Puerto Maldonado马尔多纳多港 Puerto Maldonado

A young caiman by torchlight

Entering the Tambopata National Reserve

Sunset over the river

A great potoo, disguised as a broken branch

A blue-and-yellow macaw in the treetops

A red howler monkey in the riverside trees

A red howler monkey climbing through the branches

A striated heron waiting at the water’s edge

A striated heron hunting along the river

A wattled jacana feeding in the shallows

A pair of hoatzins, the Amazon’s “stinkbirds”

A caiman in the river

Red howler monkeys crossing a canopy bridge

Red howler monkeys resting on the canopy walkway

Night at the jungle lodge

A leafcutter ant carrying a leaf up a tree

A rufescent tiger heron on the riverbank

A wattled jacana on a fallen log

Butterflies drinking minerals from the riverbank mud

A green ibis on the boardwalk

An anhinga drying on a branch

A red howler monkey on the canopy walkway

The Milky Way over the rainforest

Boats at rest on the river.

The river from the canopy.

The last boat home, at sunset.

The same river, a moment later.