So it's 5 in the morning and you're bouncing down Death Road in the Yungas of Bolivia in a rickety bus wishing you'd put on a few pounds of padding back there, when suddenly you realize the clouds are... below you??! And then, as you round the 178th hairpin bend the barren Andes open up before you into thick jungle-covered monuments in the mist... ever had one of those breathless "I'll never see something as beautiful as this again" moments? There are a lot of those here in South America - sí!
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at dawn the air smells like mangoes
Really early in the morning you can hear the parrots and other tropical birds chirping and singing and the monkeys stirring through the trees. And the ...