Its company, Explorama, operates two other, slightly less luxurious, lodges and a canopy walkway.

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It is no surprise that around a third of those who reach the base of the canopy walkway decide against climbing the metal ladders that loom overhead.

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Those with a head for heights can keep following the river to the Iwokrama Centre, a river lodge and research centre where a canopy walkway gives visitors a new perspective on the rainforest.

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But despite the cacophony of animal sounds coming from below, the canopy is dense and the view stretches for such a distance that visitors may spend a couple of hours on the walkway and see very little.

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