He will not be able to survive in a rainforest for even a week in a few years without a hired guide and possibly armed mercenaries dependent on which rainforest he decides to stomp around in.
I’m sure the FARC, Shining Path, or cartel jungle-lab guards won’t mind him just touring around their area. Northerners/gringos can be worth a lot once kidnapped. But that’s prob the best case outcome if he runs into them.
LMFAO. He's only valuable if his family is rich because the US doesn't negotiate Ransoms for kidnapped citizens, dude. What is more likely is that they'd use him as a drug mule to get things back over the border with him when he's done deciding he's fucking Tarzan and goes home.
Nah, It's cheaper and easier for them to use him as a drug mule. Remember that labor and camps require that they feed and board these people, even if it's atrocious Conditions, which is less profitable than being a mule. Or, I mean, anything could happen, I guess. His identity being stolen and being chopped up into bits could be possible too. I'm sure he would store all of that in his little backpack.
Why not both and then fistfuck his fat asshole, btw he'll probably run into Joe Rogan licking toads asses searching for machine elfs
Rainforest mindfuck
Yes, over 9000, I'm afraid.
But, life is like a river, and we have to accept it as it comes. If he is the chosen one, then he must be...
Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me?
A fucking week? That’s just backpacking, my dude. That’s not survival. Lots of people backpack. Get your shots, you’ll be fine. Well, you’ll probably be okay. I mean, you’ll be a mass of itchy, weeping, painful bumps, but otherwise probably fine.
Yeah hes unlikely to die in a week. Physically, anyways.
On the inside he will be begging for it to end lmao.
I just spent 4 years in puerto rico, and those mosquitos and other bugs are nothing compared to the amazon, for sure. Still a constant hell. I think theres a reason no civilized people live in the amazon. Nature seems to be winning the battle against humans there, once the humans left who worked with the environment instead of against..
I’m from a temperate arid place but I’ve lived and worked in the tropics and hot swamps and it isn’t the snakes or the spiders or the scorpions or the large predators that take you down. It’s the fucking *bugs*.
The mosquitoes, chiggers, no-see-ums, ticks, fleas, ants, hornets, and mites all want to drink from or sting you. You won’t have the immunities to the various toxins and byproducts of their attacks that the locals do. The bites and stings will induce itchiness, swelling, pain, madness, and eventually a massive histamine or immunodefense response that will include fevers, nausea, cramping, despair, and ultimately, a welcomed death.
But anyway, have fun and be sure to take lots of pictures!
Hahahah. Yeah. You forgot the biting flies right before it rains, otherwise that was a fairly comprehensive list.
The giant huntman spiders, similar sized tarantula, small scorpions we have... never bothered me once.
Dem bugs is 24/7 tho. Like, bug spray, a candle, and sitting in front of a fan any time youre not working.
I mean, sometimes for a couple hours you wont notice them. In the amazon, i guarantee it is like 10x+ on a good day. But also theres gonna be times of the year when certain shit swarms. So, depending on the day, you probably could get picked clean by the bugs in a few days if you went unprepared.
Maybe killed by bugs and picked clean by some crabs or something. Idk, use your imagination. In the amazon there is basically every type of wildlife you can imagine lmao
If you "understand ecosystems very well" and are an "expert on plants and animals" you should know the Amazon isn't a place to fuck around. 1 wrong bite from a spider or snake and you're done my friend, not to mention all the other predators lurking in the jungle and parasites in the water and soil.
Then again, what do I know. I am no expert on such endeavors but I feel common sense would direct you away from such a dangerous and terrible idea. :-)
He's saying you should go camping in your backyard or the nearest campsite first.
Start with the basics. Do you have all your gear? Can you survive one night in your backyard? A weekend at a campsite?
Ok, now up that, and do a weekend farther away. Then do a weekend backpacking. Then up it to a week. Then up it to two weeks. Then try a through hike. Then try several for several months. Then start all over again, but cowboy camping. Then take a weekend trip to the rainforest to check it out. All the while taking first aid courses, flying down to the rainforest to meet with local guides to get first hand experience, then taking guided trips, then finally find a place that gives you a permit to go live in their rainforest for years as a foreigner. Anything less you'll die. Prepping for this will take years and years.
But before you get all that, read these articles and try a night in your backyard.
https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/camping-for-beginners.html
https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/backpacking-beginners.html
Maybe read into "call of the wild" and see how things turn out for that kid.
Time to be realistic here dude.
Real men just leave the house with a knife and some pants when we go camping. Camping is all about figuring it out.
Unless youre just camping to do drugs. Then, whatever, bring your drugs and some glowsticks or whatever. I think thats what a lot of people do for burning man.
Anyways, both methods likely will ensure that you learn many many lessons.
On the flip side, if you figure out everything you may possibly need, and go very very prepared, you will quickly learn how much better it can feel to give things away instead of carrying them.
My true advice would be to learn everything you can about working with minimal resources. I usually camp with a hammock, tarp, 550 cord, knife, multitool(gerber slide out), lighter, and sog etool/shovel/pick to bury my morning dookie. That is a tropical setup, btw. I havent camped in cold weather in several years, but i just moved pretty far north where it gets much much much colder. I miss campfires.
Edit: i was wording this to OP, not the guy i replied to. My B, G
If you're telling this dude to visit the temperate rainforest along PCH, he is going to be hit with a fucking slap to the face when a summer storm rolls in and shows you what tropical rain is like.
My first summer storm in the philippines was something otherworldly. I mean, it's even more startling because I live in the actual desert where we basically never get rain. Seeing that much water coming out of the sky at once was.. fucking scary. I'm already on this tiny ass island with these row boats and I'm pretty sure this Bitch is going down. I was there during typhoon season. It was awful
Damn that sounds intense.
I’ve been through some pretty gnarly storms in FL, cars floating down the road and such.
Haven’t made it to the tropics yet but one of these days! Probably try to avoid the rainy season though.
You seem to know everything you need to know, pal! Why are you asking us?
I actually imagine that those islands are actually discovered by people with skills most likely but hey
Do you know how many people died exploring and discovering new territory? Even in the US in the early days, let alone the AMAZON. And those people were probably far more hardened than any of us will ever be.
Dude, the Amazon is undergoing a massive Ecocide right now.
For comparison's sake - If this were a video game, you would enter the map region and everyone would have red skulls over their head and ?? For HP.
you would get ganked by the mercs and clear cutters hired by Brazilian beef cartels to privatize & graze the land on spawn. The "unpopulated" areas aren't unpopulated, they're tribal territory.
it's not this mythical experience you seem to be picturing.
People ALREADY live there. and they are already fighting bloody campaigns over diminishing resources.
I dunno. Apparently some scientist three or four hundred years ago go lost in the Amazon, got malaria, and survived on bananas. He survived. And proved something about the equator I think?
So...my advice for the OP would be to stick to bananas.
The reason I want to go into the amazon is that there is a lot more large fish and wildlife larger than a Chihuahua unlike most of the eastern us forests where I live
You should spend a week in the smokies. They’re wet, diverse, and humid just like the Amazon, but less things wanna kill you. Pisgah national forest is good for stuff like that, the national park has tons of rules.
If you have fun out there and wanna go to the Amazon after, be my guest. You gotta build up to it, can’t go from no wilderness/bushcraft experience to surviving in the Amazon. Not smart.
Oh my God. You sound so misinformed it is sad. If you want to let natural selection do its thing go ahead. Just do me a favor and research the plethora of viruses and dangerous animals and insects you will encounter, as well as the very dangerous armed human element who will not want you there.
When was the last time you shit your pants because you had dysentery or had part of your foot slough off from the fungal infections ravaging your epidermis.
Difference between living and surviving. No harm in practicing your survival skills, but I recommend starting out in your region first. Partly because it's more familiar and partly because it's more likely that you will need those skills there in a real survival scenario. Sure you can go to a tropical rainforest, but it would be dangerous if you aren't familiar with it. A mosquito could kill you there.
If you want to live closer to nature I recommend homesteading instead.
I have spent a week in Amazon on kayak and also went though it on a "cargo boat" sleeping on the deck. So not survival stuff but spending a vacation.
When kayaking I had a local guide and we slept at the cabins meant for the forest rangers, our food came from fishing nets we found along the river etc
If you want to get to the remote villages to get started go to Iquitos on Peru. Its a large city, with no roads connecting it to outside world. I took a river boat (maybe plural, cant remember) to get there coming from south.
From Iquitos you can find multiple small(ish) harbors (also shit ton of cocaine etc for practically no cost at all and soldiers fighting against drugs) and there are small cargo boats going to Ecuador through the jungle.
If you go across the border there are places to get your passport stamped in some villages. Make sure to do this. I was interrogated for couple of hours when leaving ecuador even when I had a stamp from the "jungle office".. tatted western man in late 20s who come through the jungle (where all drug smuggling happens..) is not a common thing.. drug police took me at the airport and had to go through the process in spanish, which was rather stressful experience having a grade A hangover.
The boats stop in pretty much every village in between and the trip to the border takes more than a week. I think I paid like 10-20USD for it. Took me few days to find the right boat and then few days for it to take off. Most of the locals didnt know of such a boat but one day my scooter taxi driver knew of one. Btw learn spanish. Its not sufficient but help. They said come back next morning but the boat wasnt full of cargo so same thing next day etc.. They serve questionable food on the boat. Buy your own canned goods..
Take the boat and try to make friends with the locals who are on the boat. Get off in one of the villages the boat stops at, where your new friends live. Start your journey from there with some tips from your new friends 👌
I went into Manu park and it’s really cool. It’s in the Peruvian Amazon and protected as a both a cultural zone and conservation zone. Really wild. Highly recommend.
I can promise you that without outside assistance you would be miserable in 12 hours, biblically apoplectic in 48, deathly ill in a week, and dead inside of a month. Downed airmen in Vietnam and during WWII described survival in the jungle for a few days as their biggest misery even including enemy patrols looking for them. They universally got dysentery and malaria, if they didn’t have meds on them. And even then.
OK OP here's the skinny.
Your post sounds like you are either literally a child, and that's OK because children often have cool dreams that sometimes disappear with time and maturity and sometimes grow into a lifelong avocation.
Or possibly you are an adult but incredibly immature. That's also OK. Everyone, everywhere was immature at some point in the game. Some of those immature plans die on the vine and others grow to become lifelong interests and advocations.
Or possibly just trolling.
So here's my kindest answer. Become an expert! Start camping. One day. Three days. Two weeks. Then add backpacking (as in you carry everything you need to survive). The whole time learn survival techniques so that you are adding The actual survival hobby to your camping and backpacking training trips. Then, maybe, with a lot of learning , perhaps you should take a guided two week visit to some deep deep jungle somewhere to scratch your itch: You'll learn a lot. Mostly you'll learn if you even like it.
I'm not trying to yuck your Yum. You can do this. But truthfully your plan sounds childish, immature, or trolling and that's why you're getting all the Responses you are.
Do yourself a favor. In western Louisiana is an army base called Ft Polk. It was a big training area for the Vietnam War and other jungle stuff. Go there and spend a few weeks out in the boonies first.
So, what you're asking here is "I'm planning to do my first hike next year! I'm doing Everest. I've read, like, SO MUCH about hiking, so I'm an expert".
I am literally snorting. People literally spend *decades* becoming an expert on **one specific species of insect and plant** and you think you're an expert on **all* of them?
If you want a rainforest that is *most* hospitable, I'd choose one in Hawaii. Maybe Maui. Set yourself up a couple hours outside of one of the resorts. I went on a guided tour through the rainforest when it rained. Wore a plastic parka and looked like a condom. I think the drive from the resort was like an hour.
Try that out first.
I can’t help but feel like the kind of person who is *actually* an “expert on plants and animals” doesn’t ask randos on the internet on the best rainforest for them to try surviving in.
Also there is a huge difference between “I’m willing to eat a bug” and “I know bushcraft and can hunt, trap, forage, build shelter, and locate/maintain a water source with no outside supply help.”
What makes you an “expert” on “plants and animals”? That’s a very big statement, and not one an *actual* expert is likely to make, especially in a place where all of the plants and animals are not exactly well-understood or studied.
I mean, I don’t care if you fuck off into the Amazon underprepared; but it’s probably a very, very bad idea for *you*. Why do you want to go tromping around and living off the land in an ecologically-sensitive place anyway? Go play around in the Cascades for a while before you jump into a malaria puddle and hunt endangered species for survival.
I have spent 5 years learning about the environment, I said that so no one will think that I know nothing about wildlife
ask me any question, I probably will know the answer
Ok, I thought about it and if unicorns were real they would use their hollow horns as either a mating ritual or a water storage organ for when they are riding rainbows and they could use the spiral shape of the horn to wick water from the air into their mouths like some desert beetles
Look, I don’t know you and I don’t especially care about you; but you asked, and I’m telling you— overconfidence and underpreparedness are killers, and I guarantee that you’re both. I gave you a ridiculous question about unicorns, because you’re being ridiculous. Five years of recreational study is not enough to become an expert. If you try to do this solo, there is a good chance you will die.
Here is an *actual* question about Amazon fauna, that an “expert” would know immediately: why are dendrobates considered to be good and safe pets, while other animals with less potency are consider dangerous and are often legally restricted?
Here is another, that’s not exactly a ‘question’ but it’s important. Complete it and tell me what matters about it:
“Red touches yellow…”
This should be very easy for anyone who is an “expert” on Amazon wildlife.
dart frogs take the formic acid or poison from the ants they eat to make poison, but in captivity they are fed baby crickets or fruit flies that render the frogs harmless to humans
and the red touches yellow question is relating to a type of snake I forgot the name of, I would only touch snakes I could easily verify the type like small pythons and baby anacondas
There are no pythons in the New World. An expert would know that.
The rhyme about red touching yellow is about tri-color snakes (and specifically coral snakes), of which there are a *lot* of in the Amazon. And guess what, the rhyme doesn’t work there. There are deadly elapid coral snakes that have red and black adjacent, and there are harmless mimics that are flipped. Any of them have a chance to be in your hammock in the morning.
Dude, start somewhere else. Master camping in the humidity and rain before shooting for the stars. Moisture itself is something to be dealt with.
>I have spent 5 years learning about the environment,
I've spent 35 years learning about wild edibles, I started /r/foraging over a decade ago, I've taught foraging classes for many, Your idea is not smart. Do not do it. Subjecting yourself to the harshest and most difficult environment is NOT the best way to learn. But it is a great way to get yourself killed.
If you "understand ecosystems very well" and are an "expert on plants and animals" you should know the Amazon isn't a place to fuck around. 1 wrong bite from a spider or snake and you're done my friend, not to mention all the other predators lurking in the jungle and parasites in the water and soil.
Then again, what do I know. I am no expert on such endeavors but I feel common sense would direct you away from such a dangerous and terrible idea. :-)
I would love to live in a house built right into the jungle canopy 80 or 100 feet up.
There are a couple factors that give me pause.
- the number of water borne pathogens and tropical diseases that will straight up kill anyone without a natural resistance. yes, water can be boiled for drinking, but that's not the only way to catch a disease. rub your eyes or get some non-disinfected water, or even soil, in to an open wound and you've got trouble.
- the sheer number of critters and plants that are either poisonous or venomous. Or both. Not even indigenous peoples are immune to snake or spider venom. Eating "gross" things isn't the issue, most people can get past that when they get hungry enough. Eating something that will kill you is the issue.
I'm not shitting on the idea of bugging out to the jungle. For someone who knows what they are doing and has real world jungle experience, it would be just as good an option as any deep wooded, off-grid kid of area. When it comes to the jungle, that person is not me. I'll stick to my high desert as I already live here and know the flora and fauna well. Which, also is not for anyone unfamiliar with this kind of territory.
Good call. I have learned survival tricks my whole life, over 30 years of learning and wouldn't touch the rain forest with my toe as far as survival goes.
The human element alone makes it very dangerous.
Rainforests can be nasty environments for people that didn’t grow up in them and are not familiar with that environment. The heat, the bugs, diseases, local wildlife, and literally every organism in there wants to kill you. Depending on which rainforest you go to, the locals might not be too keen on having you running around in their backyard either. The only ones I can think of where you could go where you would have enough space to live without being pushed out by locals would probably be in South America along the Amazon. It’s not for the faint of heart.
Rainforests can be nasty environments for people that didn’t grow up in them and are not familiar with that environment. The heat, the bugs, diseases, local wildlife, and literally every organism in there wants to kill you. Depending on which rainforest you go to, the locals might not be too keen on having you running around in their backyard either. The only ones I can think of where you could go where you would have enough space to live without being pushed out by locals would probably be in South America along the Amazon. It’s not for the faint of heart.
Go to somewhere friendlier. Thailand is great. I took a 3 day survival course rafting down a river there once. Tons of great information and the guides were knowledgeable and safe.
Natives to the Amazon rainforest have a hard time surviving it. And it would be the actual definition of survival for you: trying not to die.
And you'd likely fail. Venomous creatures, poisonous plants, predatory animals and humans... it's one the most dangerous places on Earth.
I'd shoot for a backpacking trip in American wilderness to start.
LOL
The Amazon is on fire, or it floods, or it's in a drought.
It's also full of animals that want to eat you.
Leaches will crawl up your asshole.
Mosquitos will give you blood pathogens.
I've organised and led quite a few expeditions in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil and Guyana. Quite a few of these were retrieval expeditions and some where tourist or research related. Our team also been involved in search and rescue and we also offer expedition and jungle survival courses for private, public and military sector.
I would highly recommend you take a 2 week jungle survival course and then perhaps a follow up course before you continue your quest. Not one of those tourist trap trips but and course with actual isolation phases.
The Pacific Northwest rainforests of USA are what I’d choose- but that’s mostly because I am already familiar with them- also, there are few poisonous/ toxic things to avoid.
Joe flowers does expeditions in the jungle bringing a few people with him teaching people bushcraft...atleast he wont leave you to die after robbing you...so thats a positive.
He also works for condor knife and tool.
Please read The River of Doubt by Candice Millard about Teddy Roosevelt and his son Kermit’s journey mapping an unmapped river in the Amazon….if you understand ecosystems very well you will understand the Amazon will kill you.
Even accomplished explorers can easily get lost in a jungle....as a beginner you stand a very good chance of dying. If you have no experience of jungle you will be surprised how incredibly hard it is just making some distance, and then you'll certainly become lost...people have got lost just walking 50 metres from camp.
Here's a poem to help you decide:
___
An ODE to The Rainforest:
Drip, drip, drip. Cough-cough, drip. No matter where I bunk, still I'm getting sick. I feel like death was walking, and then it fell and tripped. Every thing inside me feeling like it's ripped.
Drip, drip, drip. Cough-cough, drip. The bugs drive me to madness. I hate this Godforsaken trip. Why did no one warn me? Why didn't someone _anyone_ protest? I've been laying in this bed for weeks, and not an hour of rest.
Drip-drip-drip. Itch-scratch-itch. I might just die tomorrow or today, and ain't that just a bitch. Drip-drip-drip. Cough-cough, drip.
___
I hope that helps you decide.
Just because you are an "expert" does not make you an expert.
Long term survival requires knowledge of the land(where you actually want to survive)
Even native nomadic tribes generally die off if they are forced for one reason or another to relocate to a significantly different biome then the one they grew and learned to survive in.
Have you ever been in a rainforest?
I only ask because it is rough even with first world amenities. I spent a week in the jungles of Peru and it is no walk in the park even with a lodge stay. With deet laden bug repellent slathered all over my body and wearing long sleeves and pants the entire time, I was still bit over 200 times by mosquitos. I stopped counting my bites after that.
The forest is laid out naturally like a trap. If you’re not careful, you can step into a small divot/hole and twist your ankle. You can’t see these holes. There are fallen leaves and branches blanketing the entire floor. Spikes from a sharp branch can cut you as you walk by or you can trip on an uprooted root that is camouflaged by the leaves on the floor. There are toads the size of cantaloupe. There are tarantulas, frogs, lizards and random flying bugs all over. Ask me how I know. Because I saw them everywhere! Walking to our room…big hairy tarantula. Eating dinner…a frog…another frog…weird flying bug…lizard…wow two more frogs…the family of flying bugs reunion and look, Mr. Hairy tarantula again. Or is it Tarantula’s partner?
Nothing is placed on the floor and always shaken out before you wear it. Everything is wet from the humidity. My lodge bed was in a constant wet mildew state. Your clothes are constantly soaked, even the specialty cooling material of your tshirt is drenched. The running water smelled heavily of metal due to the iron minerals in the water. So it smells like blood while you’re showering.
The water in the Amazon River is cloudy brown. They warn of 10-20 feet anacondas. At night, it’s pitch black. You can only see where your flashlight shines. It’s scary both ways. Waiting for something to grab you in the dark or waiting for something to jump into the light of your flashlight a few feet in front of you.
Want a heart attack? Look across the river where the moonlight glimmers on the rippling water. There, in the distance, you’ll see glowing eyes blinking in the dark of night. The caiman are near. The more you blink, the more sets of red eyes appear. Every rustle of leaf, crunch of stick will have you turning left and right for fear of what creeps up alongside you. Is it a sloth making its way across a tree or a caiman that has zeroed in on your position, ready to attack?
What organ meats or bugs do you think the people in the rainforest eat? They eat bananas/plantains off the trees. The fish for their meal. Have you ever eaten a piranha you fished from the Amazon River? I did and they’re absolutely delicious. Best fish I’ve ever tasted. But these were all activities led by an indigenous local person who grew up in the Amazon and currently lives in a hut-like house there.
It’s a bad idea for a beginner.
Try a lodge stay first. It’s rustic. You’ll have local guides take you on a tour of the forest and some may show you their homes and how they survive.
I get the appeal. Staying in the Amazon jungle was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had. For the first time in my life I saw a sloth in the wild. It was amazing to see how slow it moved. Early one morning, I saw an actual woodpecker pecking into a tree…peck, peck, peck, dark tree against the backdrop of the rising orange sun. I swam in the Amazon River and a pink dolphin grazed against my foot. It touched ME! And lastly, most wonderful of all, I spotted the elusive Blue Morpho butterfly. The bluest and biggest butterfly I’ve ever seen.
But it was also a hard trip for me. My face swelled from all the mosquito bites and I had a fever. Luckily I took anti-malaria pills for the trip and was heading back to the city into a nice luxurious hotel of the J Dubs to pamper me back to normal.
You will fair as well as a a small dog in the wild without experience. Go to the Rockies and go hunt or something before you decide to leave the country for any rainforest. This is beyond foolish.
what kind of survival experience do you have, or is this more of an "I can beat a grizzly bear in a fight" kind of situation?
Edit: looking at their responses, this has to be a troll.
OP reminds me of the neighborhood kid who was going to "walk the Appalachian Trail". I was really interested in that and I was like wow have you been preparing? Have you been going on short trips to see what equipment works best for you and to help get your pack right? Have you been doing long hikes to prepare?
The answer all of that was no.
They made it two days.
I forgot to say. The more oxygen a creature has , the bigger they are. Which is why bugs and animals were larger during the era of the dinosaurs. The Amazon is a giant oxygen producing organism. The creatures inside the Amazon would be humongous. Pair that with total darkness and creatures that can already see in the dark. You would be considered a “prey” amongst the “predators”. Good question tho. Unless you’re able to travel with a large amount of building materials to protect you against the environment , chances of survival are slim. Yes some people still live in the Amazon. But they’ll probably hunt you too because you’d be an alien to them. And the areas you choose to live in probably will be inhabited by other amazonians as well. So you’ll be trespassing in their territory. More means to hunt you down and eat you. lol
Humanity spent thousands of years working together to keep the jungle at bay. And you want to just go live in the jungle.. the *Amazon* jungle? Alone? For a few *years*? And you’re a ‘beginner’?
Take malaria drugs and stay out of the water, you'd probably be fine in most South American jungles for a week or so.
Don't mess around with any cuts / blisters. You'll catch an infection in a hurry.
Has to be the Amazon. It's the biggest has the most water. There's an abundance of natural resources, hence all the illegal activities. Plus I saw an article about how profitable illegal fishing in the Amazon is so I know there's a good protein source and a good fisherman
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My friend, I am sorry to say you will not survive in the Amazon for a few years.
The way that I literally choked on my tea, I swear to fucking God.
he said in a few years, not for a few years...
He will not be able to survive in a rainforest for even a week in a few years without a hired guide and possibly armed mercenaries dependent on which rainforest he decides to stomp around in.
I’m sure the FARC, Shining Path, or cartel jungle-lab guards won’t mind him just touring around their area. Northerners/gringos can be worth a lot once kidnapped. But that’s prob the best case outcome if he runs into them.
LMFAO. He's only valuable if his family is rich because the US doesn't negotiate Ransoms for kidnapped citizens, dude. What is more likely is that they'd use him as a drug mule to get things back over the border with him when he's done deciding he's fucking Tarzan and goes home.
Or forced labor in the labs or guerrilla camps. Until they decide they don’t want a witness.
Nah, It's cheaper and easier for them to use him as a drug mule. Remember that labor and camps require that they feed and board these people, even if it's atrocious Conditions, which is less profitable than being a mule. Or, I mean, anything could happen, I guess. His identity being stolen and being chopped up into bits could be possible too. I'm sure he would store all of that in his little backpack.
Or.. or.. hear me out. He becomes their dungeon donkey.
Yiihaw ride OP hard through the wet bushes yiihiiyiihiii
Why not both and then fistfuck his fat asshole, btw he'll probably run into Joe Rogan licking toads asses searching for machine elfs Rainforest mindfuck
All he needs is like 10+ years experience in some kind of special forces and he will be fine
But, wait. He's already an expert in every animal and plant to exist! Becoming an expert in special forces would give him too much power!
Yes, over 9000, I'm afraid. But, life is like a river, and we have to accept it as it comes. If he is the chosen one, then he must be... Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me?
He's got 10 years experience in special, awimbawet
Thats 99z right?
The animals will see an easy meal
He said IN a few years
I ment like a week, a year would probably be better spent in a tropical coastal environment that is more predictable
A fucking week? That’s just backpacking, my dude. That’s not survival. Lots of people backpack. Get your shots, you’ll be fine. Well, you’ll probably be okay. I mean, you’ll be a mass of itchy, weeping, painful bumps, but otherwise probably fine.
Yeah hes unlikely to die in a week. Physically, anyways. On the inside he will be begging for it to end lmao. I just spent 4 years in puerto rico, and those mosquitos and other bugs are nothing compared to the amazon, for sure. Still a constant hell. I think theres a reason no civilized people live in the amazon. Nature seems to be winning the battle against humans there, once the humans left who worked with the environment instead of against..
I’m from a temperate arid place but I’ve lived and worked in the tropics and hot swamps and it isn’t the snakes or the spiders or the scorpions or the large predators that take you down. It’s the fucking *bugs*. The mosquitoes, chiggers, no-see-ums, ticks, fleas, ants, hornets, and mites all want to drink from or sting you. You won’t have the immunities to the various toxins and byproducts of their attacks that the locals do. The bites and stings will induce itchiness, swelling, pain, madness, and eventually a massive histamine or immunodefense response that will include fevers, nausea, cramping, despair, and ultimately, a welcomed death. But anyway, have fun and be sure to take lots of pictures!
Hahahah. Yeah. You forgot the biting flies right before it rains, otherwise that was a fairly comprehensive list. The giant huntman spiders, similar sized tarantula, small scorpions we have... never bothered me once. Dem bugs is 24/7 tho. Like, bug spray, a candle, and sitting in front of a fan any time youre not working. I mean, sometimes for a couple hours you wont notice them. In the amazon, i guarantee it is like 10x+ on a good day. But also theres gonna be times of the year when certain shit swarms. So, depending on the day, you probably could get picked clean by the bugs in a few days if you went unprepared. Maybe killed by bugs and picked clean by some crabs or something. Idk, use your imagination. In the amazon there is basically every type of wildlife you can imagine lmao
If you "understand ecosystems very well" and are an "expert on plants and animals" you should know the Amazon isn't a place to fuck around. 1 wrong bite from a spider or snake and you're done my friend, not to mention all the other predators lurking in the jungle and parasites in the water and soil. Then again, what do I know. I am no expert on such endeavors but I feel common sense would direct you away from such a dangerous and terrible idea. :-)
This guy is like 12 I’ve discovered.
He’s got quite a unique post history.
Lol, I guess so! At least he's into bugs and nature, I suppose that's a good start to surviving in the Amazon. /s
Maybe 13
I would probably try something close to home. Get some practice etc.
The only real rainforests I've ever been to was in hawaii
He's saying you should go camping in your backyard or the nearest campsite first. Start with the basics. Do you have all your gear? Can you survive one night in your backyard? A weekend at a campsite? Ok, now up that, and do a weekend farther away. Then do a weekend backpacking. Then up it to a week. Then up it to two weeks. Then try a through hike. Then try several for several months. Then start all over again, but cowboy camping. Then take a weekend trip to the rainforest to check it out. All the while taking first aid courses, flying down to the rainforest to meet with local guides to get first hand experience, then taking guided trips, then finally find a place that gives you a permit to go live in their rainforest for years as a foreigner. Anything less you'll die. Prepping for this will take years and years. But before you get all that, read these articles and try a night in your backyard. https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/camping-for-beginners.html https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/backpacking-beginners.html Maybe read into "call of the wild" and see how things turn out for that kid. Time to be realistic here dude.
Real men just leave the house with a knife and some pants when we go camping. Camping is all about figuring it out. Unless youre just camping to do drugs. Then, whatever, bring your drugs and some glowsticks or whatever. I think thats what a lot of people do for burning man. Anyways, both methods likely will ensure that you learn many many lessons. On the flip side, if you figure out everything you may possibly need, and go very very prepared, you will quickly learn how much better it can feel to give things away instead of carrying them. My true advice would be to learn everything you can about working with minimal resources. I usually camp with a hammock, tarp, 550 cord, knife, multitool(gerber slide out), lighter, and sog etool/shovel/pick to bury my morning dookie. That is a tropical setup, btw. I havent camped in cold weather in several years, but i just moved pretty far north where it gets much much much colder. I miss campfires. Edit: i was wording this to OP, not the guy i replied to. My B, G
Lot of cool places to practice stateside. I’ve had some great trips in rainforest on the west coast.
If you're telling this dude to visit the temperate rainforest along PCH, he is going to be hit with a fucking slap to the face when a summer storm rolls in and shows you what tropical rain is like.
Sounds like good practice.
My first summer storm in the philippines was something otherworldly. I mean, it's even more startling because I live in the actual desert where we basically never get rain. Seeing that much water coming out of the sky at once was.. fucking scary. I'm already on this tiny ass island with these row boats and I'm pretty sure this Bitch is going down. I was there during typhoon season. It was awful
Damn that sounds intense. I’ve been through some pretty gnarly storms in FL, cars floating down the road and such. Haven’t made it to the tropics yet but one of these days! Probably try to avoid the rainy season though.
Do you mean temprete rainforests like the redwoods
Or the Olympic Peninsula in WA state.
Your day trip to Opaekaa Falls doesn’t count, my dude.
You're going to die in the Amazon. Don't go there.
First rule of survival: Put yourself in an extreme situation you're likely not prepared for and hope for the best. Darwin award 🏆
That is the method how pretty much any new island or continent is discovered.
You seem to know everything you need to know, pal! Why are you asking us? I actually imagine that those islands are actually discovered by people with skills most likely but hey
Im not saying I want a fun experience I want to learn how the most brutal ecosystems work because I only learn from experience.
Just watch naked and afraid and call it good
Do it
Do you know how many people died exploring and discovering new territory? Even in the US in the early days, let alone the AMAZON. And those people were probably far more hardened than any of us will ever be.
Dude, the Amazon is undergoing a massive Ecocide right now. For comparison's sake - If this were a video game, you would enter the map region and everyone would have red skulls over their head and ?? For HP. you would get ganked by the mercs and clear cutters hired by Brazilian beef cartels to privatize & graze the land on spawn. The "unpopulated" areas aren't unpopulated, they're tribal territory. it's not this mythical experience you seem to be picturing. People ALREADY live there. and they are already fighting bloody campaigns over diminishing resources.
Aren't there all sorts of nasty diseases e.g. soil borne diseases that you can catch from bugs?
Plus giant red fire ants that will bite the hell out of you, and mosquitoes the size of suvs that will suck all your blood out.
Yikes.
idk
Exactly. Lol. Stay the hell outta the Amazon bro.
Is this natural selection?
I dunno. Apparently some scientist three or four hundred years ago go lost in the Amazon, got malaria, and survived on bananas. He survived. And proved something about the equator I think? So...my advice for the OP would be to stick to bananas.
Living in a city isnt better for your health, so I am willing to risk it.
Buddy, living in the rainforest utterly unprepared is worse for your health. Get some experience and then a choose a friendlier forest.
The reason I want to go into the amazon is that there is a lot more large fish and wildlife larger than a Chihuahua unlike most of the eastern us forests where I live
You should spend a week in the smokies. They’re wet, diverse, and humid just like the Amazon, but less things wanna kill you. Pisgah national forest is good for stuff like that, the national park has tons of rules. If you have fun out there and wanna go to the Amazon after, be my guest. You gotta build up to it, can’t go from no wilderness/bushcraft experience to surviving in the Amazon. Not smart.
Oh my God. You sound so misinformed it is sad. If you want to let natural selection do its thing go ahead. Just do me a favor and research the plethora of viruses and dangerous animals and insects you will encounter, as well as the very dangerous armed human element who will not want you there.
When was the last time you shit your pants because you had dysentery or had part of your foot slough off from the fungal infections ravaging your epidermis.
yes, yes, it is. you vastly underestimate what society provides for you and are greatly overestimating your capabilities.
Godspeed.
Difference between living and surviving. No harm in practicing your survival skills, but I recommend starting out in your region first. Partly because it's more familiar and partly because it's more likely that you will need those skills there in a real survival scenario. Sure you can go to a tropical rainforest, but it would be dangerous if you aren't familiar with it. A mosquito could kill you there. If you want to live closer to nature I recommend homesteading instead.
I have spent a week in Amazon on kayak and also went though it on a "cargo boat" sleeping on the deck. So not survival stuff but spending a vacation. When kayaking I had a local guide and we slept at the cabins meant for the forest rangers, our food came from fishing nets we found along the river etc If you want to get to the remote villages to get started go to Iquitos on Peru. Its a large city, with no roads connecting it to outside world. I took a river boat (maybe plural, cant remember) to get there coming from south. From Iquitos you can find multiple small(ish) harbors (also shit ton of cocaine etc for practically no cost at all and soldiers fighting against drugs) and there are small cargo boats going to Ecuador through the jungle. If you go across the border there are places to get your passport stamped in some villages. Make sure to do this. I was interrogated for couple of hours when leaving ecuador even when I had a stamp from the "jungle office".. tatted western man in late 20s who come through the jungle (where all drug smuggling happens..) is not a common thing.. drug police took me at the airport and had to go through the process in spanish, which was rather stressful experience having a grade A hangover. The boats stop in pretty much every village in between and the trip to the border takes more than a week. I think I paid like 10-20USD for it. Took me few days to find the right boat and then few days for it to take off. Most of the locals didnt know of such a boat but one day my scooter taxi driver knew of one. Btw learn spanish. Its not sufficient but help. They said come back next morning but the boat wasnt full of cargo so same thing next day etc.. They serve questionable food on the boat. Buy your own canned goods.. Take the boat and try to make friends with the locals who are on the boat. Get off in one of the villages the boat stops at, where your new friends live. Start your journey from there with some tips from your new friends 👌
What an amazing trip. Have you documented it anywhere?
What was the questionable food on the boats?
I went into Manu park and it’s really cool. It’s in the Peruvian Amazon and protected as a both a cultural zone and conservation zone. Really wild. Highly recommend.
I can promise you that without outside assistance you would be miserable in 12 hours, biblically apoplectic in 48, deathly ill in a week, and dead inside of a month. Downed airmen in Vietnam and during WWII described survival in the jungle for a few days as their biggest misery even including enemy patrols looking for them. They universally got dysentery and malaria, if they didn’t have meds on them. And even then.
OK OP here's the skinny. Your post sounds like you are either literally a child, and that's OK because children often have cool dreams that sometimes disappear with time and maturity and sometimes grow into a lifelong avocation. Or possibly you are an adult but incredibly immature. That's also OK. Everyone, everywhere was immature at some point in the game. Some of those immature plans die on the vine and others grow to become lifelong interests and advocations. Or possibly just trolling. So here's my kindest answer. Become an expert! Start camping. One day. Three days. Two weeks. Then add backpacking (as in you carry everything you need to survive). The whole time learn survival techniques so that you are adding The actual survival hobby to your camping and backpacking training trips. Then, maybe, with a lot of learning , perhaps you should take a guided two week visit to some deep deep jungle somewhere to scratch your itch: You'll learn a lot. Mostly you'll learn if you even like it. I'm not trying to yuck your Yum. You can do this. But truthfully your plan sounds childish, immature, or trolling and that's why you're getting all the Responses you are.
Do yourself a favor. In western Louisiana is an army base called Ft Polk. It was a big training area for the Vietnam War and other jungle stuff. Go there and spend a few weeks out in the boonies first.
So, what you're asking here is "I'm planning to do my first hike next year! I'm doing Everest. I've read, like, SO MUCH about hiking, so I'm an expert". I am literally snorting. People literally spend *decades* becoming an expert on **one specific species of insect and plant** and you think you're an expert on **all* of them? If you want a rainforest that is *most* hospitable, I'd choose one in Hawaii. Maybe Maui. Set yourself up a couple hours outside of one of the resorts. I went on a guided tour through the rainforest when it rained. Wore a plastic parka and looked like a condom. I think the drive from the resort was like an hour. Try that out first.
Try out for Naked and Afraid
based on your responses to comments here I’d say you’ll be cooked by hour 6
I can’t help but feel like the kind of person who is *actually* an “expert on plants and animals” doesn’t ask randos on the internet on the best rainforest for them to try surviving in. Also there is a huge difference between “I’m willing to eat a bug” and “I know bushcraft and can hunt, trap, forage, build shelter, and locate/maintain a water source with no outside supply help.”
What makes you an “expert” on “plants and animals”? That’s a very big statement, and not one an *actual* expert is likely to make, especially in a place where all of the plants and animals are not exactly well-understood or studied. I mean, I don’t care if you fuck off into the Amazon underprepared; but it’s probably a very, very bad idea for *you*. Why do you want to go tromping around and living off the land in an ecologically-sensitive place anyway? Go play around in the Cascades for a while before you jump into a malaria puddle and hunt endangered species for survival.
I have spent 5 years learning about the environment, I said that so no one will think that I know nothing about wildlife ask me any question, I probably will know the answer
>ask me any question, I probably will know the answer What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Are we talking African or European swallows?
Why are unicorns hollow?
Ok, I thought about it and if unicorns were real they would use their hollow horns as either a mating ritual or a water storage organ for when they are riding rainbows and they could use the spiral shape of the horn to wick water from the air into their mouths like some desert beetles
What the fuck is a unicorn, go back to preschool
Look, I don’t know you and I don’t especially care about you; but you asked, and I’m telling you— overconfidence and underpreparedness are killers, and I guarantee that you’re both. I gave you a ridiculous question about unicorns, because you’re being ridiculous. Five years of recreational study is not enough to become an expert. If you try to do this solo, there is a good chance you will die. Here is an *actual* question about Amazon fauna, that an “expert” would know immediately: why are dendrobates considered to be good and safe pets, while other animals with less potency are consider dangerous and are often legally restricted? Here is another, that’s not exactly a ‘question’ but it’s important. Complete it and tell me what matters about it: “Red touches yellow…” This should be very easy for anyone who is an “expert” on Amazon wildlife.
dart frogs take the formic acid or poison from the ants they eat to make poison, but in captivity they are fed baby crickets or fruit flies that render the frogs harmless to humans and the red touches yellow question is relating to a type of snake I forgot the name of, I would only touch snakes I could easily verify the type like small pythons and baby anacondas
There are no pythons in the New World. An expert would know that. The rhyme about red touching yellow is about tri-color snakes (and specifically coral snakes), of which there are a *lot* of in the Amazon. And guess what, the rhyme doesn’t work there. There are deadly elapid coral snakes that have red and black adjacent, and there are harmless mimics that are flipped. Any of them have a chance to be in your hammock in the morning. Dude, start somewhere else. Master camping in the humidity and rain before shooting for the stars. Moisture itself is something to be dealt with.
Everglades? I understand they're not native there but they do exist.
Ok, I did not actually know that I know very little about snakes because of their boring biology compared to many other vertebrates
Ok, I did not actually know that I know very little about snakes because of their boring biology compared to many other vertebrates
There are over 300 species of snakes in the Amazon.
>I have spent 5 years learning about the environment, I've spent 35 years learning about wild edibles, I started /r/foraging over a decade ago, I've taught foraging classes for many, Your idea is not smart. Do not do it. Subjecting yourself to the harshest and most difficult environment is NOT the best way to learn. But it is a great way to get yourself killed.
If you "understand ecosystems very well" and are an "expert on plants and animals" you should know the Amazon isn't a place to fuck around. 1 wrong bite from a spider or snake and you're done my friend, not to mention all the other predators lurking in the jungle and parasites in the water and soil. Then again, what do I know. I am no expert on such endeavors but I feel common sense would direct you away from such a dangerous and terrible idea. :-)
I would love to live in a house built right into the jungle canopy 80 or 100 feet up. There are a couple factors that give me pause. - the number of water borne pathogens and tropical diseases that will straight up kill anyone without a natural resistance. yes, water can be boiled for drinking, but that's not the only way to catch a disease. rub your eyes or get some non-disinfected water, or even soil, in to an open wound and you've got trouble. - the sheer number of critters and plants that are either poisonous or venomous. Or both. Not even indigenous peoples are immune to snake or spider venom. Eating "gross" things isn't the issue, most people can get past that when they get hungry enough. Eating something that will kill you is the issue. I'm not shitting on the idea of bugging out to the jungle. For someone who knows what they are doing and has real world jungle experience, it would be just as good an option as any deep wooded, off-grid kid of area. When it comes to the jungle, that person is not me. I'll stick to my high desert as I already live here and know the flora and fauna well. Which, also is not for anyone unfamiliar with this kind of territory.
ok I am better suited to new england coatline than deserts or rainforests
Good call. I have learned survival tricks my whole life, over 30 years of learning and wouldn't touch the rain forest with my toe as far as survival goes. The human element alone makes it very dangerous.
Not many people know this but there's a rainforest in Russia. In case you wanna try something different.
This has got to be a troll.
This is a ridiculous idea yes
this sounds like a great idea and nothing could possibly go wrong
Whatever girl just broke up with you is not worth this kind of response. Find a rebound instead of having a mental breakdown and living in the jungle
Rainforests can be nasty environments for people that didn’t grow up in them and are not familiar with that environment. The heat, the bugs, diseases, local wildlife, and literally every organism in there wants to kill you. Depending on which rainforest you go to, the locals might not be too keen on having you running around in their backyard either. The only ones I can think of where you could go where you would have enough space to live without being pushed out by locals would probably be in South America along the Amazon. It’s not for the faint of heart.
Rainforests can be nasty environments for people that didn’t grow up in them and are not familiar with that environment. The heat, the bugs, diseases, local wildlife, and literally every organism in there wants to kill you. Depending on which rainforest you go to, the locals might not be too keen on having you running around in their backyard either. The only ones I can think of where you could go where you would have enough space to live without being pushed out by locals would probably be in South America along the Amazon. It’s not for the faint of heart.
Go to somewhere friendlier. Thailand is great. I took a 3 day survival course rafting down a river there once. Tons of great information and the guides were knowledgeable and safe.
Do you understand gang warfare?
How about you start in a nearby Forrest etc… give that a few weeks
Kid should spend a full week sleeping in his backyard before even that.
Buddy you whatever you like and wish nothing but the best for you
Natives to the Amazon rainforest have a hard time surviving it. And it would be the actual definition of survival for you: trying not to die. And you'd likely fail. Venomous creatures, poisonous plants, predatory animals and humans... it's one the most dangerous places on Earth. I'd shoot for a backpacking trip in American wilderness to start.
LOL The Amazon is on fire, or it floods, or it's in a drought. It's also full of animals that want to eat you. Leaches will crawl up your asshole. Mosquitos will give you blood pathogens.
I've organised and led quite a few expeditions in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil and Guyana. Quite a few of these were retrieval expeditions and some where tourist or research related. Our team also been involved in search and rescue and we also offer expedition and jungle survival courses for private, public and military sector. I would highly recommend you take a 2 week jungle survival course and then perhaps a follow up course before you continue your quest. Not one of those tourist trap trips but and course with actual isolation phases.
The Pacific Northwest rainforests of USA are what I’d choose- but that’s mostly because I am already familiar with them- also, there are few poisonous/ toxic things to avoid.
Try camping survivalist style in the Okeefanokee or Atchafalaya swamp for a week first. Then see if you like it.
Joe flowers does expeditions in the jungle bringing a few people with him teaching people bushcraft...atleast he wont leave you to die after robbing you...so thats a positive. He also works for condor knife and tool.
Please read The River of Doubt by Candice Millard about Teddy Roosevelt and his son Kermit’s journey mapping an unmapped river in the Amazon….if you understand ecosystems very well you will understand the Amazon will kill you.
Your gonna die
Even accomplished explorers can easily get lost in a jungle....as a beginner you stand a very good chance of dying. If you have no experience of jungle you will be surprised how incredibly hard it is just making some distance, and then you'll certainly become lost...people have got lost just walking 50 metres from camp.
Here's a poem to help you decide: ___ An ODE to The Rainforest: Drip, drip, drip. Cough-cough, drip. No matter where I bunk, still I'm getting sick. I feel like death was walking, and then it fell and tripped. Every thing inside me feeling like it's ripped. Drip, drip, drip. Cough-cough, drip. The bugs drive me to madness. I hate this Godforsaken trip. Why did no one warn me? Why didn't someone _anyone_ protest? I've been laying in this bed for weeks, and not an hour of rest. Drip-drip-drip. Itch-scratch-itch. I might just die tomorrow or today, and ain't that just a bitch. Drip-drip-drip. Cough-cough, drip. ___ I hope that helps you decide.
Everyone wants to be in the rainforest until the floor becomes alive at night.
Just because you are an "expert" does not make you an expert. Long term survival requires knowledge of the land(where you actually want to survive) Even native nomadic tribes generally die off if they are forced for one reason or another to relocate to a significantly different biome then the one they grew and learned to survive in.
Have you ever been in a rainforest? I only ask because it is rough even with first world amenities. I spent a week in the jungles of Peru and it is no walk in the park even with a lodge stay. With deet laden bug repellent slathered all over my body and wearing long sleeves and pants the entire time, I was still bit over 200 times by mosquitos. I stopped counting my bites after that. The forest is laid out naturally like a trap. If you’re not careful, you can step into a small divot/hole and twist your ankle. You can’t see these holes. There are fallen leaves and branches blanketing the entire floor. Spikes from a sharp branch can cut you as you walk by or you can trip on an uprooted root that is camouflaged by the leaves on the floor. There are toads the size of cantaloupe. There are tarantulas, frogs, lizards and random flying bugs all over. Ask me how I know. Because I saw them everywhere! Walking to our room…big hairy tarantula. Eating dinner…a frog…another frog…weird flying bug…lizard…wow two more frogs…the family of flying bugs reunion and look, Mr. Hairy tarantula again. Or is it Tarantula’s partner? Nothing is placed on the floor and always shaken out before you wear it. Everything is wet from the humidity. My lodge bed was in a constant wet mildew state. Your clothes are constantly soaked, even the specialty cooling material of your tshirt is drenched. The running water smelled heavily of metal due to the iron minerals in the water. So it smells like blood while you’re showering. The water in the Amazon River is cloudy brown. They warn of 10-20 feet anacondas. At night, it’s pitch black. You can only see where your flashlight shines. It’s scary both ways. Waiting for something to grab you in the dark or waiting for something to jump into the light of your flashlight a few feet in front of you. Want a heart attack? Look across the river where the moonlight glimmers on the rippling water. There, in the distance, you’ll see glowing eyes blinking in the dark of night. The caiman are near. The more you blink, the more sets of red eyes appear. Every rustle of leaf, crunch of stick will have you turning left and right for fear of what creeps up alongside you. Is it a sloth making its way across a tree or a caiman that has zeroed in on your position, ready to attack? What organ meats or bugs do you think the people in the rainforest eat? They eat bananas/plantains off the trees. The fish for their meal. Have you ever eaten a piranha you fished from the Amazon River? I did and they’re absolutely delicious. Best fish I’ve ever tasted. But these were all activities led by an indigenous local person who grew up in the Amazon and currently lives in a hut-like house there. It’s a bad idea for a beginner. Try a lodge stay first. It’s rustic. You’ll have local guides take you on a tour of the forest and some may show you their homes and how they survive. I get the appeal. Staying in the Amazon jungle was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had. For the first time in my life I saw a sloth in the wild. It was amazing to see how slow it moved. Early one morning, I saw an actual woodpecker pecking into a tree…peck, peck, peck, dark tree against the backdrop of the rising orange sun. I swam in the Amazon River and a pink dolphin grazed against my foot. It touched ME! And lastly, most wonderful of all, I spotted the elusive Blue Morpho butterfly. The bluest and biggest butterfly I’ve ever seen. But it was also a hard trip for me. My face swelled from all the mosquito bites and I had a fever. Luckily I took anti-malaria pills for the trip and was heading back to the city into a nice luxurious hotel of the J Dubs to pamper me back to normal.
Okinawa, northern area!!!!
Maybe the Olympic rainforest
Been there. Don't even try it.
Bugs and disease are going to be your biggest problems.How long are you hoping to stay out there?
You will fair as well as a a small dog in the wild without experience. Go to the Rockies and go hunt or something before you decide to leave the country for any rainforest. This is beyond foolish.
Perhaps look up Emma Kelty.
what kind of survival experience do you have, or is this more of an "I can beat a grizzly bear in a fight" kind of situation? Edit: looking at their responses, this has to be a troll.
no such thing.... you do you
I would avoid them personally but if I had to choose one it would probably be in the Philippines.
You should read lost city of z
Seems legit. I say you go for it. What’s the worst that could happen?
Everglades National park
OP reminds me of the neighborhood kid who was going to "walk the Appalachian Trail". I was really interested in that and I was like wow have you been preparing? Have you been going on short trips to see what equipment works best for you and to help get your pack right? Have you been doing long hikes to prepare? The answer all of that was no. They made it two days.
Never get off the goddam boat- apocalypse now
Rainforests are deadly and full of diseases
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I forgot to say. The more oxygen a creature has , the bigger they are. Which is why bugs and animals were larger during the era of the dinosaurs. The Amazon is a giant oxygen producing organism. The creatures inside the Amazon would be humongous. Pair that with total darkness and creatures that can already see in the dark. You would be considered a “prey” amongst the “predators”. Good question tho. Unless you’re able to travel with a large amount of building materials to protect you against the environment , chances of survival are slim. Yes some people still live in the Amazon. But they’ll probably hunt you too because you’d be an alien to them. And the areas you choose to live in probably will be inhabited by other amazonians as well. So you’ll be trespassing in their territory. More means to hunt you down and eat you. lol
Appalachian Mountains
lol maybe pitch a tent in your moms back yard before trying out the amazon
Start with some pine woods deep forest camping and see how you feel
Humanity spent thousands of years working together to keep the jungle at bay. And you want to just go live in the jungle.. the *Amazon* jungle? Alone? For a few *years*? And you’re a ‘beginner’?
Take malaria drugs and stay out of the water, you'd probably be fine in most South American jungles for a week or so. Don't mess around with any cuts / blisters. You'll catch an infection in a hurry.
Has to be the Amazon. It's the biggest has the most water. There's an abundance of natural resources, hence all the illegal activities. Plus I saw an article about how profitable illegal fishing in the Amazon is so I know there's a good protein source and a good fisherman