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Expedition to Guyana - spending a night in the rainforest

In the late sixteenth century, Elizabethan explorer Sir Walter Raleigh sailed to Guyana and then attempted to find El Dorado. Raleigh would have lived in very basic conditions as he explored vast open plains and dense rainforests. Four hundred years later, eight British children have come to Guyana to follow in Raleigh's footsteps. They are the Serious Explorers. Even today, much of Guyana is almost uninhabited and has changed little since Raleigh was here. The young explorers are well away from twenty-first century modern comforts. They must learn how to make shelters and beds and how to find food to sustain themselves so that they can survive in the rainforest for thirty-six hours without adult support.

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