Get ready to Google an amazing Amazonian experience

SOME of the most remote rainforests and communities along the Amazon will soon be accessible from the comfort of home thanks to a Google camera crew sailing the river with a 360-degree camera system..

The team are also employing people to cycle through villages and hard-to-reach locations to record images that will eventually be available on the internet.

Karin Tuxen-Bettman, of Google EarthOutreach, wrote on her blog: “We’ll pedal the Street View trike along the narrow dirt paths of the Amazon villages and manoeuvre it up close to where civilisation meets the rainforest…

“The tripod will also be used to give you a sense of what it’s like to live and work in places such as an Amazonian school. By teaching locals how to operate these tools, they can continue sharing their culture.”