Saturday 13 July 2013

July 10th - Braving The Rainforest


We had been staying at ENI mission in Sinoa County, which is where Paul (as a young boy) and his parents lived and worked for 7 years before ABC was created. ENI is literally in the middle of nowhere. To give you an idea, it took us 16 hours in 2 feet of swamp mud to get to ENI. This trip was only 250 miles, and would normally on paved roads take about 4 1/2-5 hours. The nice thing about where this mission is located, is that its about 1 1/2 hours away from the Sapo Rainforest. The Sapo National Park is home to a very famous rainforest. It is the same forest that the film Chimpanzee was filled in just across the boarder in the Ivory Coast. We decided to take the family for a hike, in hopes that we would stumble across either pigmy hippos, dwarf crocodiles, pigmy elephants, or best of all...chimps! I have done a lot of hiking and camping in the states in my life, but nothing compares to this. This was a real Rainforest. It was nothing but thick jungle as far as you could see. The forest was so dense, it seemed as if it was night time when it was only 2:00 in the afternoon. At one point we jokingly said we felt like we were in the “Thieves Forest” from the movie the Princess Bride, and were just waiting to be attacked by giant rats or swallowed up by quick sand! In the end the closest we came to seeing any of those animals was seeing an old Chimp’s nest about 80 feet up in a tree. But we didn’t need to see any of that to be blown away by God’s creation.
 It is amazing how after 15+ years of war, it’s as if God allowed this forest to remain untouched. It’s also a miracle how in such a war-torn country, God and his beauty can still be seen in the Sapo Rainforest.

Cozz 





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