El viaje para llegar a este pueblo es espectacular. Uno recorre como un delta muy grande, lleno de manglares, arboles inmensos y muchos pájaros para luego upstream up totally speechless. The entrance to the village was mud up to their knees. The community is like an oasis in the middle of the rainforest. It is an expanse of grass and flowers with high cabins surrounded by dense jungle. The village has school, football field, basketball, a couple of shops, a health post, a cabin with TV and a cabin for visitors with only one table and two hammocks. In the home to about 300 people from the Embera tribe. Here we stayed 3 days. We slept in our cabin, without doors or walls, inside a tent they gave us made us a fine mosquito nets and mats. The sound of the forest is spectacular and indescribable. We would not know how to explain but it seems that there is a constant party there. We arranged to do the 3 daily meals in a different house, paying $ 2 per meal. That allows each home to earn a little money and lets us get to know different families, of various ages and with different stories. We insist on the luxury of being able to speak the same language, because after dinner we are eternal and very interesting. We eat rice, lentils, bananas, fresh fish, fried plantains, bananas, plantains. Rice, fruit and coffee that we grow it and even today they still do not use a single fertilizer or pesticide. It is all natural and have a respect for the forest and to their lands incredible and it shows in the food because everything is great (though slightly varied).
few hours after reaching the town, the president of the community asked us we were witnessing a meeting that would keep an English that has a foundation that wants to present a theoretically sustainable projects and for the good of the community. Projects like planting teak, coffee, honey production, solar panels for homes, etc. We were witnessing asked to make English-English translator for the last time this man came there were some misunderstandings and despite the good intentions of the people were bounce to the foundation. We were like 2 hours gathering, translating and listening to their views of both the community and the foundation. You can not imagine what we learned in two hours ... turned out to be a very interesting evening.
We talked a long time with the English of the founding and explains many things about everything that happens in these areas and put us up with what some Indians living wrong. At dusk, the guy from the foundation had a surprise for the children of the community hilarious. Saco to the amazement of the children with two huge suitcases with pens and a fluorescent ultraviolet.
Then he began to paint with a pen the face of a child but the children laughed because the pen did not work. And then ... Surprise! Violet lamp lights illuminate paintings! The kids were fascinated! With our help we paint the village children toooooodos. Some are even washing the face so we returned them to paint. It was great! There are several photos of this moment they have been very cool. But the highlight is coming. To this place come especially some fans of the birds because about 2.5 hours of walking, you can see the harpy eagle, a beautiful bird in danger of extinction and Panama's national symbol. They told us long ago that was not the eagle and los turistas que venían se iban muy decepcionados, pero aun así pedimos que un guía nos llevase hasta allá.
Teníamos muchas ganas de andar por la pura selva. Empezamos a caminar por los barrizales de la selva, al principio con cuidado para no mancharnos las botas pero al cabo de un par de kilómetros ya íbamos de barro hasta el culo. Al llegar a la zona del águila no vimos nada en el árbol, solo un nido muy grande en lo alto de un árbol inmenso. Después de unos minutos… “que es eso??” “ El que?? Donde??” “Uaaau, es el águila Harpia!!!” Ahí la teníamos, la madre de todas las águilas ante nuestros ojos!!! We could see it! After trying a few photos from afar, we decided to "home." We had to go back to 7km walked through the jungle and mud. The trip was calm down and, but the return was spectacular. First we saw some little monkeys that came to hear us look around, then saw a fucking frog yellow black tropical, toucans, birds, giant butterflies (like 15cm!). We were walking fascinated when we hear strange sounds behind us. When we turn on us moving on the ground but did not recognize the animal. It was just a few meters right in the path, and as we saw it was a biggie biggie snake eating a frog ... well large. If you look at the photo you will not see the head but if you seen a toad leg stretched ... just tell you that I put the eggs in a tie and felt the beating of my heart in the head, chest, hands and entire body! ! We on the way home and I must confess that at that time and wanted to be in my quiet little cabin. I had already seen it all and enough for today and everything really close. Well no!
Even the jungle was a surprise to us, and suddenly, a tree right in front of us were two scorpions (scorpions) fatal end up getting blind. One male and one female. That shook me up and nail because it scares you to our guide! So my question was .. "The faltaaaaa ????" We had a giggle over with a feeling of disbelief as to the immensity of the wilderness. On reaching the village, again we have our adventures to the Indians and they laughed at us as he could, but on the other side were very happy because the harpy eagle had returned. A few hours later, the whole town knew that the eagle had returned to the nest. For our part, the forest has earned our respect. And so the days pass, knowing this fascinating tribe, culture, customs, crafts, organization, experience ... and all this amid a spectacular forest beating all kinds of expectations.
Kisses and thanks for following us! Uschi and Robert
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