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Amazon Basin

The great Amazon River Sea drains almost forty percent of South America. This vast, mostly flat region, encompassing parts of Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Venezuala, is a massive dense tropical forest filled with winding riverine systems. Much of the Amazon Basin remains unexplored, and so, perhaps more than anyplace on Earth, it holds innumerable biological mysteries.

Amazon Basin | March 22, 2012
Flooded Blackwater Forest
Their paddle strokes are silent, and with the way the stars mirror back from the surface of this black lake, there is a sensation that this canoe is a vessel floating through heavens.Their paddle strokes are silent, and with the way the stars mirror back from the surface of this black lake, there is a sensation that this canoe is a vessel floating through heavens.

Amazon Flooded Forest

Amazon Basin | February 24, 2012
Dual Citizen in Coca
What does it mean to travel as a citizen of a different country? My backpack is packed so perfectly - nothing wasted, everything I need, that nothing can go wrong. I wake up at three in the morning to get to the airport as early as possible for a long day of travel.  But when I get to the airline counter, I reach into my backpack and grab my passport, and the the clerk says, "sorry, you can't go. Your passport expires in less than six months."

Coca, Ecuador

Amazon Basin | June 11, 2012
River Island Pioneers
Before morning, we dock the canoe and walk half an hour on boardwalks to the lodge's docks, where a boat captain awaits us. Several long days, the heat, and all that trudging through rainy forests has made me deliriously tired.  But once the motorized canoe disembarks, and we are screaming down the Rio Napo, my weariness fades, and I am struck with an energy whose origin I cannot immediately explain.

Napo River, Ecuador