Amazon jungle survival training program details:

Available any week of the year. USD 1295 for 7d/6n; add USD 100 for each day beyond one week.

The jungle survival training program takes place in Peru's remote Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo Reserve. This reserve is famous for having the highest diversity of mammals of any place studied in the Amazon. It is located approximately 100 miles SSE of the nearest city, Iquitos.

Some aspects covered:
1. Construction of lean-to.
How to select site, soil and drainage aspects.
What woods to use to set up framework; how to use irapay palm (Lepidocaryum tenue) fronds to rainproof.

2. Construction of fire.
Recognition of wood that will have hard, dry interior even when waterlogged by rainforest humidity; use of copal resin as fire starter.

3. Sources of pure water.
Immature yarina (Phytelephas macrocarpa) fruits; puca huasca vine (Doliocarpus dentatus) and cano huasca vine (Uncaria spp.).

4. Sources of food.
Palm fruits; palm hearts from Euterpe and Iriartea genuses; edible beetle grubs; legumes, especially from Inga genus; using barbasco (Lonchocarpus species) sap to stun fish; canabrava (Gynerium sagittatum) to build fish trap; tamshi vine (Carludovica devergens) to make animal snare.

5. Raft construction.
Recognition of balsa wood, tied together with tamshi vine, oar from remo caspii (Styrax acuminatum).

6. Mosquito repellent.
Made from Nasutitermes termites.

7. Weapons.
Spear from cumaceba (Cesalpina echinata); bow from cashapona (Iriartea exorrhiza), string from chambira (Astrocaryum chambira), arrowshafts from bamboo and arrowheads from cumaceba.

8. Survival Medicines
Venomous snakebite--piripiri leaves (Cyperus articulatus)
Venomous insect--curarina bark (Potalia amara)
Fever--sanango root (Sanango durum)
Disinfectant--pichirina sap (Vismia angusta)
Field dressing--fiber inside bark of machimango (Ceiba species)
Antiparasitical--oje sap (Ficus antihelmintica)
Dysentery or gastrointestinal distress--hierba luisa leaves (Cymbopogon citratus)