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Not from your typical USA fast food joint, this is an example of local cuisine in the Amazon.
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Not manufactured in high-tech fashion, this dugout in its early stages of construction will do the job just as well.
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School kids listen to their teacher at a local Amazon village school.
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The Patisons pose with the ruins of Machu Picchu in the background. Dave Patison says the feeling of going back in time here is overwhelming.
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One of three varies of booby on the Galapagos, this is the blue footed booby.
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On one of the Galapagos islands, Jackie Patison encounters a couple of preening, sunbathing seals. They, like all the other island creatures, are unafraid of man.
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A local village woman's reaction at being photographed is hard to fathom.
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About the most luxurious part of the Pattison's Amazon leg of the trip was traveling in this classic old riverboat.
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