Virgin forest stretches below us and underground rivers spew forth from the cliff face.
In the distance, emerging and disappearing back into the forest, stretched a long train trestle.
Nottingham Forest stretched their unbeaten run to eight Championship games with a 1-1 dragainstnst Birmingham City.
Rod Taylor, director of WWF's global forest programme, said: "Imagine a forest stretching across Germany, France, Spain and Portugal wiped out in just 20 years.
Peace is impossible just now.Below, the forest stretches to the horizon in all directions, a vast head of dark trees broken only by slate-coloured rivers.
The area of the Amazon rainforest – roughly 2.3m square miles – is larger than Western Europe and the forest stretches over nine countries: Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guyana, Guyana, Surinam and Venezuela.
Below us lies a narrow valley dotted with jewel-like tarns, with a sweep of forest stretching away below our alpine lookout.
The valley — with rust red escarpment, dusty mesas and forest — stretches out like an immense archaeological relic — a billion-year-old land where South America and Africa were once joined.
For the most part, the forest stretches like a great, green shroud, concealing a civil war that has raged beneath the canopy for years and years.
The steep, junglelike terrain of the Waimea Valley, about an hour by car from Honolulu, is home to more than 5,500 species of plants and 1,875 acres of tropical rain forest stretching from the mountains to the sea.
