After breakfast, we traveled by taxi to Chachapoyas. It was a beautiful ride through country that would be a playground for any geologist. We´re staying at the Gran Hotel Vilaya, a dismal but safe place that´s close to the main plaza. After fighting with the laptop for a couple of hours (the advertised ¨free hotel wi-fi¨is a joke), we wandered down to the plaza for lunch. Stopped by the Amazonas office of the INC and had a long chat with the staff archaeologist about the work going on at Kuelap. Then made arrangements with a travel agency for a day trip to Kuelap tomorrow. The internet cafes in this part of the country are maddeningly slow, but I´ll try to post photos once we´re back in Lima on Saturday.
3 comments:
A spatula tailed hummingbird ... I know that must have been beautiful.
As a fellow avian geek, I must admit that the annual Audubon Bird counts in the tropical jungles of Panama were one of my fav secret obsessions!
Sounds like you are doing great....knee and all. Hope you are hanging in well!
Now, if only you could find a whisk-tailed bird, in a nest with some eggs, you could whip up a great breakfast...
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