Enjoy -
First to the Amazon jungle...
 Our transportation up the Tambopata River for a 5 hour boat ride into the Amazon Jungle. |
 Life in the jungle is a bit slower than in Anchorage. |
 This tree is wider than a house and over 1000 years old! |
 This is a Dragons Blood tree. It's sap is red and is used as an antiseptic for cuts and wounds. |
 Our guide, Jorge. Equipped with a machete for our jungle hikes. |
 Yep, a parrot... ok, a macaw. |
 A Caiman. We were lucky to see him. |
 A green grasshopper. |
 This bug is camouflaged as a leaf. Pretty cool. |
 Some other strange bug. |
 Baby parrots peeking through a fence. |
 Up close and personal. |
 A Papaya tree. |
 A stick bug on the right and another leaf bug on the left. |
 A tree frog. |
 The inside of a living tree. It grew around another tree which died, leaving a hollow center to this tree! |
 Wild berries with morning dew. |
 The jungle flora and fauna. Incredible biodiversity. |
 A very poisonous caterpillar - looks cool to me. |
 The root of this tree is poisonous to fish but not to man. The native folk used to grate it into a powder and put it into lakes and collect the dead fish. This practice is now forbidden. |