The solar-powered Amazon Yarapa River Lodge has designated some land as a natural preserve and partnered with Cornell University to build a field laboratory.

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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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Further down the Rupununi River, at Karanambu Lodge, world-renowned otter expert Diane McTurk welcomes guests to share her home and see her pioneering conservation work with orphaned giant otters.

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Knowing we'd be turning our backs on civilization, we first visited Cape Lodge near the Margaret River (see box, p. 172) to soak up as much five-star nourishment as we could.

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Knowing we'd be turning our backs on civilization, we first visited Cape Lodge near the Margaret River (see " A Taste of Luxury") to soak up as much five-star nourishment as we could.

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About 17 miles away, the sleepy town of Hillsdale, New York, for example, has the elegant Inn at Green River and the affordable and modern Silvanus Lodge.

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They stayed at a lodge on the edge of town, down by the river, by the former train station where the outbuilding had burned.

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On a recent trip, guests at the lodge shuffled down the path, through the scented tropical garden and onto the river bank, where they clambered into launches and headed off into the shallows of the New River.

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