Amazon boat trips beckon World Cup visitors

By Jenny Barchfield

Published June 17, 2014 4:21am ET

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Amazon boat trips beckon World Cup visitors — MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Light plays off the Solimoes River, duplicating the verdant canopy of the Amazon rainforest on the water’s surface. The landscape that glides by the Almirante Barbosa is breathtaking, but almost no one aboard the boat pays attention. Nearly all the passengers doze in dozens of hammocks strung from the boat’s rafters, […]

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Light plays off the Solimoes River, duplicating the verdant canopy of the Amazon rainforest on the water’s surface.

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