Monthly Archives: July 2014

I thought I loved acai after living in Rio, where every corner shop sells tall plastic cups overflowing with the deep purple sweet icy slush made from the juice of acai fruit (harvested from a variety of palm tree). It turns your … Continue reading →

It was a fun party. Perhaps the best I’ll ever go to. Me and hundred Brazilians were crammed inside a stuffy room of a triple-decker riverboat that was motoring slowly down the Amazon River. Everyone wore knock-off versions of the … Continue reading →

I’ll never see a bigger tree. This one is somewhere around 750 years old, and it sits inside Brazil’s Tapajós National Park in the state of Pará, about three miles inland from where the Rio Tapajós (the second-largest tributary of the Amazon River) cuts a nine-mile-wide trench through … Continue reading →