South America - (Nov - Dec 2004)

I stayed in this bed for a number of days. I could look out over the forest canopy and watch huge thunder storms roll in each night. The noise of the storms, insects and animals was deafening. Just behind the hut was a creek and waterfall where I did my washing. The humidity was incredible.
This photo is of Iguazu Falls on the border of Brazil and Argentina. I saw it during a huge flood. There was literally kilometers of waterfalls emerging from the jungle and plunging in varous patterns. Everywhere you walked there was a waterfall ranging from groups of thousands of small streams to huge falls that dwarfed Niagra. The river feeding it was 2 kilometers wide.
Everywhere you look in the Amazon you see trees. Endless. Rather than taking dramatic landscape pictures you had to focus on smaller things. If you take it in as a whole it seems too much with nothing standing out from the wall of vegetation. Look closer and you find life surviving at all levels.

Until recently, this was the highest place I had been - about 15,500 feet. This hut sits directly over the equator. Behind me is a glacier.