Emerging from four days in the Amazon cloud forest (high-elevation rainforest) in Manu National Park, Peru. The jungle was full of life: four kinds of monkeys, tapirs, agoutis, capybaras, Cayman alligators, and dozens of new birds for my life list (I haven’t had time to sort through the bird pictures yet, they’ll get their own post).
The lodge rooms came with mosquito netting, though oddly enough, I never saw any mosquitoes. But there were a bazillion other insects, which gifted me with at least a dozen insect bites: four from biting flies, two from wasp-like things, one that felt like a sharp bee sting, one from something the size of a Texas cockroach, one fire ant, and the rest of indeterminate origin.
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