Jungle Survival

Want the ultimate survival challenge? Jungle survival is what you’re looking for.

This is a hands-on class and, to make sure you have real skills, you’ll actually head off to the jungle to test them with our master instructors.

The Primal Challenge of Jungle Survival

Cold weather conditions can be tough, for certain, but there’s really nothing that matches the jungle in terms of a purely hostile environment. The heat can exhaust your energy. The bugs and animals are persistent threats to both your health and your morale. The terrain can change from rugged and broken to soft, muddy and nearly impassible in a matter of meters.

In the jungle, everything is out to get you, but we can teach you the skills you need to survive.

Before you get the wrong idea; this class isn’t about selling you gear. We’ll teach you how to survive in the Amazon jungle with nothing but a machete and your wits. You’ll get to test those skills in isolation.

Studying to Survive

The jungle survival class is two weeks long. It involves:

Living deep in the Amazon rain forest
Sleeping in jungle hammocks
An instructor training with you around the clock
An isolation phase to test your skills
A visit to the tallest single-drop waterfall in the world

This course will teach you to appreciate the totality of the jungle; both its incredible beauty and diversity, but also the fact that it is a harsh environment and that it most certainly is not kind to the unprepared.

This course will push you to your limits, mentally and physically. If you can develop the positive mindset necessary for surviving the jungle, you will walk away from this with a feeling of accomplishment that few things can match, if anything at all.

Two Weeks in a Real Jungle Scenario

For two weeks, you’ll get to experience the jungles of Guyana, South America. Your instructors will include a Bushmaster and two local Amerindian guides. From their experience and expertise, you’ll learn that, in the jungle, you can make yourself comfortable, even with almost nothing to help in the effort.

Even the journey is an adventure. Before you see one leaf of the massive South American jungle canopy, you’ll travel by light aircraft, by boat and by 4×4. Along the way, you’ll visit a local Amerindian community where you’ll get kitted up and ready to go.

The Training Phase

Once you’re in the jungle, you’ll learn to set up your own basha and hammock site. This will serve as your home for the coming week and, once you’ve got it set up, the training begins.

You’ll learn to find water and make shelter. You’ll learn the skills you need to feed yourself.

You’ll definitely be expanding your palate a bit. Don’t be surprised if you develop something of a taste for bugs, because they’re definitely on the menu. You’ll also learn to build a fire without matches or a lighter, to recognize water vines, to fish in the places piranhas call home and to hunt wild game with a bow and arrow, and much more.

The Isolation Phase

There’s no sense in doing all this training without testing it. There’s no way to simulate a real survival situation, so you’ll get to confront one head-on. Don’t worry, though, your instructor won’t be far away, but don’t expect help unless you really need it.

Your survival challenge will take place in a completely new patch of jungle. You’ll be on your own and won’t have anything other than clothing, your machete, a bow and arrow and a belt kit.

You’ll learn that, even with such limited equipment, your skills count for more than you could have imagined.

A survival challenge, a rite of passage; our jungle survival course is all those things and more. Complete this challenge and you can go back to your normal life knowing that, in what’s genuinely one of the harshest scenarios imaginable, you can not only hold up, but you can thrive.

Once it’s all over, you’ll head back to the eco-lodge to get some rest and relaxation. You’ll get to spend some time having drinks with your guides and, after completing the course, you’ll certainly have earned their respect.

At the end of it all, a light aircraft will whisk you back to the mainland. From the aircraft, you’ll see the jungle in all its majesty from above. Don’t be surprised if it looks a bit different flying out. When you flew in it was a place where you wouldn’t last a night. Flying out, you’ll see it as a place you’ve not only survived, but learned to understand and, in all likelihood, appreciate and respect.

Rest assured, you will never forget and never regret this experience.