GREEN | CLIMATE | AFRICA

Green Means Life — Transitioning From the Desert To the Jungle

Experiencing the impact of plant life around us.

From the desert to the jungle. Photos by author. Image created on Canva.

In the past 5 years of full-time travel, we have seen some extraordinary landscapes. I wrote about many of them in my last monthly prompt response at Globetrotters ‘Terrains Of the World’.

But this month, to celebrate March, we editors at Globetrotters are asking writers to write about all things green.

When I think of green I think of plants. The most significant time that I remember realizing that green means life is when we flew from Sudan to Uganda in 2021. For more than the past year, we had been traveling mostly in areas of the Sahara Desert. While visiting Morocco, Egypt and Sudan, we had adapted to the brown around us.

The dryness of the desert with bits and pieces of green. Photo credits: Author

We didn’t even really realize how much being surrounded by green plant life would mean to us. We hadn’t experienced even a drop of rain in many months, and the first day we walked around in Uganda there was a slight sprinkling of rain and we absolutely…