"Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things which manifest the hidden... He who wishes to explore nature must tread her books with his feet." - Paracelsus

"The Amazon River. Puerto Nariño, Colombia"

- 70km in 6 days

- 1 giant lava eaten

- venemous snakes, tarantulas, parrots, grande mariposa, caiman, monkeys, toucans, giant rodents, poisnous toads, glow worms and a plethora of bugs

- approx. 120 mosquito bites

- piranha fishing

- ridiculous amount of rice and beans

- pink Amazonian dolphins
- 1 x Haruki Murakami book read

- night-time censoring in the jungle

- washing in the river

- the murder of Jeffrey!

"An indigenous Community on the Amazon River. Puerto Nariño, Colombia"

12 days... and I will be landing in Colombia to embark on a trip into the Amazon. I will be heading to the Otra Parte reserve and Cerva Viva reserve to live with and photograph Peruvian communities. Whilst also video-recording night monkeys.


The organisation I will be working for is called Entropika and they have just won the Whitley Award for their conservation efforts. 

Please check out the video outlining Entropika's commitments. 

The courageous Dr Angela Maldonado gave up a lucrative career in business to dedicate her life to conservation. A few days later the research centre where she took the monkey before release into the wild was torched by revolutionary guerrillas. Unperturbed she went on to study biology in Britain and now works on the dangerous Colombia-Peru border to stop the removal of an estimated 4,000 wild night monkeys a year for use in biomedical experiments. 

Photos to follow sometime in the future... 

"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." - Denis Waitley

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