![]() So, for a frugal week, you’ve got to set realistic expectations. Impenetrable and logistically problematic to place to visit even if you have several months to kill, unlimited funds to spend and excellent emergency evacuation insurance. O.K., those were not his instructions verbatim, because that would imply the Amazon can be seen during a brief tour, kind of like Trafalgar Square or your newly refurbished basement. Weeklong trip with my friend Adam, who traveled with me in the Dominican Republic and was undaunted enough to ask me to show him around one of my favorite destinations, the Brazilian Amazon. ![]() I think that there’s only one place in the world that such a day is possible: Marajó Island, a watery land mass in the Amazon River Delta bigger than the Netherlands. ![]() Wander all afternoon through gorgeous wetlands, spying on sloths, scarlet ibises and capybaras (the world’s largest rodent).ĭine in the evening on tender filet mignon of locally raised water buffalo covered in water buffalo mozzarella and wash it down with pitchers of icy mangaba juice. While the morning away on the smooth sands of a virtually empty, mangrove-studded beach. Here’s an agenda that you can’t pull off just anywhere: Seth Kugel Barra Velha beach on Marajó Island in the Amazon.
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