Peru

[lonelybrit]

I don't have a digital camera, just an old-fashioned film contraption and one of those CDs where they scan in your photos. Still, it's better than nothing and it's nice having them online in some form so I can reminisce :) The full text/story of the trip to Refugios Amazonas is here.

DAY ONE: ARRIVAL
	Puerto Maldonado Aiport So it begins...
	Tambopata River The motorised dugout, complete with driver and food supplies, yay!
	Tambopata River River banks
	Refugio Amazonas The lodge
DAY TWO: The 'easy' 5.30am start...
	Canopy tower Dawn over the rainforest as seen from the top of the canopy tower
	Canopy Tower Distant tree, take my word for it there was a toucan sitting in there somewhere...
	Rainforest walk En route to the mammal clay lick
	Sultana In the blind for the mammal clay lick we found a tiny fruit bat that was thereby christened Sultana. She was very very lovely.
	Sultana Cropped and tweaked a bit so she's a little more clear...
	Wandering Webless Spider With yellow belly and red fangs, this beige beauty is more than 15 times more poisonous than the Black Widow.
	Wandering Spider A little more clear...
	Eco Farm Fruit tree
	Eco - Farm Walking through the trees of avocados and starfruits and something that tasted like a super!sour!chewit. Good times.
	Eco - Farm Bananas!
	Bird nests Hanging nests: if you squint the tiny brown blur to the right is in fact one of the birds returning to its home.
	Hanging Nests Cropped - you can just about make out the yellow of the bird's tail
	Banks of the Tambopata Waiting for the boat to return to the lodge
	Caiman Caiman! They were very very pretty.
	Caiman Poor caiman. He was very beautiful though.
	Caiman No animals were hurt in the shooting of this film...
DAY THREE: The painful 4am start...
	Tambopata If you squint to the left of the white branch, the small brown rump belongs to a retreating capybara
	Insect Some kind of locust or cricket, looks very plain until you see its wings
	Insect More of the wings
	Wings A little clearer, the grasshopper/locust/cricket thingie that the guide spied.
	Hopper Once more back safely in his tree, wings kept out of sight.
	Lake Can't remember its name, but it was a very pretty lake we paddled round
	Lake The small angular protrusions under the branch are about 30 or so tiny bats that roost there.
	Bats on the lake Okay, on closer inspection I can only see 11 little bats, but they are adorable nevertheless!
	Frog Frog! Or possibly a toad. I can never tell the difference...
DAY FOUR: The luxurious 7am start and the 6 hour delay...
	Arequipa airport The trip home was diverted to Arequipa. I would have complained at the 6 hour delay but the view was worth it.
	Arequipa airport Moonrise over the mountains of Arequipa

Comments

[danian.livejournal.com]

Those are nice photos, thanks for sharing them - I love bats, but could do without the spider.
The only advantage of a digital camera is that you can take 50000 pics in 4 days, of course, you don't actually *see* anything other than your viewfinder...

[lonelybrit]

I adore bats so Sultana really made my day :) One day I will get around to having a digital camera, they do have their advantages at times!

[sweet-exile.livejournal.com]

Excellent pictures, not quite so sure about the 4am start though.

[lonelybrit]

It was a tad painful, though easier than you'd think given that the rooms were all open so you got woken by the sunrise by 6am anyway :)

[princess-s.livejournal.com]

Wow! These are awesome! The bats are so adorable.

But that Spider *shudders* you are braver than I am!

[lonelybrit]

The bats were a definite highlight.

Poor spider, I did feel bad when it got squished, but that's the way life goes at times...

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

Bloody hell! Look at the size of that spider!

For some reason, I thought Caiman's were like guinea pigs or something, although I don't know why given it was clear from the other report they were living in water. *shtugs* this is why I'm not a zoologist

[lonelybrit]

I did have to like how the guide waited until after we'd all got close to take pictures before telling us that actually yes it was deadly poisonous. Ah well :)

Capybara are the giant guinea-pigs, or at least that's how I think of them, zoology isn't my strong point either!