Amboró North:  Villa Amboró




A fantastically camouflaged moth in the town square of Buena Vista.




Amanda at a "mirador" (viewpoint) on the most easterly Andean foothill before a sea of Amazon jungle.




Leaf-cutter ants sliced barren trails through the rainforest, often crossing our footpaths.




A slightly blurry view of a interestingly patterned butterfly. 




Close-up peek at a hummingbird nest with two tiny eggs the size of larger jelly beans. 




Amanda carefully works her way along a narrow gorge.




A brilliantly colored moth (genus Cyanopepla) just outside our cabaña at the community ecotourism lodge of Villa Amboró.




A thorny "caminante" or walking tree - they can creep along the jungle floor over the years by growing new roots to lean on.




This winged wonder (a Green Longwing butterfly - Philaethria dido) was soaking up sunshine along the Macuñucu River in Amboró Park.




A pair of squirrel monkeys (bottom left and top right) frolics in the trees.




Rose-colored rock overhangs where our guide's grandfather brought food to civil war refugees.




Just down the trail from the squirrel monkeys, we found a group of black spider monkeys.





A mother looks up at her youngster while she holds down a branch to make it stable for him to walk across and hop from there to the next tree.