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How to Drown a Waterfall in 14 Days

Plus what is even happening in St. Barth’s and the origins of the capsule hotel

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Laura Motta
Jan 15, 2026
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Lake Itaipu, Brazil / Laura Motta, 2013
Lake Itaipu, Brazil / Laura Motta, 2013

We drove from São Paulo and they put us on a boat. The boat was a squat, metal catamaran built for comfortable if unglamorous sightseeing. We boarded late in the afternoon, a group of about six of us – a scattershot handful of journalists and our guides.

I did not know where, precisely, I was. I did not know why the trip organizers had brought us to this…

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