How To Get A Wife In The Amazon (Shuar Tribe)

Added: 2026-05-11

[00:00:05]They told me straight to my face, you're not a man if you don't do this. And if I do, the tribal elder gives me permission to have 10 kids. Yes, 10 kids. Also, they feed me live beetles as a snack.

[00:00:16]So, with all that energy, I got to work on this 400-year-old tree. Buenos Diaz from the Amazon jungle. I'm with >> Isamar.

[00:00:24]>> Isamar. And today, we're going to be switching lives. I'm going to try to be an Ecuadorian farmer for the day and an indigenous farmer for the day. As you'll see later in the video, our goal and our plan is to cut this entire tree down, go get some food, and of course spend time with the family. So, let's see what a day in the life is like for our people.

[00:00:43]Okay, so I'm with her and I saw this, right? I saw some water inside of a plant. It looks super perfect and super juicy.

[00:00:53]See?

[00:01:00]Oh, see.

[00:01:03]>> Oh, it's okay. So, what she's telling me right now is that this water down here is per if your eye gets itchy, you put it in your eye. But I guess I want to drink it. Look at that. Look how beautiful it looks. Let's see closeup.

[00:01:14]Very shiny.

[00:01:20]>> See, it's like all natural rain collector. This is their bridge. It's kind of sketchy, but let's see if I can walk through this bad boy. All right.

[00:01:30]Boom. Easy. I'm kind of falling behind here, so we got to keep going.

[00:01:41]All right. Right now, I just I guess I just got to keep following them. I have my own machete, but I'm not doing really much with it. And it is extremely extremely muddy here. If I brought my normal shoes, I would be fried. So, thank God they have an extra pair of boots for me.

[00:02:00]Oh, see.

[00:02:04]Oh, >> so in their legends right there, that specific plant is what they're telling me is a monster-like human being would come in the night and take that plant and trap people with it and then eat them. That's one of the legends of the Schwar tribe.

[00:02:20]Oh my god.

[00:02:30]Oh, gas.

[00:02:39]>> Oh, okay.

[00:02:42]So, what they're telling me right now is this is a very medicinal plant.

[00:02:46]See, they make they crush this up and make this into a sort of salve. I I'm assuming actually hold on. If anyone can recognize this leaf and tell me what this is, I guarantee this is probably antibacterial or antifungal.

[00:02:59]>> Smells pretty bitter. I would say it smells pretty bitter. And you know what they say, the more bitter the medicine, the faster your stuff heals. Over here, you're practically born with a machete inside of your hand. But as you see over here, it's just like a normal everyday tool. It's, you know, maybe in London, right? In London, there's people with machetes in the streets, but in the USA, you will never see people just walking around with machetes in their backyard.

[00:03:21]Maybe you're like a fancy, like, you know, outdoorsy guy, but usually like the average American will never use a machete in their life.

[00:03:42]Yeah.

[00:03:51]She's saying if I can't cut down these trees, cuz in their culture, I mean, it's very important for the man to cut down these trees, then she's not having any more kids with me.

[00:04:13]That's my goal here. 30 minutes is what it takes for a normal shore man to cut it down, but I'm going to try to do it in 1 hour. It is absolutely massive. And the question is, why am I cutting this down? I'm cutting this down. Wait, right there so it can fall. And then they harvest mukindi, which is a type of um like larvae, grubworm that they take and they eat. And that's their delicacy.

[00:04:36]I'll try to put I'll put a little picture right here of what it looks like. Um, apparently once this falls and rots in 1 month, there should be thousands of them on the inside. And you know, they sell for like 50 cents each.

[00:04:47]So, it's pretty good money. You get 500 bucks to $1,000. Depends on how much, you know, harvest in there. Okay. Yeah, that's impossible. That is a very tough tree.

[00:05:08]Mhm.

[00:05:18]Wow.

[00:05:39]Okay, so now I got something to prove.

[00:05:45]Because there's so much mud here, my strategy is to put a bunch of leaves down first. Otherwise, ow, >> otherwise I will be slipping or falling. Oh yeah, look at that. I'm getting serious. I'm taking the I'm taking the backpack off.

[00:06:19]Not in the field.

[00:06:26]>> Oh yeah.

[00:06:51]very nice over here. That one's like they're all alive still cuz people down here people alive down here quite often.

[00:07:15]Okay. Yeah.

[00:07:29]Strong man. Strong man. You're so a strong man.

[00:07:48]>> See, strong man. See Maybe one or two kids is enough. Dude, if she's stronger than me, that's how I know I probably need to hit the gym a little bit more, do some cardio. So, their brother had to come down and help me a little bit because I don't know if I'm a strong man. Dude, I'm not built out. I'm built out for holding the camera. I'm built out for editing on a computer. They're not really built out for cutting down uh maybe like a 400y old tree. It's incredible. On the inside of the tree, it actually is like coconut bark.

[00:08:33]Imagine like taking honeycombs fibers and then you chew it and a little coconut water comes out.

[00:08:43]It's pretty good.

[00:08:52]So, oh my gosh, this is actually a wild banana. See, the real bananas don't have or not the real bananas. The fake bananas you see at the store don't have seeds. That's how you know it's real. It actually has seeds on the inside, which it came from that thing right over there. Pink banana. That's the first time ever see. Oh, shoot.

[00:09:12]While he's cutting down, let's take a little snack break. See how much What's it say peppers?

[00:09:23]>> No.

[00:09:24]>> Oh, it just tastes like a normal banana, but it's wild. Bunch of seeds inside.

[00:09:31]>> Banana tree.

[00:09:32]>> Yes.

[00:09:35]Ina.

[00:09:36]>> Yeah.

[00:09:36]>> Banana tree.

[00:09:37]>> Banana tree. This is banana tree.

[00:09:45]>> Wo.

[00:09:47]Yo, that was wow. Okay, baby. So, >> we have some chicha here. What they do and of course you guys have seen this video over and over again. I don't know wherea.

[00:10:02]>> She's giving us some fish here. Nice. I think that's what we might eat later.

[00:10:06]But, uh, we got the famous spit drink of Amazon tribe. I'll put a little video right up there in the top left corner.

[00:10:11]Top right. I don't know. And uh guess right here this is where they get their strength in the Amazon.

[00:10:22]>> Apart from them cutting this tree down to harvest the grubworms, they also harvest the palmito which is a type of vegetable that's inside of the tree which you see him right now cutting it open to harvest this. Which down here doesn't matter what age you are. You're going to be working and helping. And you can see me trying to help right here which you know I'm like a fish out of water. I can barely help because I'm slipping and sliding in the mud, but they're kind of used to it. So, after helping them tear this apart, they cut it open. And what you're about to see now is the palmito vegetable, which is the heart of palm. That's what it's called in English, of course. And they use this in their traditional foods called pacos, which basically is just a bunch of mixed up chicken with this vegetable. So, let's try it.

[00:11:06]That's it. 100%. This is cabbage. So, we have got everything done and I guess I'm done working for the day. So, I earned my meal.

[00:11:29]Wow. All right. So, this tastes like actual coconut. That delicious, dude.

[00:11:33]Delicious.

[00:11:44]Oh, >> so they have to tear off the legs first.

[00:11:52]But this indigenous girl is going to eat these uh live beetles. Nuts.

[00:11:59]So what they do is they take the all the legs off and then take the hard scale off and then they eat the juicy meaty part on the inside like that.

[00:12:15]>> Yeah. Oh man. Before I eat this live beetle that has little eggs on its feet, um can you please subscribe? This is just for you guys. I promise you. If you're watching this, I want you to watch this and I want you to see me eat this live beetle and his guts burst in my mouth like a like a little crunchy popcorn piece. So, please subscribe. Um, let's go ahead and try. It looks like a cockroach almost, but uh you know when we're here, let's do it. Yeah.

[00:12:54]It's not bad. Despite like the the gross out factor, doesn't really have a flavor. It's just guts, you know.

[00:13:00]Imagine insect guts and that's what you eat. It's not bad. I got to wash it down with some of this sweet coconut stuff, though.

[00:13:11]>> Super fermented.

[00:13:14]They're leaving me behind very fast cuz I'm like a rhinoceros in the jungle right now. So, the same tree that we cut down, >> that's what it looks like with all its fruits intact. I've been keeping some landmarks.

[00:13:26]>> And after about a few hours in here, my number one landmark is now we're back.

[00:13:32]It's boom. Once you see the open clearing cuz look, look how dark it is inside there. And then look how beautiful bright it is outside here.

[00:13:40]After finally getting home, the women started preparing the food. As you know or may not know, in this culture, only the women cook. The men aren't even in the kitchen while they're cooking. and preparing. They're off working still.

[00:13:50]And then once it's night time, that's when the food's ready and everyone comes home to eat. They wrap this dish in banana leaves and cook it over the fire.

[00:13:57]So, I can't wait to try it.

[00:14:04]This is what we're eating.

[00:14:16]And this is what it is, baby. So, of course, I explained it a little bit in the, you know, the voiceover process, but look at that. Looks beautiful. I can't wait to eat in. I haven't ate anything. And I am Oh, that looks so good, dude. Um, it's basically just a bunch of chopped up chicken, which I've explained early in the video. I have some and delicious, by the way. And then >> they boiled some rice for me cuz I'm like, "Hey, I want some rice."

[00:14:49]>> So, uh, let's go and eat and then let's go and talk about what happened today.

[00:14:52]It's a bad boy shot.

[00:15:00]>> Imagine chicken needs a little bit of salt, but with some coconut with what this is like a soft little vegetable thing kind of like cabbage coconut.

[00:15:08]Pretty interesting. And then got some tomote or king.

[00:15:16]>> Pretty good. Also need some salt.

[00:15:19]Then we got some yuka mama, which is cassaba in English. So, you know, I know three languages, right? Gasaba, yuka, mama.

[00:15:30]>> It's my favorite, dude. All right. And just to end up on the day, I feel like I'm pretty accomplished. Let me know, guys. Would you live here? And would you like spend a few days here? I think it's pretty dope. Well, I guess for me, I'm spending almost the rest of my life here. But um delay subscribe.

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