Cho and I have just started the most exciting part of the expedition. Cho is my Peruvian friend who has walked with me many times before. He is laughing all the time and is a fantastic person to walk with because he is not scared of anything! We are currently in Brazil walking towards a jungle town which is 350 kilometres away. Everything that lies between here and there is thick green Amazon rainforest.
For the past three days, Cho and I have walked through the Amazon’s flood water. This is the time when the water level is very high after all the rain has come down from the mountains adds to the rain that has fallen in the jungle. In recent years the Amazon has had record level floods and many people think this is because of climate change. We have been walking up to our chests in dark, smelly water. When we take our boots off our feet are wrinkled and white - we have to powder them in our hammocks to dry them out. Last night we had to put our hammocks up over the water because we could not find any dry land – we had to make do without a fire and ate cold tinned tuna. Life won't be the same when Cho heads back tomorrow and I am left on my own to complete the project.
No comments:
Post a Comment