After enjoying our breakfast featuring local tropical fruits and juices, we explored the Amazonian tropical rain forest by foot. After embarking paddle canoes, we crossed a lagoon surrounded by lush vegetation and tall trees. We arrived to a magnificent trail with well-preserved jungle. Our local guides showed us once more some of the secrets of one of the most diverse ecosystems in the planet.
As we continued walking along the trail, we practiced our photographic skills by finding many small creatures like frogs, insects, spiders on their webs, and plants. We discovered that the macro settings on our cameras can be great fun and we can capture miniature beauties that are difficult to see with our naked eyes.
Part of the trail is made of hanging bridges that go halfway up into the green canopy. From here we had a great perspective of the different species of trees and palms and we could hear some mysterious birdcalls. Occasionally Morpho butterflies would fly by like metallic blue lighting across the jungle.
For the afternoon we explored the channels by skiff and kayak. From both watercrafts we found some of the shy forest creatures. We saw great black hawks, black collared hawks, cocoi and black capped herons, aracaris, black faced nunbirds, flycatchers, and countless parrots and parakeets that flew overhead emitting very distinctive sounds.
From the skiffs, when we were heading back to Delfin II, we had a glimpse of a pink river dolphin, and encountered two very large groups of squirrel monkeys. The tiny primates are hard to find at first, and gradually we see more and more of them jumping from branch to branch as they travel. We estimated that one of the groups had around 50 to 70 individuals. What a great way of ending one more day exploring the Peruvian Amazon River!
