Tag Archive for jungle

“Real life Tarzan” found alive after disappearing 40 years ago in the Vietnamese jungle (Video Report)

 

Featured Image:  Film poster for episode 12 of the1933  American film serial Tarzan the Fearless.  CREDIT: Employee(s) of Principal Distributing Corporation. SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons. (This work is in the public domain in that it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1977 and without a copyright notice.  Public Domain).

From youtube uploaded by asiana travelmate

Published on Aug 10, 2013

A FATHER and son have been found in a Vietnamese jungle after disappearing 40 years ago during the war with America.
Local officials made contact with Ho Van Thanh, 81, and Ho Van Lang, 41, after villagers reported seeing the pair dressed in loin cloths.

Ruins of Maya City Discovered in Remote Jungle (W/Video)

Featured Image: Lost City in the jungle. SOURCE Unknown.

From Live Science By Megan Gannon, News Editor

Date: 20 June 2013 Time: 04:39 PM ET

An entire Maya city full of pyramids and palatial complexes has been discovered in a remote jungle in southeastern Mexico, archaeologists report.Covered in thick vegetation, the ruins were found in Campeche, a province in the western Yucatán peninsula that’s littered with Maya complexes and artifacts. The newfound site is dubbed Chactún, and it stretches over roughly 54 acres (22 hectares). Researchers think the city was occupied during the Late Classic Maya period, from roughly A.D. 600 until A.D. 900, when the civilization mysteriously collapsed. . . . Read Complete Report

From youtube uploaded by newsbro19· on Jun 21, 2013

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Jungle Trip ~ in search of the ultimate trip: Ayahuasca (full video)

Now here is a guy who whittled out his spot in the world THEN went out and created it. I mean, Getting paid to find the other half of the formula for the ultimate high!

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from Forbidden Knowledge TV

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Alexandra Bruce
October 10, 2012

“When I was in High School in Brazil, one of my aunts was a member of the religious group called Uniao do Vegetal. My grandmother described what their meetings were like. There were children everywhere and everyone there helped to chop and boil the tough jungle vines and roots to make ayahuasca tea.” . . . Alexandra Bruce

Retro: World’s largest cave is big enough to fit a skyscraper and even has its own jungle

Photo: A jungle inside a cave? A roof collapse long ago in Hang Son Doong let in light; plants thickly followed. As “Sweeny” Sewell climbs to the surface, hikers struggle through the wryly named Garden of Edam. CREDIT Carsten Peter SOURCE National Geographic.

from io9.com

BY ALASDAIR WILKINS

 DEC 31, 2010 9:00 AM

Vietnam’s Hang Son Doong cave is the largest in the world, with caverns big enough to fit an entire city street inside them. These awe-inspiring photos take you inside the beautiful, alien world of the Hang Son Doong cave.

The cave was, amazingly enough, only discovered twenty years ago, and is just now being properly surveyed. National Geographic has a fascinating longer piece on the recent explorations of the cave, but the real highlight has to be the nearly two dozen amazing photographs from inside the cave . . . Read Complete Report

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National Geographic: The World’s Biggest Cave: Hang Son Doong (Full HD Video)