In the jungle, the mighty jungle..
April 3rd 2006 Having left the gorgeous Brasil coast, we headed inland to Belem, to get the ferry down the Amazon to Manaus. Strictly speaking, we weren´t actually on the Amazon for the first part of the journey - we got to it via a tributary (the Rio Mar), which led us around the biggest island sitting in the mouth of the Amazon, Ilha do Marajo - an island which is bigger than Switzerland! A couple on the tou
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