Don't get me wrong...I was not making an excuse for him...just reporting what I read.
I know. My guess you or I would consider his stay in the "jungle" a vacation. Me, I'd bring my wife, though she doesn't like the jungle and would only come a week at a time.
I've posted a thread or two about tours to South America than concentrate on the hallucinogenic "healing" available there.
Maybe that's what's going on :>)