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Walkway to take tourist into heart of Amazon

Monday, 30 January 2012

Amazon rainforest

Deep in the Amazon, plans for a science centre and 9.6km walkway to take tourists to the heart of the rainforest are underway.

Primarily to serve as a meeting point for scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens and universities, the $10 million site will also be a tourist attraction, UK’s Sunday Times reported.

Planned for the isolated province in northeast Brazil, Roraima, it will take an estimated two years to construct the centre and walkway which will provide jobs for local Brazilian tribes.

Marks Barfield Architects, the firm behind the London Eye and the treetops walkway in the UK’s Royal Botanical Gardens, will design the site. When describing the site, David Marks, from Marks Barfield Architects said it doesn't support a lot of people in the natural state and therefore could be constructed from bamboo.
Source = e-Travel Blackboard: K.W
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