ow to Make Pemmican The Ultimate Survival Food
Invented by the natives of North America.
Pemmican was used by Indian scouts as well as early western explorers.
These people spent a great deal of time on the go and depended on having portable, high-energy, highly nutritious, and filling foods that would last for long periods of time without refrigeration.
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People really should avert their gaze from the modern survival thinking for just a bit and also look at
How folks 150 years ago did it
These guys were the last generation to practice basic things-for a living-that we call survival skills now.
Survival Things Our Great Grandfathers Did Or Built Around The House!
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Life here is far away from our usual urban infrastructure. The roads, telephones, internet, supermarkets, hot water and other luxuries that we can so often think of as necessary aren’t available. In their place we find conversations over candlelight and wild creatures awakening come first morning light – a sort of organic alarm clock, if you will.
1. Train your eye
Cloudy waters, overgrown banks and an overwhelming stillness might, to the untrained eye, suggest there is little to see. The keen observer will, however, discover the many wonders of travel to the Amazon in Ecuador. Pink dolphins, piranhas, anacondas, caimans, electric eels, turtles and countless other creatures can be found lurking in the waters.
In the air, colorful butterflies take to the skies and birds flutter incessantly through the trees. Monkeys, perched upon trees, stare incredulously down at curious travelers. Spiders, scorpions, frogs, crickets, salamanders, caterpillars, beetles and much more scutter through the long grass – watch your step.
2. Sharpen your reactions
Despite their monumental size, anacondas are hard to spot. Photo by Lana.Japan
You will be told tales of caymen attacks. They will scare you. You’ll go out at night with just flashlights to guide you and the knowledge that these huge beasts are around somewhere nearby…
Someone – some adventurous type – will go too close to the water. Your boat will rock slightly.
“MIGUEL! NOT SO CLOSE!” Miguel will move back.
“DUCK EVERYONE! QUICKLY!”
Heart in your throat time? You betcha. Be prepared for anything.
3. Strengthen your stomach
Piranha fishing may sound like all fun and games. but it’s actually pretty gruesome. Try having to remove a piranha fish from a hook covered in bloody flesh, after already having heard the story of a fellow traveler that was bitten the night before. He was “lucky” that he only got a gaping flesh wound, he said.
4. Get used to creepy crawlies
Tarantulas abound in the Amazon region of Ecuador. Not only this, but I had the rather unsettling experience of watching my guide wrestle wildly with his clothing, only to see him rip his pants from his body to try and free a trapped scorpion that had stung him. Yikes.
There are many slimy bugs in the Amazon Rainforest. Photo by Geoff Gallice
5. Grow a pair
Want to go swimming in the Amazon? Sounds great, doesn’t it?
Well, it is great, but be warned: these are the same waters that all these anacondas, eels, caimans and piranhas call home.
If you travel to the Amazon River in Ecuador it’d be a real shame to leave without enjoying a quick dip, so be sure to psychologically prepare yourself for the challenge.
Gulp.
6. Learn to trust
If you’ve difficulty trusting people, now might be the time to work on that. Wading through the jungle at night in pitch black is a very intimidating experience, and your entire faith has to be placed in your guide. He’ll lure poisonous spiders from caves and show your scuttling scorpions as you wander around, which is all well and good as long as you trust him to protect you, too.
And you trust that the batteries in the flashlight won’t die.
7. Teach yourself to be still
Or should this be “Get taught to be still”?
With all the connectivity going on in our lives it can be hard to take a moment to just relax and see where you’re at. Not so in the Amazon in Ecuador. Be sure to go on a moonlight stroll to take in the sight of millions of stars that loom over you.
Extra tip: Absorb the local culture and tradition
The visit of a living in Dschugel tribe and their medicine man allowed us a peek into the lives of the local people, and how they live in accordance with nature. You can try hunting with a blowpipe (very hard) and bake some bread with the sweet fruits of the jungle.
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