Tropical Rainforest Expeditions with Anders Andersen - The Wild Tales

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In this vivid close to our conversation, explorer and wilderness guide Anders Anderson shares a heartfelt call to adventure – one that goes beyond thrill-seeking and into the soul of the rainforest.

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Anders urges listeners to travel with intention: to seek out the deep, breathing jungles of the world – from South America to West Africa to Indonesia – and meet the people who live there. Not through staged tours or quick snapshots, but by immersing oneself in the land, in its rhythms, and in the wisdom of its guardians. “Pull the plug,” he says. Step away from the noise. And in doing so, discover not only nature but your place within it.

He offers a pay-it-forward initiative rooted in presence: support indigenous communities by showing up, by learning, and by carrying their stories outward. It’s a form of solidarity that goes hand in hand with wild travel.

We also get a glimpse into Anders’ next expeditions – untrodden paths in the Pakaraima Mountains, the Acaraí Range, and the enigmatic New River Triangle. These aren’t just geographic journeys; they’re quests for lost petroglyphs, ancient stories, and the raw, unfiltered pulse of Earth’s last wild places.

Connect with Anders Anderson & Wild Tales:

• Instagram, YouTube, TikTok: Search "The Wild Tales Guyana"
• TripAdvisor: Read first-hand accounts from past expeditioners
• Newsletter: Sign up for updates on upcoming survival courses and once-in-a-lifetime adventures into South America’s remotest corners

Call to Adventure: Visit a tropical rainforest. Not just as a traveler, but as a listener and a witness. Go beyond the guidebooks. Find the communities. Hear their stories. Support their stewardship of the living wild.

Final Thought: As Anders says, if you go with an open heart, the rainforest will change the way you see nature – forever.

Transcript

 So almost coming up on time, this has been fantastic and there's, I've got a couple of closing traditions on the show.

One of which is a pay forward suggestion for a charity worthy cause, any organization, and then a call to adventure. So the opportunity to suggest some adventurous activity, which I can probably guess what it would be. So what would you say is a recommendation for a paid forward initiative? An adventure that people should go and experience.

I wouldn't say a specific, I'm not gonna say one of my own ones, but I think everybody owe themself to go and visit the tropical rainforest. Go and find someone who take you out to some of those places that is beyond what the classical tourist trips. Go in and meet the people living in this forest.

Learn from them and go in and just get lost in it because not. Literally speaking, but go in and completely pull the plug. Everything that you had ever been sitting and dreaming about, meeting these indigenous people in the environment and stuff like that. It's true. I mean like it is probably different than you perceived it, but it's true.

And go in and meet them and support them where they are, because the alternative today is use of natural resources. Start doing gold mining, all of these things here. Traveling, support them. Don't just do it by giving them a donation and stuff like that. Go in and meet them and go in and make sure that they as well understand that there's people out there cheering on them and cheering on what they're doing for this Garden of Eden that we still have here on planet Earth.

Right? And it doesn't matter if it's South America or it's West Africa, or it's Indonesia or where you go, just make sure you go there. Mm-hmm. And then I'm gonna promise you that it's gonna change the way that you see nature forever. Yeah. Fantastic. It's a double whammy. It's, it is getting involved with the local communities, but also having that adventure experience as well.

Fantastic. Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Uh, this has been wonderful. So where can people find out more about Anders Anderson, the Wild Tales and all things Guyana? Yeah. Well, I could say right away, there's not many people that, there's Anderson and Guyana. I know that for a fact. Like I'm on all social media, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok.

If you go in and find the wild tales, you will very like, there's apparently a Hollywood movie as well a couple of years back called The Wild Tales. But if you go in and sit the Wild Tales, Guyana, you've gotta find me on all social medias. You can go in and read very heartfelt reviews on TripAdvisor about the like people who've been on Expeditions in Survival courses.

And then of course you can sign up for newsletter where we are putting once in a lifetime adventures like Wild, wild Expeditions that has never been done before, going to places. That is some of the most remote corners of South America looking for archeological sites and like old tribes and rare wildlife and everything.

I mean. You can follow some adventures. This was how you found me as well, eventually, uh, initially Right. You can follow some very raw and unfiltered adventures and experiences, right? Yeah. Because we try to put it out as it is when you out with us. So yeah, and I totally re recommend the newsletter. I'll get all those links and stuff publicized when the show is live on that topic actually.

Do you have any other big adventures, personally or for the wild tails? Anything that you've unrealized yet that you would love to do? Yeah, I got so many. I really, I got a whole draw full of them, but I got two things right now. One is the Packer Rima Mountains, or the Rima Mountain on the Guyana side. I mean, like this place here is so.

Explored. You wouldn't believe it. Now they're sending me pictures about like, uh, satellites that is laying up. That's the big ooze. Yeah, the ooze basically. So satellites that is laying up in the mountains, that has been dropped down. I got the coordinates on, I found a plane, wrecky. I wanna explore the area for archeological sites, petro lives.

And like now I'm opening up, I have an ongoing chat with a community living the closest community to Mount Rhim on the guy on the side. And then I got the Acai Mountains down at the. Basically this most often tip a mountain chain down towards Brazil where there's gonna be petroglyphs and stuff, a couple of days traveling from YY, and then there's the New River Triangle, which is an area that is slightly disputed, but that area, there is an area so large and so vast that if you wanted to hide in there as a.

Remote tribe, you could do it. This area here is one of the least explored places of flat lowland Amazon Jungle, left on the planet. It is so wild and so remote and now I got access to it through a community and that place there is gonna be, so whoever wanna go into places where no one else is going, they just get in touch.

Because I got like all the expeditions laying right here with logistics and everything. I just waiting for someone who wanna go with me. Oh, fantastic. I'm sure when this goes live as well, there'll be people signing up or reaching out. Oh, absolutely. Fantastic. I've loved this. Anders, this has been fantastic.

You've got me excited about lots of things, so thank you. Yeah. You're gonna come, man. Next time we're gonna be sitting and then we're gonna be recording this down at Rock Landing in the Jungle. You're gonna see an amazing sunset and the guys getting into the boats, and we're gonna go and catch some snakes and some cable in the river.

Yes, absolutely. I can't wait. I can't wait. Thank you so much for having me, Chris. This was a pleasure and thank you very much for giving me a little time to talk about what we're doing down here. No, that really means a lot to us. You're welcome. Thank you