Nearly a month has passed since I departed dear Ecuador to reconvene with friends from Guadalupe for the Samana Santa (Easter Week). Lacking time and memory, I simply will report that any searcher of gorgeously tropical, Andean, and generally preserved and thusly pristine (and for this largely overpriced) property in the Spanish speaking world shall look no farther than Vilcabamba, Ecuador. This quaint little village hosts a shockingly international community of new-age hippie type organic farmers and chic cafe owners all drawn to the valley under a common purpose; to live forever.
According to an article I read during my stay at the "Reforestation Project" (which I will expand upon later) a study was conducted by National Geographic Society after many visitors took note of the surprising numbers of extremely elderly people in the Village of Vilcabamba. The study that unfolded yielded that one´s chances of living to age 100, in general, are somewhere in the ball park of one in 174,000. In short, don´t hold your breath. However, in the village of Vilcabama ones chances are sharply (a gross understatement) increased to one in 46...yup, that´s 1/46. However can this be you ask? Is it the food, the climate, the lifestyle in general? Further studies concluded that, in fact, its the water which has traditionally been pumped and consumed directly from rivers that originate in the mountainous Amazon basin of Southern Euador and Northwestern Brazil. They are, quite literally, drinking the purest water in the world and consequently living longer than anyone on the planet. If you actually needed another argument for conserving the rainforest, there you have it. Its a life giving force of astronomic proportions.
According to an article I read during my stay at the "Reforestation Project" (which I will expand upon later) a study was conducted by National Geographic Society after many visitors took note of the surprising numbers of extremely elderly people in the Village of Vilcabamba. The study that unfolded yielded that one´s chances of living to age 100, in general, are somewhere in the ball park of one in 174,000. In short, don´t hold your breath. However, in the village of Vilcabama ones chances are sharply (a gross understatement) increased to one in 46...yup, that´s 1/46. However can this be you ask? Is it the food, the climate, the lifestyle in general? Further studies concluded that, in fact, its the water which has traditionally been pumped and consumed directly from rivers that originate in the mountainous Amazon basin of Southern Euador and Northwestern Brazil. They are, quite literally, drinking the purest water in the world and consequently living longer than anyone on the planet. If you actually needed another argument for conserving the rainforest, there you have it. Its a life giving force of astronomic proportions.
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