... We endured torrential downpours and hacked with machetes for days through triple canopy rain forest... There isn't much need to hack through triple canopy jungle. Double canopy is actually thicker vegetation on the floor since sunlight actually reaches the jungle floor. In triple canopy the canopy is so thick very little sunlight reaches the floor, hence less vegetation to "hack through".
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... We endured torrential downpours and hacked with machetes for days through triple canopy rain forest