Peruvian Amazon - Tambopota-Candamo Reserve Zone (TCRZ)

The blues are hard to ignore. They catch your eye, no matter how dark it is under the canopy.

A colorful Mot Mot got stuck in one of the cabins on the Tambopota Jungle Lodge, giving us a chance to see him without an obscuring forest in the way. After a couple of pictures, he flew into the dense jungle folliage, only to be heard.

Endangered Side-necked turtles line up on a convenient platform in the Tambopata river (Get to close, they all hop off).

The stranger fig tree eventually kills off the host tree, only to leave a hollow the full length of the original tree - enough space to squeeze in between the buttresses and peek out through. (In the hollow there is enough room for three or four people).

During the night, a Boat-billed Heron hunts along the rivers edge.

Red and Green Macaws raise a ruckus, loudly squaking and taking to flight over one of the oxbow lakes of the Tambopota.

Early morning on the Tambopota River. It was quite chilly as a cold front had just blown down from the Cordillera Real. I had on every piece of warm clothing I could find!