A Sweltering Night in the Colombian Jungle
It was a sweltering night in the jungle. I was at the La Pita emerald mining consortium complex near Maripi Colombia. I had made the trip with an emerald broker who wanted to show me the operation and was sort of training me in the business.
The complex has rooms in a sort of a timeshare type arrangement where relatively successful miners and brokers stay when they come to the mining zone. Up on a hill overlooking the “hotel” was a hacienda where the camp manager lived.
Initially I was in a shared room with another miner, it was kind of like an extended stay hotel room with kitchenette, bathroom, and air conditioning. For reasons that were never explained to me, I was moved out of the “hotel” and up to a private room in the hacienda.
The room was decidedly more primitive with no air conditioning, only an old floor fan to help cool the room. In this heat it made little difference, it barely worked and made a terrible racket. I really could not sleep with all the noise it made. I found myself wishing I had brought along the small desktop fan I had purchased from http://www.desktopfan.org. I bought the desktop fan shortly before leaving for Colombia but the shipping was too slow to get it to me in time for the trip.
So I spent a sweltering night at the mining camp without any means of cooling off. I was in a second floor room of a old uninsulated house where heat rose and seemed to collect on the scond floor.Next time I head for the jungle I’ll be sure to bring my own fan.
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