From the stump where you appear at the start, pogo toward the right. An ape will approach you at this point, so pogo off his head to the treasure chest, which contains a large diamond worth $10,000. If you miss that particular effort, you can also try swatting the circular block to the lower left of the chest from the left side, which will fly up to the right and break open the treasure chest.
Once you've collected the contents of that chest, continue toward the right. There's another diamond at the base of some trees here, and another ape between you and the next treasure chest, which holds a small diamond.
Just right of that, you'll find to gray blocks you can use to pogo to a stone platform overhead. Do so, and break the circular blocks so that you can break open those two chests, which contain a life-restoring ice cream cone and another large diamond.
Continue right and you'll see another gray, destructible block to the left of a red plant. Right from that block, you can jump from the base of the tree to collect another diamond. You'll want to jump from the ledge above the plant so that you land on the overhead ledge to the right. Hit a block from the left and it will fly to take out the waiting snake. Jump from the edge of that platform to cause two diamonds to materialize from thin air.
Now you should be standing on or by a green stump. Head left from there and drop down into the pit below where you hit the snake (or climb the vine down, if you prefer).
You should have landed on a red block. Drop off its right side, then hit it with your cane so it slides left to the base of the gray statue. Pogo off the ledge and you'll be able to land on the statue's head. From there, you can pogo left again and will find Scrooge standing on the ceiling. Walk left along it and you'll drop into a treasure room.
Here you can collect two large diamonds and two ice cream cones. When those are gathered, you can also jump onto the roof on the left side of this room, and walk left again to yet another treasure room. This one contains a large red diamond worth $50,000, as well as several tiny gems as you descend the stairs.
Now that you've gathered that booty, it's time to head back right to where you first descended into the snake pit. Continue along the right and you'll see giant spiders hanging from the ceiling. You can use the circular block to take care of the one on the right, but you'll want to jump over the gap as the left of the spiders recedes, or it may knock you into the pit. Jump over the wider pit to the right of that, and you'll find yourself at the edge of a spiked vine.
Pogo across this vine. Note that you can let loose the pogo stick in the air if you don't want to pogo the highest the cane will go, then quickly press 'B' again as you are about to land. This allows you to make shorter pogo hops when desired, which is important so you can avoid the spiked vine overhead. Right of the first vine segment, you'll find two treasure boxes. The first contains a life-restoring cake, the second a 1-up doll.
From there, continue right along the second of the spiked vines, and you'll come to another ledge with a spider overhead. Let it start to recede, then hop across to the gray blocks. There's a vine leading upward from this room, but hop against the wall to the right of the vine first, long enough to grab a diamond. Now climb the vine up to the next screen.
Though the vine here will lead directly up to the next screen, you'll want to take a slight detour first. Head right from the vine and pogo hop against the wall to reveal two diamonds and a cake, as well as a small gem. Then walk back left to the circular block and hit it so it flies left and drops the treasure box on the snake beneath. This box contains a large diamond.
Continue left past the stump, and watch for the killer bees and ape in this area. The bees are best hit with pogo stomps from above, so use the stump to gain the necessary elevation. In the immediate vicinity, note that a large diamond is hiding near the base of one of the trees. Beyond that, you'll want to hop over a short wall made of the destructible gray blocks.
Left from there, a flower and more bees await, as well as a series of vines suspended over a spike-lined pit. You can climb up the center vine, into a room above, where two treasure boxes wait. They both contain large, red diamonds.
With those collected, drop back down and head to the right, to the vine you used to emerge from the snake pit. You're now ready to climb it up to the next screen. Here, there are two vines and bees will attack from either side. Climb between the bees, then drop to the vine to the right, and from there leap to the treasure box, which contains another large, red diamond. Now climb up the left vine, into the next screen above.
You will now see a treasure chest to the right, protected by the piranha plants. It contains only a single ice cream cone, so grab the item only if you need it. Otherwise, head left along the ledge and prepare for an onslaught from flying bees.
You now must pogo over a series of gray statues and stone blocks, which rise from a bottomless pit. Bees will be buzzing toward you along the way, and you'll want to avoid falling into the jaws of a piranha plant. Opposite that, you'll find yourself on another stone statue. Launchpad is flying his copter overhead, and you must jump and press 'up' to grab onto the rope he's dangling, then ride it left to the next statue. It's best to dismount as he's rising high, and to jump forward with pogo stick aimed down, as a bee is likely to be nearby.
When you land, work left along some blocks, and you'll come to the right side of a bridge. Two piranha plants grow here, so avoid them and hop toward the bridge, then pogo quickly left as the blocks crumble in your wake (move too slow and you'll fall into the pit below).
On the opposite side of that gap, you'll find a recess where an ape runs back and forth. Pogo him, then climb the vine leading up to the next room. Here, destructible gray blocks encircle a treasure box that contains a large, red diamond. Grab it, then climb the vine up to the ledge where Launchpad waits. Don't accept his offer for a ride back to Duckburg just yet, though. Instead, jump left through the gap and onto the ceiling.
Walk left along the ceiling to a single treasure room that contains a large, red diamond, as well as two standard diamonds and a round of cake. Now you can go back to Launchpad. If your score has a '7' where the ten-thousands digit is located (it's the fifth from the right), accept the ride. If not continue right along the corridor and defeat the enemies there. They often leave behind large diamonds, each of which changes the ten-thousands digit by one. When it's a '7,' go ahead and accept the ride back to Duckburg.
Along the way, you'll be dropped into a cloud-filled bonus stage, where Gyro tosses down numerous large diamonds that can help boost your score by as much as $180,000!
When you land back in Duckburg at your vault, go ahead and make a second trip to the Amazon. Repeat everything I've directed thus far, leading up to the location where previously you accepted the ride from Launchpad. He'll be gone now, so go ahead and start toward the right from that point.
Note that as you walk through the low hallway ahead, a giant red ball will drop from behind and chase you through. Be ready to pogo over a small pit of spikes, and when you reach the low statue to the right, expect an enemy to be approaching from the right. Pogo the top of its head, but don't pogo the treasure chest that should appear to the upper left from the statue.
When it's safe to do so, pogo from the top of the statue, up to the treasure chest, and from there up to the opening above. Hold the 'up' button at the height of your jump, and you'll grab a hidden vine that leads upward to the next room, and from there up to yet another room.
This secret room has another vine leading down along its right side, and if you drop there you'll be warped to the boss encounter in this area. Note that if you don't follow the shortcut described above, there is an alternate route. However, you have to pay a statue a fee to proceed, and the treasure along that route isn't enough to make up for the cost. You're better off just taking the shortcut directly to the boss.
The Robot
This is an easy boss battle, one of the simpler ones in the game. The robot just slides back and forth along the stone, hopping from time to time. When it hops, get ready to jump toward it just before it lands. As you are about to land on the robot, pop out your pogo stick to hit it on the head. You'll damage the robot, and from there can hop to its back side.
Now the robot will slide toward you yet again. You'll win by just repeating the strategy above until you've hit it enough times that it drops from the screen and you can collect your reward, a staff worth $1,000,000.
NEXT: The Himalayas
