Monday, July 14, 2008

El Refugio Los Volcanes, Amboro National Park

For three days out of Samaipata, we stayed at a private lodge located in a spectacular area of Amboro National Park, surrounded by steep sandstone hills. The cloud forest was dense, and the walks awesome. Our guide was a young teenager boy of the Bolivian family running the lodge, and he had great skill in hearing and spotting the cloud forest birdlife, and other animal life. The place was very tranquil and peaceful. Throughout the day we heard the frequent calls from flocks of parakeets flying above the forest canopy, of which we definitely identified at least three different species. Tracks of puma were also visible in the soft river sand.