Adventure To The Jungle

One summer day a group of ten teenage boys embarked on a week-long adventure to the Amazon jungle in Brazil. They had taken a few rides on their American paint horses to get ready for their adventure. They left in the middle of a sunny day. They each took a lantern with them so they could see at night. In a couple of hours, the sky filled with several rain clouds; and it rained, but not too hard. Their trip to the jungle took three hours. They took several breaks to give their horses a rest. The enjoyed singing the songs "Home On The Range" "On Top Of Spaghetti", "Sing A Little Sunshine", "She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain" and "I See The Rain."

When they arrived at the jungle, they were amazed at the many beautiful lush flowers and tall trees. The rain had knocked down some of the trees. In the interior of the jungle they found the monkey brush vine. The flowers they saw were orchids, poinsettias, giant water lilly's, heliconia, bromeliads which produce fruits, and passion fruit flowers. There was mud they had to carefully walk through. They came across the cacao plant which grows 15 to 25 feet high and grows pods with 30-60 cocoa beans. The coffee plants which are thirty feet high produce juicy berries. Inside the berries are coffee beans.

There is a rubber tree. The murumuru is a palm tree with edible fruits. The mahogany trees grow up to 200 feet high. Each stem of the acai palm tree produces four to eight bunches of berries a year. There is also a banana tree and a pitcher plant. Monkeys drink the rainwater that accumulates inside this plant. The Sapodilla is an evergreen found throughout the Amazon jungle.The Kapok trees grow up to 200 feet high and has a diameter of nine to ten feet. The Brazilian nut tree is famous for its fruit.

There are many animals the boys saw in the jungle. They heard the melodic sound of the birds, the hoot hoot of the owls, and the chattering and scampering of the squirrels. There were black bears, lizards, and so many monkeys. As they rode their horse through the jungle, they saw many snakes. They were careful not to frighten them in case the snakes decided to attack them.

A group of Indians frightened the boys. They looked scary as there faces were covered with paint. The indians tied the children's hands behind their backs. There was only a handful of Indians they saw. They were sure there were several other Indians in the tribe. When they told the Indians they were on a week-long adventure in the jungle, they untied their hands. The teens picked bananas from the banana tree and berries from the acai palm tree and shared them with the Indians. They also fed them bread and meat.

Each day in pleasant weather the boys traveled through as much of the jungle as they could. The entire jungle covered 1.4 billion acres. They had no way of seeing the entire Amazon jungle in a week's time. Each night the boys lit their lanterns until they could build a roaring fire which they sat around. They told jokes and shared their feelings about the beautiful jungle. They each received a warm peaceful feeling as they held hands around the fire. They had a special bond which could not be broken. The were so grateful they could have this adventure to the jungle. Tears streamed down their faces. Ever so often they came across an animal hiding in the jungle. They looked forward to telling their parents all about their adventure in the jungle after they rode their horses home which they did.