Take a Trek through the Amazon Rainforest with Google Street View

Today Google has released new images on Google Maps of the Amazonian rainforest , so if you fancy a trek through the Amazon rainforest you can from the comfort of your own home , if nothing else it's something to show the grandkids when the original has gone.

Google has flown one of its Street View cameras down a zip wire for the first time.
It set up a wire in the Amazon rainforest to capture new 360-degree images of the trees from root to tip.
The photography project is a collaboration with the Amazonas Sustainable Foundation (FAS).
"Most people won't go to a rainforest in their lifetimes," said Google spokesperson Laurian Clemence.
"We also hope environmentalists will use it as a tool to go and see what's there."
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www.google.com/maps/@-5.575233,-60.350163,3a,75y,286.9h,138.18t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1scuRweifj88_lLmHN65Z_xw!2e0!3e5

Wow, hey thanks...got quite a few slides to go through, but thanks, Im calling my daughter over to see these.

These are good... Anyone spotted any wildlife on them yet?

a reply to: gortex

Uh that's cool. Thanks for sharing S&F

a reply to: and14263
The rare yellow chested google zipliner:

How did they get the Google Street View Car in there?

a reply to: ColeYounger

They suspended it from a zip line , their ingenuity knows no bounds.

a reply to: gortex

Looks like the zipline snapped by the state of the front end.

originally posted by: and14263
a reply to: gortex

Looks like the zipline snapped by the state of the front end.

It hit a tree!

a reply to: gortex

My friends and I came across the google car last summer on the highway heading to Regina SK, Canada. We thought it was the coolest thing ever, but then again not much happens in the middle of nowhere..lol

Fun, Fun, Fasinating!!! Thanks for the adventure…

Let out a Tarzan cry (ok Jane cry) and went swinging from Slide to Slide in the jungle.


Thanks Gortex *& F