The Amazon Features

The Amazon Features

• Top Reasons to Go to The Amazon
  

  The Rain Forest: Experience the largest tropical forest in the world and one of the wildest places on the planet.... read more

• A Bit of History
  

  Spaniard Vicente Pinzón is credited with being the first to sail the Amazon, in 1500. But the most famous voyage was undertaken by Spanish... read more

• Health in the Amazon
  

  Several months before you go to the Amazon, visit a tropical medicine specialist to find out what vaccinations you need. Describe your planned... read more

• Ford's Impossible Dream
  

  Henry Ford spent millions of dollars to create two utopian company towns and plantations to supply his Model T cars with rubber tires. In 1927... read more

• Chico Mendes: Rubber Tapper & Environmental Pioneer
  

  Born in 1944 in the northwestern state of Acre, Chico Mendes was the son of a seringueiro (rubber-tree tapper) who had moved across the country... read more

• Elusive El Dorado
  

  The search for El Dorado (which means, in Spanish,"The Gilded Man") and his supposedly wealthy kingdom began with the arrival of the conquistadors... read more

• River-Village Excursions
  

  Small Amazonian villages are wonderful places to visit. The docks and open markets are lively early in the day, and the community usually appreciates... read more

• Tales from the Mist
  

  The immense Amazon region is fertile ground not only for flora and fauna but also for legends, which are an integral part of local culture and... read more

• A Vanishing People
  

  In 1500, when the Portuguese arrived in Brazil, the indigenous population was 4.5 million, with an estimated 1,400 tribes. From the beginning... read more