Sep 16, 2013
'Letter's from the
Amazon' This amusing and enlightening story is told in
in six short audio episodes.
For those who enjoyed listening to Sal Bolton's
'The Call of Africa', you are invited to follow
her on another adventure, this time into the rain forests of
Ecuador, South America.
Sal, inspired by her
childhood film hero, Indiana Jones, and with only a basic
school-girl knowledge of Spanish, attempts her own adventure into
the Amazon, one of the most mysterious and formidable bio-diverse
ecosystems on the planet; a place that has drawn explorers and
travellers for generations into its dark and sacred heart.
'Letters From The Amazon' hopes to unlock the
reality for us of living and breathing something of this
spell-binding cocooned world that is life in the Amazon; revealing,
as the adventure unfolds, precious glimpses of rare wildlife,
medicines and flora and fauna that are found hidden away in
isolation. It should inspire in us the need to preserve and protect
this unique, irreplaceable endangered
eco-system.
In her own words,
"Hola, welcome to
the jungle. Come on in and listen closely to the hidden calls of
the wild. There's something about saying the word 'jungle' which
immediately invites the thoughts of danger and intense curiosity: a
secret Utopia which only the boldest of spirits will dare to
venture into. So I decided to pack my bag, and go it alone; well,
sort of."
Based on Sal's journal, notes and letters whilst living in the rain
forest, this series highlights some of her most unpredictable,
amusing challenges and mishaps and adventures. Despite being lost
among the indigenous jungle locals and their customs, she makes it
to her destination “with”, as she puts it, “a little help from my
inner guardian angel!”
The episodes follow the emotional highs and lows of the journey of
an English 'Gringa', as she shares with us the reality of living in
wild isolation. We discover the magic and sacredness of the
rainforest as we are carried along on a canoe journey to a remote
place upriver to visit an indigenous shaman.
Sal tells of the marauding, biting mosquitoes, jungle bus rides and
of being caught in an Amazon thunderstorm. Her occasional pangs of
frustration tell, in a humorous way, of her experiences of 'Jungle
Fever', things that go 'bump' in the night and how her loneliness
is healed by a curly tailed friend.
Episode
One: In Dr Jones
Footsteps
Episode Two: Into
The Amazon
Episode Three: Welcome
To The Jungle
Episode Four: The
Enchanted Forest
Episode
Five: Finding Miss Piggy
Coming soon......
Episode Six: Last Boat to Misahualli
Written and Narrated by Sal Bolton
Directed and Produced by Nigel
Killick
Please Buy an Acre for £25 from The Rainforest
Foundation UK
http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/Protect_an_acre_of_rainforest
Jatun Sacha Reserve
http://www.jatunsacha.org/ingles/
World Land Trust
http://www.worldlandtrust.org/projects/buy-acre
Sky Rainforest Rescue
https://rainforestrescue.sky.com/amazon-rainforest
Read more from Sal's online blog about The Amazon
http://lettersfromtheamazon.travellerspoint.com/9/