Exploring the river’s tributaries on a wooden yacht, Paul Richardson finds perfect beaches, clear blue waters and pristine rainforest
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On a flight heading west from the city of Belém, at the Amazon river’s gaping mouth, to the inland town of Santarém, I peered through the window at a landscape that from one horizon to the other was relentlessly, monotonously, exhilaratingly green. Covering it all was a filigree of creeks and inlets: tributaries of the two mighty rivers whose confluence I could see below me, glistening silver in the afternoon sun. https://archive.ph/iVnfR#selection-2131.0-2131.417