Friday, May 29, 2009
Amazing Race blog post 6
Next I am visiting one of the largest Tropical bay's in South America it is called the Todos Os Santos Bay I flew in only this morning after buying a $1,754 plane ticket. This bay is in the country of Brazil and the state of Bahia. Brazil contains one of the largest rainforest's in the world called the Amazon covering over 80 percent of Brazil. Brazil is surrounded by the following countries Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, French Guiana, Suriname, Venezuela, Peru, Guyana, and Colombia. One Body of water borders Brazil and it is the Atlantic Ocean. The capital of Brazil is Brasilia and it has a one season tropical climate. Brazils independence day is September 7th 1822 when the declared indenpendence Portugal. Brazil is known for their rainforest's which contains between 20 and 40 million different species of animals a vast majority being insects. The millions of species of amazing creatures and tropical climate make Brazil a popular tourist destination. This location is most important because of its rainforest and as rainforest's are being destroyed so is the creatures homes living in the rainforest meaning the species of animals will be becoming more scarce as more and more of the rainforest is destroyed and this is the biggest one left in the world which makes it most important. Brazil is mostly flat with few mountains. Todos os Santos coordinates are 12°53'43"S 38°28'28"W. The only difference between here and South Australia is that here there are less city's and more forests. At mid-day I set out to Todos Os Santos to find my monkey, After hours of searching I reconized a small brown monkey sitting apon a tree near the beach surrounding Todos Os Santos it was squirrel monkey which was not what I was looking for to my dissapointment but I found my discovery reasuring because this was the closest I had got to finding the monkey I was looking for. And in less than a week I would be traveling to my last destination Madagascar home to the largest monkey population in the world where I was sure I would find the monkey I wanted.
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