When completed, the Lima Peru Los Olivos Temple will be the second temple in Lima and the fourth in Peru. \u00a0(LDS.org image; I\u2019m claiming fair use)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I thoroughly enjoyed our visit to the Peruvian Amazon.\u00a0 It\u2019s a beautiful place, reminding me curiously of Pandora, the alien planet featured in the film Avatar<\/em>.\u00a0 (I realize that James Cameron was inspired, for that fictional cinematic environment, by the rainforest of Queensland in the northeast of Australia.\u00a0 But the Amazon jungle brings that film very much to my mind.)<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
It has restored my faith in jungles, too:\u00a0 I may be mistaken or misremembering, but I seem to recall being disappointed by the rainforest along the Usumacinta River in Guatemala.\u00a0 A small group of us went down quite a few years ago, boating many miles into the Guatemalan jungle lowlands known as the Pet\u00e9n, to camp by an archaeological site at Piedras Negras where some members of the Brigham Young University faculty were digging at the time.\u00a0 (Through the old Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, we had provided a small bit of vital help at a crucial time, so we wanted to see what was going on there.)\u00a0 Anyway, I recall finding the Pet\u00e9n jungle fairly unattractive, lacking color, pretty much olive drab.\u00a0 Not at all what I had expected.\u00a0 (My wife tells me that I commented on it when I first returned, so my memory of that reaction seems to be correct.)<\/p>\n
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Of course, anybody planning to do an Amazon trip like ours needs to be prepared for it:\u00a0 The weather is warm and the humidity is unbelievable \u2013 although it often becomes somewhat cooler and, I think, noticeably less humid in the evening.\u00a0 It rains frequently and it steams the rest of the time.\u00a0 It\u2019s a rainforest<\/em>.\u00a0 So you will get wet, whether from rain or from perspiration.\u00a0 There\u2019s simply no way around it.\u00a0 And to see the villages and canopy walks and ethnobotanical preserves and so forth you need to be prepared to walk.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
But would I recommend it to those willing to sweat, to walk, and to be wet?\u00a0 Absolutely.\u00a0 This was my first time to the Amazon.\u00a0 I liked it very much (as did the rest of our group, so far as I can tell) and I hope that others will have the experience.\u00a0 It\u2019s quite unlike any other place that I\u2019ve ever visited.<\/p>\n
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I specifically endorse our local Amazonian guide Percy, the Explorama company, and the Ceiba Tops Lodge.\u00a0 And, if I may say so, I think that you could do far worse than taking such a tour through the Cruise Lady company.\u00a0 (They are, by the way, the sponsors of our Interpreter Radio Show \u2014 and have been for several months now.\u00a0 I hope that their sponsorship will do some good for them; it\u2019s certainly been a benefit to the Interpreter Foundation.)<\/p>\n
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Written in Lima, Peru, but posted from Cusco<\/p>\n
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