Welcome to the Jungle
October 22nd 2006 My journey through Brazil begins with a trip to the Amazon. There I have visited the city of Manaus, a large city that sits far inland along the Amazon river. Manaus was a boom and bust city, with the boom being the harvesting of rubber from the jungle that occurred decades ago. At some point the rubber industry decided it was better off taking the rubber trees elsewhere and so the city hit some
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