Two Crazy Chicks Productions, in
association with WorldWild PhotoGraphics and What Am I Going to Tell
Your Mother? Productions, is proud to present episode 2 of The Adventures of Yumiko and Eden in Peru…
“It could have been a lot
worse,” Eden says as she dabs Neosporin on Miko’s badly scraped and bruised
right arm. “You could have broken a bone. Or landed on your face – like you did
in Maui.”
Miko winces, both from the
contact and from the memory. That fall had occurred two miles into a hike in
Haleakala National Park. Fortunately, she had not sustained an injury that
immobilized her or required immediate medical attention. Unfortunately, her injuries had been serious enough to ruin the rest of that vacation.
Eden carefully tapes down a
gauze bandage procured from the first aid kit. “If you had been seriously hurt
tonight…” She trails off, recalling the way Miko had gone tumbling into the mud
when the slippery path had crumbled beneath her feet.
Our intrepid heroines are in a
primitive lodge in the cloud forest on the eastern side of the Andes. Getting to
this point, only part of the way to Manu National Park, had required spending
the day crammed into a Mitsubishi SUV packed with the food,
supplies, and personnel (guide, cook, and driver) necessary for a multiday
excursion into a remote portion of the Peruvian Amazon.
Neither of them wants to
contemplate how far they are from decent medical care – and how close they came
to not being able to continue on to Manu.
Though satisfied that Miko’s
wounds have been tended to adequately for the moment, Miko and Eden know that
tomorrow they will be headed to the lowland rainforest, where, in combination
with the humidity, the higher temperatures and even more rustic conditions
increase the risk of infection.
© Eden Feuer
Related link: video diary of the day compiled by fellow traveler John Millspaugh
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Perilous prancing Peruvian plateaus: precarious! But what will come next in the dark tropical jungle?
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