Traveling throu the Jungles:Traveling with D.L. Siluk

Traveling throu the Jungles


By Dennis L. Siluk
Sept. 12, 2005

I’ve been to many of them—jungles—so I’ll just mention a few, and then pick out the best of the best, the one I think is best that is. First of all, the Amazon: during the day it is another world, a land of a thousand shades of green; botany up the tuba: evolution in botany: where’s Darwin? And that was a great trip, and the jungle was just that, a rainforest in essence, but it was not the best of the best. As was not the one in Guatemala, with all its Tarzan rope like vines hanging every which way, I even swung on one, climbed it a ting; and the one I was in, in Central Java. On the other hand, I wouldn’t call the Galapagos Islands a rainforest per se, but it’s got enough wildernesses to call it something: diversity I suppose you would call it. Anyhow we are getting close to my number one jungle—the best of the best: hang on.

Venezuela’s Gran Sabana, a huge land area that contains tepuis. Here is where you will find Angel Falls, a most beautiful, 3,000-foot falls, the most stunning I’ve ever seen: straight up the waterfall to its top, again like the flat Tepuis. I climbed 1500-of those feet. Like the Galapagos, it evolved on its own conditions. You can see all over the place, as you travel in the area of Angel Falls, the flat tops of the mountainous tepuis: sandstone mazes so intricate you could get lost in them. In the morning it has falling haze all about: the jungle, the river, the many water falls thereabouts, nine I think in all [in that vicinity], around the mountains, you’d think you were in Conan Doyle’s, “Lost World.” Another point, the clouds seem to be spun around the tops of the Tepuis, and waterfalls, like cotton candy, wrapped nice and neat around everything around them also. I’d had believed dinosaurs, apelike creatures, the missing links lived here, evolution’s leftovers, or rejects, had someone said so. I’m not much on wildlife, but you can’t help but see the uniqueness in the flora and fauna of the species. This is top of the line, for wild places, for what can be called: first person journeys.