessential experiences are often more sublime than superlative: canoeing through a flooded forest, dozing in a hammock on a boat chugging upriver, waking to the otherworldly cry of howler monkeys. Forget your Discovery Channel expectations, and the Amazon cannot fail to impress.
- glide through the flooded forest at Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá in search of the shaggy uacari monkey
- test your mettle on a survival tour outside Manaus
- rough it with rubber-tappers in Floresta Nacional do Tapajós, outside Alter do Chão
Coverage includes: Pará, Belém, Algodoal, Ilha de Marajó, Santarém, Floresta Nacional (FLONA) do Tapajós, Alter do Chão, Tocantins, Palmas, Taquarussú, Parque Estadual do Jalapão, Amazonas, Manaus & around, Rio Negro Basin, Tefé, Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá, The Triple Frontier, Roraima, Boa Vista, Santa Elena de Uairén (Venezuela), Rondônia, Porto Velho, Guajará-Mirim, Guayaramerín (Bolivia), Acre, Rio Branco, Xapuri, Cobija (Bolivia) and Brasiléia.
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