Looks can really kill...even a flower

It's 6:12am on Friday morning...to be honest I had to recheck my watch to tell what day it was...see we have been on the most amazing hike over the past three days in the mountains of Colombia and at this very moment I am looking at a flower called Burundanga. This particular flower is one of the most poisonous in the world, in fact if you approach it and take deep breaths it will cause you to faint and on occasion induce a coma!!
It's no joke, and is often used by thieves to incapacitate a victim, robbing them of everything up to they're very underwear!
If I look down beyond the flower there is the most precious river that we swam in yesterday afternoon after yesterday's grueling 6-hour hike.. The water here flows like a speeding train and only gets diverted with the 10 ton, 40 foot rocks that line the river bed. Even so the massive boulders are etched with the water's constant collision that has created grooves so deep that they appear to be doorways into these tremendous stones...
If I look left there are bananas littering the ground and huge trees that still have the fruit intact...ya think to yourself..."Does chiquita banana company ever think about making deeper acquisitions of they're banana empire and if they did would they ever try to enter this paradise and steal these pure fruits that have naturally grown here for centuries giving life to animals of all sorts, indigineous passers by that have walked these lands time and time again"
If I look behind me there are jungle trees as high as the sky , literally because the clouds actually swallow them up before you can see the tops of the trees...the cloud forest gives such a magical and mysterious air to everything around...to the point that you cannot help but imagine all of the stories that have occurred in this landscape or the countless regions that appear as virgin as this very one!
You see we are on the 5 day hike and as a result we know that so many other people over the past 25 years have passed so very close to here, each with they're very own tale to tell...I love the fact that I can keep mine secret and that only the trees, water, air, rocks, ground have overheard me talking aloud as I sit here just thinking about life for a while...a tear rolls down my cheek now and my throat feels a lump as big as the frog that was singing earlier, as I imagine how good life is and how lucky I am to be here with all of this....

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