At 8am we said goodbye to everyone at the lodge and headed to the office to say goodbye to Nick and settle up - nothing to pay -indeed he told me I had not used all the money on the inclusive rate we had paid and he owed me money - well that's a first and made payment of the tip very easy - I told him to give the extra to the the staff.....all happy we headed off to the Primatology Centre which is not open to the public but REGUA can arrange trips if you are inte...

Another full day dawned - we set off out of the reserve to Macae de Cima which comprises of an area of montane forest reaching an altitude of 1400m - we stopped at several different altitudes looking for zone specific birds en route to the orchid reserve of the renowned orchid expert David Miller who died last year. We spent a couple of hours birding around his 'hansel and gretal' type house set in a forest clearing. We also ate our packed lunch while watching b...

Another early start but today we were walking the local wetland walk from the lodge and were joined by Chris and Sal who wanted to see what they had missed from their DIY walk yesterday. After breakfast I sat outside and did get to see the tufted eared marmosets feasting on the bananas. We saw lots of forest and wetland birds and yet another sloth, which looked like a brown ball, sleeping in a secopia tree, (see bird list on 30/7/12 for all we saw) When we got ...