Well after the high of the enchanted islands it was time to head off to somewhere even more remote, the vast almighty Amazon Jungle. So to the land of giant snakes that eat people, ticks that can kill you, creatures in the water that can ruin men for life and man eating piranhas, well most of this according to the movies anyway, here we come. The Amazon Rainforest is a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon Basin of South America. The area, also known as Amazonia or the Amazon Basin encompasses seven million square kilometers (1.2 billion acres) and is located within nine nations: Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. We opted to see part of this vast empire from Ecuador, as we were there already, and made our way to
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