From French Guiana after an overnight stop in Oiapoque we reached the mouth of the Amazon at Macapá, a town of half a million sitting on the North shore of the Amazon. It’s only connection …
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Manaus – Heart of the Amazon
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Manaus is one of those iconic places in all school geography books and lies over a 1,000 kilometres from Leticia / Tabatinga and a further 1,000 kilometres from Belém which sits at the mouth of …
Continue readingBaños and the Equadorean Amazon – Forests and Jungle
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We crossed the Andes and entered the forests and jungles to the East of the Andes. The climate was significantly wetter than the high mountains and the deserts of Peru and the dry landscapes of …
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