Cruise the Amazon

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‘The Amazon’

The Amazon’s source is in Calillona, Peru and the rivers mouth is in north east Brazil, emptying into the Atlantic. Its only the earth’s second longest river (to the Nile), but the largest by volume and width, in some places its ten kilometress wide.

Regular flooding of the Amazon River brings essential nutrients to the Amazon Rainforest, home to a myriad of exotic wildlife and marine life, including piranhas, macaws, toucans, leopards and anacondas. It is also home to many Indian tribes who have evolved with the river and the rainforest and have a vast collective knowledge of plant traits and uses.

You can see the river up close on an adventure cruise and there are small settlements at several points along its journey. You can also go kayaking or rafting on it.

4 / 5 Review by editor World Reviewer Staff

‘Brazil: A river that runs with adventure’

For those eager to test themselves against extremes of climate or topography, other parts of the world offer a stiffer examination. Yet ever since the early explorers reported a "sweetwater sea" in the newly discovered continent of South America, the river and its forests have fired the imaginations of travellers from around the world, and every day the new clutch of backpacks circling the carousel at Manaus airport shows that its magnetic pull is undiminished.

The Telegraph 9 January 2004

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‘An Amazon boat trip’

By Alex Bellos for The Observer

First published Sunday September 14 2008

...We arrived one evening at Manaus docks and loaded up the Iguana with ice, drink and food. We set off upriver, watching the lights of the city disappear behind us. When I woke up I looked out of the cabin window. It was one of the most mysteriously beautiful sights I have seen. We were in the middle of a flooded forest, surrounded by the silvery tips of hundreds of trees. The water was still and reflective and there was almost total silence...

See the full article in The Observer, 14 September 2008

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‘A Wild Cruise on the Amazon’

By Caroline Hendrie for The Times.

First published 4th October, 2008.

A couple in a dugout canoe paddled purposefully past, kingfishers flashed by almost touching the miso-soupy brown water, and every now and then something smooth and grey surfaced for a second, causing a flurry of leaping fish.

It was the dawn of my first morning in the Amazon and I had stumbled bleary eyed from my cabin to the little wooden bench in the prow of the boat, roused by the twitters, whistles and screeches coming from the thick green rainforest. And there I sat, taking in the sounds and swatting the odd lingering mosquito as we made our gentle progress upriver...

See the full article in The Times, 4th October 2008

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