When you'd open the back panel in my wardrobe, some dappled sunlight will enter the wardrobe, inviting you into this strange world on the other side. A worn path stretches out in front of you, it seems to lead through a forest.
Just follow the path for a while and soon enough you'll arrive at a clearing. The remains of a campfire are here and there are paths leading in several directions.
If you would go West, you'd reach the shore after a while, a sandy quiet beach awaits you there.
If you'd go East, you'll go deeper into the forest, where you can find beautiful and weird flowers in the various clearings and if you don't make too much noise you might even encounter some of the most interesting and strange creatures that roam this world.
If you would head South, you'll enter the mountain range after a while, where the forest is gradually replaced by pine trees and conifers. If you climb the first mountain, you'll have a breathtaking view of the forest and some of the clearings, in the distance you can even see the ocean.
If you'd head North, you'll reach the portal again, but you can walk around it and venture into the jungle beyond it. You can find even more exotic and strange flora and fauna there, you have to be very careful there, a lot of plants are toxic and some animals have venom that kill you within a moment, others can cause horrible pains. It's best not to go there unprotected.
When I first entered this world, there were no paths at all, throughout the years of venturing through this world I made the paths appear as a silent witness of my many explorations. At the first clearing you can see that my favourite route is to the East. The path to into the forest goes on for a while, past several clearings where you'll find new trails leading off in different directions. In one of those clearings you can find one of the most beautiful plants in this world, it looks like a crossbreed of a passion flower and orchids. The fruits it gives are almost fluorescent pink when ripe, very juicy and taste sweet with an interesting hint of spices. The animals you can encounter here aren't hostile, as long as you don't try to harm them. Some are even very friendly and curious. My favourite is the Catopuma Canis, which looks like a rather big cat -almost puma sized- but has a dog/wolf-like behaviour. There are several roaming the forest, but I mostly encounter a ginger one. When it gets to know you and you treat it right, it loves to play fetch (and other games). It even has a sense of humour, when you throw a fruit, it tries to snap it from the air. When the fruit has broken open and splattered its juice over the animals snout, you can spot the animal grinning when it comes back for another round. They are also good protectors, when I venture in the jungle I prefer to be accompanied by this magnificent animal.
Further away from the portal you can find even stranger creatures and plants. You don't find any dwellings here, this world is not inhabited by humans. The creatures living here respect nature and if you want to find where and how they live, you'll have to search, they don't reveal themselves as easy as some others. This forest is rather peaceful though, unlike the hostile jungle.
When you head for the jungle, you'll noticed that the forest gradually changes shape and the variety of plants and trees start to mix with the jungle ones. The further you go the thicker the growth. I don't go into the jungle very often, mostly when I'm angry. I have noticed that when I damage something there it regrows within a few days. So I don't feel guilty about cutting a path here. Despite its hostility, you can find some very interesting plants here. There is a plant that resembles ivy in the way it grows up against trees, the leaves are like hands, its 'fingers' having saw-teeth edges.The flowers of this one are big, round and velvet black, when it has finished blooming, the flower transforms into a star-shaped 'fruit' with at each point of the star a little ball. When it gets touched it launches seeds from these balls into every direction before falling off. As I mentioned before the animals here in the jungle are dangerous. There are critters roaming the ground with spikes on their backs, Mohican (Mohawk) style. When I had found one dead and examined the spikes, I noticed that these spikes are having a venom-sack, which gets injected if you'd step on it. There are also bigger animals here, sometimes I hear a strange roar in the distance, it frightens me, it sounds very big, so I've never checked it out. There is another one here that roars like a very big animal, but actually it's a cute little one. It prefers to hide amongst the roots of a tree that is often hollow, so when it roars, the sound gets amplified in the tree and makes it sound very dangerous. This little creature feeds itself with the nut-like fruit from a plant that carries tulip-like flowers. This animal is about the size of a rabbit, has cat-like ears, the snout of an squirrel and a bushy tail. It is very shy and hides quick when it hears strange noises. If you think you've seen one, it's best to go and sit somewhere nearby in utter silence. If you're lucky it comes out of hiding to look for food.
There is so much more to tell about this world, but unfortunately it is time again to pass through the portal back to this world.
