Peruvian Amazon

February/ March 2007

Some of the well above average photos

N.B.: There is also a Main Page for this collection of photos from the Peruvian Amazon. There are some pages which you get to from there which you will miss if you only go "downward" from here. I've tried to collect some of the "best" (of course, only one can be "best"!) photos here. Please feel invited to email me with your thoughts. Are deserving photos buried in the "also ran" pages? Are photos here not worthy of their location? (For any photo you have an idea about, please cite its page's ID? The page ID is in the title bar of your browser... this page is "amaz02better.htm")

Typical river view

[Image of red-capped cardinal]

Red-capped cardinal

Typical home. The stilts accomodate the high water, which may cover all dry land for many miles around in many areas. (Known as varsi forest).

The children here may not have TV, or lot of toys... but pets are pretty easy to come by! While boa aren't poisonous, their bite can be nasty in merely mechanical terms, and such bites often lead to infections... and down here, infections in general are not easily solved... one of the things that the Amazon Medical Clinic has to deal with.

[Image of poison arrow frog]

"Poison dart" frog, Dendrobates. Not much larger than thumbnail... but lethal.

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The intrepid travellers return after the "20 minute" walk to the black water lake, in the care of Moses and Grilla, de Casa de Ratones.

There really were two roadside hawks sitting like this... you aren't seeing the fruits of trickery!

[Image of boy with sugarcane]

Rum factory^el guide brings the raw material. (Yes, I've "done things" to this photo... like the effect?)

[Image of ACTS / Explorama canopy walkway, Peru]

The Explorama / ACTS canopy walkway... in places 120 feet above the ground. The point? Up here the habitat is different, so the animals and plants are different.

[Image of river, trees]

I have many, many "scenery" pictures... but if you go to the Peruvian Amazon, I think you'll find yourself taking lots, too! Hour by blissful hour such scenery slipped past us as we cruised the river.

Stick insect, about 10cm long.

Other photos (Not in the first division!) of local humans and their imprint.

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Other photos (Not in the first division!) of humans and travel arrangements associated with Cornell's Adult University trip of Feb/Mar 2007.

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Other photos (Not in the first division!) of other animals

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Other photos (Not in the first division!) of non-animal organisms

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Other photos (Not in the first division!) of scenery

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Other photos (Not in the first division!) of things that didn't fit elsewhere!

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