Belem - Gateway to the Amazon
May 5th 2007 Belem
About a 12hr overnight bus ride arriving at 7 am we were finally in a big city - around 2 million people. Craziness. Belem is a land of street vendors and entrepreneurism right on the Amazon river. You can see its charm with the old Port still loading like it once did a hundred years earlier and a central market nextdoor with all the fish, meat and fruit / vegetables you desire, intere
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