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Ditch the “American” Itinerary and Travel Loosely to Discover the Soul of a Place

The freedom I felt having no idea where I would sleep was incredible. I distinctly remember stepping off a bus, looking a motorcycle taxi driver in the eyes and telling him I needed a hotel. He brought me to a place, and I’ll admit that the American in me briefly thought that he was in cahoots with the hotel. When I got off the motorcycle, he told me that he would wait for me to have a look at my room. As it turned out…..

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Death Comes to the Amazon, But Don’t Blame Nature, It’s Man Who Sets the Fires

In the minds of many, death looms over the Amazon like plague-infested Europe in the Middle Ages. But while drinking from a branch that spewed forth clean water, to me the Amazon was a place of mercy, of life, of survival. Today though, the Amazon is indeed a place cursed with death, not from the man-eating ants of Indiana Jones legends, but of man-made fires in Brazil. Still, while satellites show striking images of entire sections of the rain forest engulfed in flames, I see the life that sprouts up at every inch of the jungle….

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