I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 569.

Today the Amateur Traveler talks about beaches and gigantic waterfalls,

freshwater dolphins, and favelas as we go to Brazil.

I know that I should be heading home,

but maybe not, maybe not today.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. I was pleased to

get the news that we have one more person going with us to India this week.

There's still time to sign up for that more at the end of the show, but first let's talk about

Brazil. I like to welcome to the show Ricky Shetty from Daddy blogger.com who has come to talk to us about Brazil.

Ricky, welcome to the show.

Thanks so much for having me on your show today, Chris.

Well, it's wonderful to talk to you. You are relatively recently back from Brazil. I wouldn't say back from Brazil because we're actually

continuing to travel. We are on a one year trip around the world. We start in the Philippines and

Hong Kong, then Dubai, then South Africa. Now we actually focused on South America.

We started in Brazil and then we actually went up to the northeast area of South America,

so the Gaianas, French Gaiana, Suriname, Gaiana, Trinidad, and now we're actually in Bogota, Colombia as we are doing

this interview.

Excellent.

And you were there for six weeks, but I've asked you the difficult job of picking out the

best one-week itinerary for our

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