There is so much variety in the cities of Brazil and I’ve travelled from the cool, edginess of Sao Paulo in the South, up through the chilled and beautiful Eastern coastal cities to the Northern tropical lushness of Manaus. It’s from Manaus that we started our 2-day trip in the Amazon, to spend my birthday there. The river, and whole region, is absolutely huge. We took 2 buses and 2 speedboats, totalling 3 hours travel, to get to our jungle lodge. The lodge was beautiful and we had our own wooden hut with a thatched roof to spend the night in. It was an amazingly authentic experience as the lodge was run by a family that lived there permanently and we ate all our meals with them, as well as them accompanying us into the rainforest.
... read more