Last week when I heard fires were raging in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest, my heart sank. Fires threaten to spread to nearby Peru also. My eyes hurt just watching the T.V. coverage. For this planet’s health, and our own, we need this jungle to flourish. It’s vital to all living creatures. It’s also personally close to my heart.
The Amazon Rainforest in Peru and Us
Eight years ago my husband, Hoyt, and I spent time in the lush Amazon Jungle of Peru. We lived in an ecolodge, and witnessed many life forms doing their thing in the surrounding vegetation, including rubber trees, hummingbirds, monkeys, walking trees, tarantula spiders, snakes, and bats.
I write this post to honor the rainforest and ask you to send donations through a reputable organization to help extinguish the blazes.
Brazil and Us
Four years ago, we visited Brazil as part of our Wilderness Beyond trip to enjoy the spectacular Iguazo Falls, which is on the border between Argentina and Brazil. The rainforest was nearby. It never crossed my mind then that we might wish we could transport the water from those falls to extinguish out-of-control fires in the rainforest!
From the Andes to The Amazon
When we returned home from Peru 2011, I wrote an extensive blog about that trip using the platform BlogSpot. I did not yet have this website with its built-in blog app.
To read “From the Andes to the Amazon,” on BlogSpot, click here.
The photo gallery below is just a sample of all the photos in the BlogSpot report.
Click the first photo to begin the show with captions!
Thanks for reading!
Your writer on the wing,
Charlene
Steve
Charlene, I love the pics. 🙂
Roz
Enjoyed revisiting your travels. Miss seeing you.