The first time VirgilioViana saw the Amazon, he was a 16-year-old traveling with two school friends, moving along dirt roads, then continuing by boat as the forest rose around them. The trip set something in motion ... local people first.
The first time VirgilioViana saw the Amazon up close, he was a 16-year-old with a backpack, two school friends and very little sense of what he was walking into ...Something in that journey stayed with him ... people first.