View from atop the Andes...
the patterns of the cultivated fields
(amaranth, quinoa, corn, barley...)
are in many alpaca sweater designs
Another high view
Andean woman and
children
Inquisitive piglets
Pre-incan burial sites
Andean woman and baby
Bridge at Paucartambo
Beautiful grasses
Entering the Manú National
Park reserve
Liza's ready to roll!
Coming down from the pass
(12000+ ft) into the cloud forest
Cock-of-the-Rock (it's
a bird!) Lodge
Path at COTR Lodge
Birding from the porch at COTR
The sign is a little beat up, but
it *does* say San Pedro on it
(hello, San Pedro CA!)
Group shot before leaving COTR
Continuing downslope...
Together!
Look hard for the
streamcreeper...we did
Pilcopata...last battery stop before
Amazonia
View over the Madre de Dios
River
Fearless driver Amerigo!
Atalaya - jumping off point on
the Madre de Dios River
Waiting at Atalaya for the rain
to stop before boarding the boats
Dole, eat your heart out! These
are better than yours!
Boarding the boats that would
take us to the Amazonia Lodge
Robert on the boat
Leaving Atalaya
Robert at the Amazonia Lodge
(after the mile walk in the
rain from the boats)
Grounds at Amazonia Lodge,
which used to be a citrus
plantation
Our accommodations
Robert at the boat "dock" at
Amazonia
Boats in the morning light
Stormy weather
Liza at the boat en route to
Manú