Eco-Planet's Amazon Adventure Level 1 is a GO

Eco-Planet Adventure, Level 1 - light pace Amazon adventure, is a ready to GO!

Aboard our July adventure are three moms and five teenagers!!!
All from Central Florida.

Three sophisticated self-made women with a state of mind that lead them to where others fear to tread!
We will track this adventure to tell you all about them.

No reality show can be more real then this one!

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July 7, 2010

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Back from the Amazon Jungle - Preview

This was an exciting adventure, well documented by our cameras. A lot of stories we have recorded straight from the mouth of the team members in real time on the ground.
Did they fear for their life...? absolutely did. Organized retreat to a safer location...? had to do it! Did they quickly sharp sticks to spears using their machetes...? oh yeah! very quick! Yes they did!
All was there: team anxiety, sleepless nights, excitement, physical and mental endurance challenges, hunts for food, unique encounter incidents with the jungle wildlife and with the Amazonian indigenous people, and more.
Many real adventure elements I was hoping for has happened on this expedition.
Will EXPEDITION AMAZON's adventurers join me on my next adventures? In a heartbeat...so they say.
The up coming meet up event of Sat. Mar.20, 2010 is about telling these stories by the people I have lead throughout the jungle. Video journal will be presented as well as free beer and BBQ. (see details on Eco-Planet Adventure facebook event page).
Hope to see you there.

For our fans and friends out of Florida and from around the world, we will stream live again, broadcasting the event via Ustream.tv.com. Will send you the broadcast details soon. You can sit then by your computer and interact live with EXPEDITION AMAZON team, online. (sorry, no free beer and BBQ for you...Your computer set cannot serve such :-)

Your in Adventures,
Mickey

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Live Broadcast from the Jungle. watch the team

LIVE from the Jungle! virtual meeting with EXPEDITION AMAZON team. don't miss it!

Watch EXPEDITION AMAZON team as they stream live via the Internet from the rural JUNGLE of the Amazon basin in Ecuador. Lead by Mickey Grosman, an IDF Special Forces veteran and the Founder of Eco-Planet Adventures, the adventurers teams from Central Florida and South California are scouting uncharted grounds of the Amazon in search for the amazon wildlife and indigenous people, while being trained in jungle survival by one of the special Elite units of Ecuador's military.

Watch them live on Feb.23, 2010 at 5:00PM eastern time
Click here to join the broadcasting:

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GREETING EXPEDITION AMAZON TEAM

GREETING EXPEDITION AMAZON TEAM
At this time the Eco-Planet challenging exploration journey has begun. Back at home, we wish all our team members an amazing adventure filled with adrenalin rushes and great discoveries!
Scouting uncharted grounds of the Amazon basin in Ecuador, the team will put into action their life experience in adventure sports while challenging themselves to new limits. We greatly respect the enthusiasm and passion for nature by our Eco-Planet’s Adventurers team, and appreciate their adventure spirit that brought them here today.

ABOUT THE ADVENTURE
With Mickey Grosman leading EXPEDITION AMAZON, we are confident that our team will experience an unforgettable journey! This adventure trip takes them into the rural jungle and allows them to experience the wild, first-hand, while learning survival skills; its an adventure that will allow them to conquer their fears and let them challenge themselves beyond their personal limits.
From the snowcap glaciers of the Andes at 16,000 feet altitude, down to the remote jungle of the Amazon basin at about sea level, EXPEDITION AMAZON is all about daily challenges: The team does a fair amount of extreme expeditions, some of which includes hiking 10 miles a day in dense jungle environment - mainly over rough terrain. Other activities include mountain climbing, off-road mountain biking, white water rafting and rappelling of waterfall cascades that reach as high as 300 feet. They maneuver their ways along the Amazon Basin Rivers by using primitive dugout canoes and self-built Balsa rafts. They practice jungle survival skills as they interact with the remote Amazonian indigenous tribes and encounter endless wildlife, fauna and flora the rainforest offers. Anacondas, Jaguars, Monkeys, Piranhas and toucans are only few to mention.

ABOUT MICKEY, ECO-PLANET ADVENTURE FOUNDER
Years ago, with a far-reaching vision and lots of imagination, Mickey Grosman began dreaming of Xtreme Challenge Adventures in locations where footprints of men are sparse, yet tracks of wildlife are always abundant. His urge for challenges kept him coming back to the Amazon Rainforest where he was inspired to spread the thrill of Eco-adventures travel and the passion for Ecuador’s wild nature with adventurers like himself.
Months of preparations, logistics, innovations and creativity - while staying in the rural jungle and living among the Amazon indigenous - resulted in this amazing adventure we wish to share with you today. Mickey Grosman, the founder of ECO-PLANET ADVENTURE, his life experience and years of service in the IDF-Israeli Defense Special Forces, accompanied by his immense energy and endless courage, prepared him to overcome any obstacles on his way to achieve such a dream-adventure.

ABOUT THE AMAZON BASIN INDIGENOUS
Sharing his Eco-adventure plans and logistical solutions with his friends of the Amazon, Mickey found the indigenous to be very curios but somewhat skeptical. No travelers before have dared to visit their land - located deep within the dense jungle. Logistically, having travelers coming their locations was impossible, as no roads lead into the remote Rainforest, nor have any river routes followed directly from civilization back to their neck of the woods. Mickey presented the tribes with his eco-adventure plans and technical solutions while focusing on the creation of a coexistent relationship between Nature, the Amazon indigenous, and Eco-planet adventurers.
Understanding their culture and traditional values by listening to their needs, we, at Eco-Planet Adventure support the development of ecotourism among the small remote communities of Ecuador and provide them with an alternative source of income and a direct economic incentive that strongly and undoubted benefits the Rainforest conservation and reforestation.
The indigenous of the Amazon basin that host EXPEDITION AMAZON are grateful for the support and care pointed in their direction, in the shape and in the name of Eco-challenge adventures. They are fully involved in the daily activities of our adventures and share with us their life experience in the forest.

GO EXPEDITION AMAZON - Kayaking / Canoeing - Spot

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EXPEDITION AMAZON - summary

Expedition Amazon Ecuador is getting closer - The Countdown has begun.
On February 17, 2010 adventurist MickeyG is taking a small team aboard an exploration journey to scout uncharted grounds in the Amazon Basin - deep within the dense Primary tropical Rainforest of Ecuador, where the footprints of men are sparse, yet tracks from wildlife are always abundant!

With Mickey on the team is a nice body of Eco-challenge adventurists that participates regularly in adventures of all levels: Fire Marshal - rope expert and medic support. College professor, games inventor and adventure racer. Photographer, art designer and outdoor enthusiast. Navy pilot veteran who translates his military experience into incredible outdoor adventures. from East to West, Florida to California, the best of the best!

MickeyG - his years of service in the "IDF" special forces (Israeli defense forces) as well as his personable and high energy demeanor create a "perfect storm" of an individual to lead Eco-challenge seekers and outdoor enthusiasts through the jungle of Ecuador. He will be leading ECO-Planet adventure and SCOA teams on EXPEDITION AMAZON.

Expedition summary:

Trip duration: 14 days – First and last days are spared for international travel
Adventure duration: 12 day
Trip begins: February 17, 2010
Ending: March 2, 2010
Arriving at Quito – Ecuador's capital city early afternoon.

EXPEDITION AMAZON, its discoveries and adventure sport accomplishments will be shared with friends and families at home via SPOT GPS tracking device and will be streamed live from the Jungle via Satellite. with technology willing, daily updates will be posted on Eco-Planet Adventure Blog and on Facebook and Twitter. simply follow EPA


Expedition route and tentative time frame:

Day 1 – Arriving Quito – The capital city of Ecuador – Group welcome meeting early evening - overnight at a Quito.

Day 2 – Volcano Cotopaxi - High altitude climbing towards Cotopaxi's glacier observation located at about 5 km/16,000 ft elevation. Cold weather. Mountain bike ride down the steep slope. Overnight at Baños .

Day 3 – Flight to Pavacachi – Eco-Planet's campground base, 200 miles into the rural Amazon basin jungle. Dugout canoe ride to the Jungle camp. Tropical weather.

• 7 days Jungle expedition begins at Pavacachi - the indigenous Amazonian Qichua tribal community, and continues to Baumeno – the Yasuní indigenous Huaorani tribal community.
• Accommodation: Sleeping in tents along the river lagoons or on the raised river banks.
• Food source is variety of fish we catch, yuccas, plantain, chicha and food trading with by pass local boaters / hunters.

Day 4 – Jungle survival training day, led by Amazonian native jungle survivalists' pros and by our Special Forces veterans' team. Jungle Expedition begins right after with river rafting on self made balsa rafts. (Teams competition)

Days 5–6-7-8-9 - Expedition and jungle exploration continues to include trekking and dugout canoe rides along the Curaray river down to the Peru boarder, where Curaray and Cononaco rivers meets and where the Amazon wildlife rules. Expedition continues up the Cononaco stream towards Baumeno.

Day 10 – A day with the Huaorani at Baumeno. traditional hunting demonstration in the jungle and cultural interaction with the tribal community. Local jungle sport competitions.

Day 11 – Flight to Shell – Party bus ride up the Andes to Baños, a colorful town that sit at the foothill cliff of Volcán Tungurahua. - Overnight at Baños

Day 12 – Mountain and River sports – White water rafting level 4 and spectacular waterfall repelling of 100 ft. or more.

Day 13 – Back to Quito and to La Mitad del Mundo (Middle of the World) – the Equator

Day 14 – Leaving Ecuador back home.

Remember:
Adventure is the state of mind that leads you to where others fear to tread...
GO EXPEDITION AMAZON!
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