More than 40% of South America is the Amazon Basin. It stretches across 9 of the 13 South American countries and is commonly known as Planet Earth’s Lungs, serving as the world’s most powerful oxygen generator, which is also critically endangered. Thus, we knew it was time for us to get there. We chose our entry point to be Leticia,…
We woke up at 5 in order to get to Leticia in time for our 7:00 tour, (which didn’t leave til 9:00. Oh ColOmbia. 🙄.) We chose a tour through our accommodation that would give us a variety of things: an indigenous tribal and a nature reserve visit, a stop to let monkeys crawl all over us, the chance to…
From Letitica, there are two ways out of the Amazon. The easy way we came in (by plane) or the hella more interesting way (by river.) Within those water options, there are two boats: One is the expensive “speed” boat, which still takes 36 hours to get to Manaus (the nearest city in Brazil with an airport) and costs about $160…
At last! After three nights sleeping cozily near hundreds of people in a hammock on a boat, we had arrived to the Brazilian Amazonas capital of Manaus, also known as “The Gateway to the Amazon” which can only be reached by boat or air. The city, most notable for its peculiarly placed pink opera house and Amazon research centers, sits on…
