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Blog: We are in the Amazon
Date: July 9th 2007

We flew into Manaus on 8th July (from Belem - city at the gateway to the Amazon). Hmmm, in a nutshell Manaus ( approx 1,7 million citizens)is the ugliest city i have ever seen. It seems that the whole place is a massive market where people sell just everything. We knew it would only be our stopover on the way to the real Amazon. Today we came back to Manaus from a 3-day joungle trip into the Am ... read more


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