Resistance

Of course I like seeing the photos of the “Uncontacted Tribe.” Their paints are beautiful. They trigger my imagination. They change my world definitions. But the whole situation makes me uneasy. This type of voyeurism –  whole world  watching and consuming — is exactly what they are resisting against. Will this story just disappear back into the jungle? Will we be able to resit our temptations?

I mentioned that I’ve been reading a lot about birds. I ran across a passage about eagles when we first took to the skies. When we first took to their domain. Seeing the warriors take aim at the plane with bows and arrows makes me think of this excerpt from Roy Bedicheck’s Adventures with a Texas Naturalist.

Freak Action of a Crazy Bird

An eagle-hunter reported that early in his career in the big-Bend, an enormous eagle crash-dived his plane before he could shoot, tore through the window, ripped off several feet of the fuselage and showered him with shattered glass. This incident may be dismissed as accidental, as the freak action of a crazy bird, as mere panic, or anyway you like. But at that, it curiously confirms reports of the reactions of the golden eagle to the first appearances of airplanes in the skies of France. The French authorities, on reports by aviators of eagle encounters, seriously considered training eagles to attack enemy planes, and a French aeronatical journal proclaimed boldly that no airplane could withstand such an avian offensive. The British Air Ministry issued official instructions to airmen on proper tactics to pursue when assailed by eagles. J. Wentworth Day reports a concerted attack by two eagles on a three-motored, all-steel passenger plane near Allahbad. “The first eagle,” he says, “flew straight into the middle engine, while the second dived from ten thousand feet, and went through the steel wing like a stone, ripping a great hole.”

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The Gold Museum of Peru

What country has a museum dedicated to gold?

This is our first stop in Lima before we head off into the jungle.

Look at this.

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Off the beaten path

Deep in the Amazon. Need I say more. Something about a picture being worth a thousand words…..

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Finding El Dorado

Is this real?

Is there really a gold hunting expedition about to take place in the Amazon?????

Am I really part of organizing this?

Look – I’m not even exactly sure how this all came about. One night I was eating with my friend’s family and her dad started telling stories about how he and his brothers used to hunt for gold in the Amazon. His eyes got real wide when he told me about their 6 day boat ride, about the piranhas, about the jungle, and then about finding riverbanks mixed with sand and sparkling gold dust for as far as their eyes could see.

A month later, he handed me a flyer to proofread. It described this very tour. When I asked him if I could help, he laughed and said: “Help, you’re the translator.” And that was that.

And like all great stories, things just get better the more you share them. And that’s how we end up here. Let this blog be a direct link for all you armchair travelers and hopefully, maybe we’ll see some of you on the next tour.

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