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Panama: Part Two

Rainforest makes for tough trekking
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Rainforest makes for tough trekking. Soldiers reckon on covering only about a mile to a mile and half a day over such terrain. Here Bear crosses a massive 30-metre deep ravine. Progress is slow because the log is covered with moss and lichens that make it slippery.

Bear legs it out of a 'copter and into a clearing in the Panamanian rainforestBear heads uphill to the Nusagandi region of PanamaRainforest makes for tough trekkingBears quenches his thirst with sap from the water vine
Bear rubs the sap from this little plant on a cutBear finds an anthill where he takes a tasty snack of live termiteBear weaves himself a vine hammock so he can sleep safely off the forest floor where all manner of biting things roamBear is a master of fire-starting
Bear smothers himself in a pile of red dirtBear takes a hunting lesson from the ancient Embera tribeBear has to make do with raw snakeBear scrambles up to the highest point where he is picked up by helicopter
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