Sacha Lodge we visited the Canopy
Tower,
an extraordinarily large wooden
scaffolding structure built around
a (still growing) Kapok tree.
Great views were to had from 135 feet up
(and not even quite at the top of this tree!)
over the treetops of the surrounding
rainforest. Almost as extraordinary
was it to admire the bromeliads and
orchids growing on the limbs (still very sizabley
girthed - a branch transplanted onto the
ground might still be considered a large tree
back home in the u.k.) of the kapok tree we had
climbed.
We had some good birdwatching.
Here is one of the photos of which I am most proud:
a pair of many-banded aracaris (photo taken
through a telescope)
and here a much less great photo of a puffbird
a view downwards from our dizzying height...
and, as the sun began to set accompanied by
the roaring - howling - sound of a troop of red howler
monkeys and we descended to the forest floor to head
back to the lodge, a last view back at the tree platform.
The light of the setting sun on
the crown of the kapok tree made it look
somewhat autumnal!
We took a canoe back to the lodge,
with the frog evening chorus to mesmerize us!
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