Fredy W. Dominguez Valdivia…your Amazon guide

(Inhabitant of Manu Amazon, guide at home, University educated in Tourism…and general manager at GreenLand Perú)

This is me, enjoying the Amazon like i used to do it, while living over there.

Helping the Amazon is a side effect of visitting it, in a responsible way.

I grew up in this amazon, my father was a jungle man with jungle culture, JUNGLE CULTURE, and this is something that not many companies can give to you; because, no body can buy or learn culture, even reading nice books, or spending some years in the jungle, you can learn many things from jungle culture, but unfortunately you can not be a jungle person; it is something that you learn as part of tradition while growing up with a jungle person like your father or mother. my father tought me many things, how to walk, where to walk, how to swim, where to swim, what to eat and where to find them, how to work in the jungle with a machete or look for fire wood, and of course how to drive  a raft and a motorized boat, because he used to be the best boat driver in the Manu National Park. but still, the best what i learned from him is just by watching him how he used to behave, not much talking, but acting grateful and respectful with the jungle which provides everything, i grew up believing many things, this is what made me who i am, Amazon is my home…

on the other hand, i got an andean mother, i have to say the best one and a great cook, thanks to her i can be writting this web site, she toght me how is the world outside of the jungle, she is living over 43 years in the amazon, and she learned a lot, but, she is not a jungle woman, she is an andean woman who is adapted to the jungle, even if she would be born in the jungle she wouldn´t be a jungle person, as i think, culture you learn from your parents (her parents are andean) and thanks to her i had the chance to go to the university and belive i could be like any other andean person in the cities of Peru, which is not completely true…

by the way i learned about scientific names, birds, mammals, insects, reptiles, plants, ecosystems and over all amazon cultures and because i believe i understand some better the amazon than foreigners or andean people i think i can give you a real taste of the Amazon.

i come from the amazon, i like the amazon, i consider myself amazon, i want to share what i am, and according my posibilities i always will help the amazon and its people, that is why i do this.

Fredy Willian Dominguez Valdivia

General Manager

Green Land Peru

Amazon Manu National Park guide

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