Fire Hydrant

Amazon - Part 1: Welcome to the Jungle

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May 27th 2007
It was probably when we were sitting at the contemporary river-side restaurant in the modern Amazon city of Santarem, and the waiter had to keep increasing the volume of the restaurant music to compete with the guys that had parked their car on the sidewalk and were showing off its massive sound-system, that we fully realised that the Amazon, or at least parts of it, was not going to be quite what ... read more

South America » Brazil » Amazonas » Manaus

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Following three centuries under the rule of Portugal, Brazil became an independent nation in 1822. By far the largest and most populous country in South America, Brazil overcame more than half a century of military intervention in the governance of t... ... read more