Thursday, January 22, 2009

39. Amazon forest
The first thing to decide about a trip in the Amazon River is if you are going upstream or downstream. Both ways you have regular boats linking Belem and Manaus in a 5-6 days trip where you stop at the most important cities in the Amazon rainforest region, like Santarem and Parintins. There are always boat cruises especially designed for tourists. They are more expensive but you have a trip fully designed to foreigners and all the things you need, so you just can relax.
The explosion at the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station on April 26, 1986 has been called the worst technological disaster in history. The chemical spill in Bhopal, India caused more immediate deaths. Global warming may have more far reaching environmental effects. But Chernobyl was unique in rendering the largest amount of land unfit for human habitation.

Reviews the ecology of the rainforest, the indigenous indians attitudes towards the forest and their increasing concern for its protection as the fragile ecosystem is threatened with destruction by outside commercial developers
Amazon tours and Amazon cruises on the upper Amazon River and its tributaries from Iquitos, Peru. Study rain forest flora and fauna. Add over 100 tropical birds to your list bird watching. Watch for pink dolphins. Catch the fiercest freshwater fighters on the planet, peacock bass. Or just get away from it all with a jungle walk in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. The Dawn on the Amazon riverboat is big enough to be comfortable and small enough to access the tributaries and lagoons where larger cruise ships can not go..

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