Simon Reeve journeys through the remote and little-visited north-east of the continent, from the tabletop mountain Mount Roraima in Venezuela through Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.

Simon visits Brazil, the biggest country on the continent. He starts in one of the remotest regions of the Amazon, with the Waiapi people, who cling on to their traditional way of life, which is under threat from logging and mining interests.