The lowland section of the trail
The third section of the trail descends into the tropical forest zone. There are a great deal of microhabitats here with sheltered gullies being very humid and lush and exposed slopes often dry and fire-prone. Plant and animal life here is quite diverse.
A tropical river gorge
A suspension bridge at the end of the trail. This bridge was in the town of Chairo and is the end terminus of the trail.
The Matapalo... stranglerfig. The tree grew from the upper brances of the host tree down and eventually killed the host tree.
Ferns
The trail winding through thick, tropical vegetation. There were many species of birds along this section of the trail including toucans, tanagers and barbets.
A yellow flower growing in the moist soil along a streambank....
Walking into a hamlet, eager for shade
A house on a bend in the trail. There were not many houses but most of them has a small store and we bought a coke or cookies to leave some cash with the subsistence farmers along the trail.... one thing that was frustrating was seeing how many of them did their field burning in a very irresponsible way and the fires often got out of control and spread across the mountainsides....
This section of the trail was cut straight out of the rocky mountainside
A trail descending into the rinconada
M on a suspension bridge
Johnny heating up the chuños
A fist-sized, live land snail. Found among ferns. Slimy
A tropical river gorge
A suspension bridge at the end of the trail. This bridge was in the town of Chairo and is the end terminus of the trail.
The Matapalo... stranglerfig. The tree grew from the upper brances of the host tree down and eventually killed the host tree.
Ferns
The trail winding through thick, tropical vegetation. There were many species of birds along this section of the trail including toucans, tanagers and barbets.
A yellow flower growing in the moist soil along a streambank....
Walking into a hamlet, eager for shade
A house on a bend in the trail. There were not many houses but most of them has a small store and we bought a coke or cookies to leave some cash with the subsistence farmers along the trail.... one thing that was frustrating was seeing how many of them did their field burning in a very irresponsible way and the fires often got out of control and spread across the mountainsides....
This section of the trail was cut straight out of the rocky mountainside
A trail descending into the rinconada
M on a suspension bridge
Johnny heating up the chuños
A fist-sized, live land snail. Found among ferns. Slimy
A tree fern in front of the valley
A lush carpet of small ferns
A hidden brook descending one of the gullies
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