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Hi, nice to greet you. I’m Yael Yancelson and I’m very excited to be your guide and companion on this magical journey through the senses and imagination.

In this episode we are going to make a trip that excites me a lot, we are going to enjoy nature in all its splendor because thanks to our imaginative power we arrive at an intrepid trip through the Amazon to enjoy a wonderful journey with our 5 senses, so ¿will you accompany me?

The Amazon or Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical forest in the world, and therefore the most important at various levels.

There are 7 million square kilometers, between nine countries, with Brazil and Peru as the ones with the largest extension. The rest of the countries are Bolivia, Colombia, French Guiana, Venezuela, Ecuador and Suriname.I cannot believe that we are facing one of the most biodiverse ecoregions in the world. The Amazon rainforest is also one of the seven natural wonders of the world and plays an important role in regulating the carbon cycle and climate change. Unfortunately we find that logging is one of the big problems here. The Amazon is a true treasure of the natural heritage of our planet. For this reason, human beings have to work to take care of it and protect it at all costs. Currently, together with the oceans, the forests of the Amazon are the main lungs of the Earth. In 2014, 

Fundación Aquae and UNICEF launched “Water for the Peruvian Amazon”. A project that aims to improve access to water and sanitation services in the Amazon basin regions of Loreto and Ucayali. To date, more than 420 dry ecological toilets have been installed, directly benefiting more than 700 families in rural areas. If you are interested, look for more information in this link:

More information at this link: https://www.fundacionaquae.org/agua-para-la-amazonia-peruana/

What an exciting journey, ¿isn’t it? Can you appreciate the power of nature, smell the humidity, enjoy the incomparable view of these landscapes without comparison? We see 427 species of mammals, 1,300 species of birds, 378 species of reptiles, and more than 400 species of amphibians. Some of the animals that live in the Amazon rainforest include jaguars, sloths, river dolphins, macaws, anacondas, glass frogs, and poison dart frogs – which by the way is the most poisonous animal on earth, so we’ll be extra careful. One in ten known species in the world lives in the Amazon rainforest, as does one in five known bird species in the world.

See all this green, did you know that the Amazon is home to up to 80,000 species of plants, of which more than 40,000 play a fundamental role in regulating the global climate and in maintaining the local water cycle.The Amazon is a true treasure of the natural heritage of our planet.

We arrive at where indigenous peoples live who have been immersed since time immemorial. More than a jungle, it is a sanctuary that awaits you to show you life from another perspective.

They show us the “Encontro das Aguas”, where the black waters of the Rio Negro meet the white waters of the Rio Solemos, and excursions extend both up and down.

Near Manaus, there is the Jaú National Park, declared a World Heritage Site, which we are going to visit by boat, so everyone on board.

And after traveling so much to this magical destination, I was already hungry. I tell you that I was talking with people from the region and Suyuay, a very kind girl, told me that the açai fruit -also called asaí- grows in this region, a fruit that is very rich in antioxidants, which favors the absorption of nutrients, and to which anti-aging properties are attributed to it; in fact, the Amazonian Indians who consume it daily are distinguished by their longevity. This berry comes from the Euterpe oleracea palm tree -which grows in Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, French Guiana, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela-, and which can reach 20 meters in height, so harvesting its fruits, which usually done by hand, it becomes a complicated and dangerous task.

Look here we have an açai berry, you can see how it is round, dark purple in color and small in size, about 10 to 14 millimeters. Only 10% of it can be consumed, which is what corresponds to the pulp, the remaining 90% is seed

And he has given me a delicious recipe for the famous Acai Bowl so IN these days, let’s prepare it in my kitchen: IF YOU LIKE TO COOK CLICK THE LINK BELOW AND IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE THE TRAVEL STAY HERE.