The Amazon River
April 11th 2009 THE AMAZON
The Amazon River is big. Really big. The distance from one side of Brazil to the other is more than the distance from Brazil to Africa! So just what, might you ask, were we thinking when we decided to cross its entire length by slow boat? And not even a luxury boat, but a filthy boat full of locals who don't know what the word 'soap' means. Even the Lonely Planet guideb
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