So blog installment 2 of the night is now underway, there was just so much in the past day I can't really wait to do my typical two day blog or else it would be an epic novel. So I'll try to keep it short and sweet and let the pictures do the talking.
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| Bird friend. |
This morning after a lovely skype session with many of my loved ones back home, we headed up to the rain forest for some quality bird time. This was obviously quite a success, and I will refer you to facebook for all the pictures since I find them most amusing.
Before feeding the birds, we had another animal encounter with some delightful alpacas. The friendliest and the one we were actually allowed to meet was Roy, the stud (all the females were pregnant and not in the best mood). The view from the back porch of the alpaca farm was amazing, as were the alpaca wool products in the gift shop, though very much out of my souvenir price range. I wasn't expecting to find Australian alpacas and a gift shop filled with Peruvian made alpaca goods in a rain forest on a mountain, but hey, life's full of surprises.
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| Roy, such a stud |
From the place where we fed the bird you could walk through the rain forest, and while one high alert for leeches, we trecked out into the trees. In the forest there was a treetop walk on suspension bridges with a spot in the middle where you could climb up to the actual tree top and see out.
You were so high and the trees were so thick you could barely find the ground below. All these huge trees in the area had been taken over by strangler figs that germinated over a hundred years ago up in the branches and have slowly wrapped their way around the original host tree and killing it. They look incredibly cool though because they are trees made out of huge vines and
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| The inside of what used to be a tree but is now just the shell of strangler fig vines |
Tomorrow we head to the zoo, so more animal pictures soon.
From the place where we fed the bird you could walk through the rain forest, and while one high alert for leeches, we trecked out into the trees. In the forest there was a treetop walk on suspension bridges with a spot in the middle where you could climb up to the actual tree top and see out. 
You were so high and the trees were so thick you could barely find the ground below. All these huge trees in the area had been taken over by strangler figs that germinated over a hundred years ago up in the branches and have slowly wrapped their way around the original host tree and killing it. They look incredibly cool though because they are trees made out of huge vines and 
Nice photo. I wonder who took it????
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