How much time should we spend exploring the Andes Mountains?
Most of our 3,000 mile journey will involve canoeing through the Amazon River, but we will spend the next 10 to 16 days biking from the Pacific Ocean over the Andes Mountains to Yurimaguas, Peru, where the road ends and our paddling journey will begin.
The goal of the Trans-Amazon Expedition is to study how plants, animals and people survive in the Amazon Rainforest, and look at how global warming, and other environmental factors relate to the Amazon. In some ways we are anxious to get to the Amazon Rainforest, but we are also interested in exploring the Andes by bicycle.
We will be traveling through as many ecosystems on our 500 mile journey through the Andes as we would during a trip from the North Pole to the Equator, and we will be passing through many towns full of fascinating people who live in ways that are very different than our lives in the US.
We are excited about reaching the rainforest because of the variety of plants and animals that we will encounter there, but we know the mountains will also a lot of interesting experiences.
Should we try to move quickly through the mountains so that we can enter the rainforest as soon as possible, or should we spend more time on our bike journey so that we can studying the plants, animals, and people of the Andes in more detail?
The goal of the Trans-Amazon Expedition is to study how plants, animals and people survive in the Amazon Rainforest, and look at how global warming, and other environmental factors relate to the Amazon. In some ways we are anxious to get to the Amazon Rainforest, but we are also interested in exploring the Andes by bicycle.
We will be traveling through as many ecosystems on our 500 mile journey through the Andes as we would during a trip from the North Pole to the Equator, and we will be passing through many towns full of fascinating people who live in ways that are very different than our lives in the US.
We are excited about reaching the rainforest because of the variety of plants and animals that we will encounter there, but we know the mountains will also a lot of interesting experiences.
Should we try to move quickly through the mountains so that we can enter the rainforest as soon as possible, or should we spend more time on our bike journey so that we can studying the plants, animals, and people of the Andes in more detail?
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I think you should spend a few extra days in the andes mountains
Posted by: Anonymous | April 2, 2007 7:55 PM
Hearing stories and learning from the people in the Andes mountains would be such a valuable experience. Plus, the mountains will be such a contrast from the rainforest, where you have traveled before.
Posted by: jdalleska | April 2, 2007 9:45 PM
Travel quickly so you can get on with the canoeing
Posted by: Preston | April 2, 2007 11:39 PM
i think you should spend a few extra days in the Ande Mountains because you might never get a chance like this again to see some amazing creatures!
Posted by: Kayla | April 5, 2007 6:03 PM
I think you you should spend at least a day exploring all the things the Andes has to offer!!!
Posted by: g man | April 10, 2007 12:59 PM
I think you should stay longer and explore because, you guys love to explore. And also there's going to be animals there(some are the same from the rainforest and, some are not) but, you will get to see more animals and, discover facts about the animals. -Taylor T.
Posted by: taylor | April 3, 2008 10:33 AM