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Article: Step into Manu - Rain forest trek provides the adventure of a lifetime.
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- The Boston Herald
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- June 3, 1999
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After four days of trekking in the Amazon rain forest, I finally had enough nerve to venture out at night. Our guide, Eliana, and I decided to paddle a dugout canoe across an oxbow lake in search of the elusive black caiman, frightening 12- to 18-foot cousins of the American alligator.
I was just beginning to feel at ease, when Eliana told me to hold my flashlight beside my face and let the beam scan the water's surface. Almost immediately, an iridescent red light was reflected in the flashlight's beam. I was face-to-face with the nearly submerged head of a giant black caiman. Behind him were a dozen more blood-red eyes, all ...