One jeep takes probably 4-5 trips to haul all our luggage and the 10 of us up to the top, where our faithful bus awaits. Im glad were not spending the night. we all have breakfast together and the others go out, while I go back to bed to catch up on my sleep. But you never drive it straight through. After a while Richard and I walk back down the steep driveway and turn right to the waterfalls, maybe 400-500m up the road. I walk ahead and disappear into the fog. But David and I put out plenty of shrimp, pee and spitwads, and stuff is coming in. We also stop for lunch at one of the nice Los Llanos restaurants, which serves beef and more beef. They put on a great show, several flying out early, then back and forth. I think he will be glad to see the last of us. Day 1 Oct 19 take a midnight flight from LAX to Panama on Copa, then connect to Lima, arriving in Lima about 1pm on the 20th. We stumble around in the forest for an hour or so, not much is happening, but then around 10am out pops the sun, and things get crazy really fast. We come to a small house and see another truck from Regua, the one we were in yesterday, so we know another birding client, Malcom, is up here with the bird guide. fly to Santa Marta, Avianca has 1 flight/day direct from Medellin. But John, when he found out from Davids family that I was held up and not going to make it, he cleverly called United here in the US and gave them a heads up, so they gave me full credit. in one pile is mind blowing, at least to me. Cant have everything. It looks like it hasnt rained much here at all, the sun is out and we have a great day. The road becomes dirt, dusty and slow, so we start looking for butterflies. Hooray, they are here in the rain, each sitting under a grass stem. Two new ones for me! We go swimming, a perfect temperature, and wait for the oil birds to come out at dusk. A nice end to a great trip. This time when I arrive in Bogota on the United flight from Houston I wait for my luggage and it doesnt show. Im not too impressed w/the Forest agencys attention to details. They even have bird feeders, where they put out bananas for the tanagers. Weather is nice in Miami, so I should at least get that far, where I have a hotel for the night at the Comfort Suites. We stop, put out bait, and have a great morning. One of my other favorites here is Elzunia humboldt, a spectacular Ithomiinae that looks more like a swallowtail. Yesterday we had some rain late afternoon and evening, and this morning the road is wet, with a few puddles around, and it seems to be bringing out the skippers. We take the left turn to the water plant, Eughenis do Agua, and wander around the pretty gardens and nice houses on bumpy roads, finally finding a track that heads into the forest. This appears to be our weather pattern over the next several days bright sunny mornings with clouds building and rain by 1pm. We stop at a couple of places to look for bugs, but its too cool at the high Ticlio pass, 4900m, and we only see a pair of Colias. We spend at least an hour+ photographing around the buildings on top, including a great pee spot on the side. The turnoff is at km post 70 on the main road from Florencia, which is about 25 minutes from the hotel, to the right coming from town. We get great shots of Catasticta superba as well, dorsal and ventral, and at least 1 C.cora that poses for the Wades. We drive into town and Bill goes shopping, then we have lunch at another pay by the kilo place. Its ironic, weve been in several relatively isolated pousadas and had internet, at least part of the time, but here in town we dont have it. This is hanging out around the toilets, always a good place to check, with a couple of Callicore and the beautiful Polygrapha cyanea. I think these morphos are different than what we had at Montezuma. It doesnt have any white on it, like the P.socrates Ive seen before, so Im assuming it is P.romula. The sun is brilliant at dawn and it stays sunny until 1 or 2pm. We have a number of dry habitat species, like Strymon michelle, and a skipper, Oarisma boeta, that Ive only seen at Gocta, north western Peru, another dry location. But the road goes on and on, we pass the 40km marking, no town. Bill and Roger find the. It is confusing here, as we keep slipping back and forth between states, going from Sao Paulo to Minas Gerais then a few turns later back to Sao Paulo. This morning it is bright and sunny. Poor David puts out tons of spitwads, pee and some shrimp bait, but nothing seems to be interested in any of the bait. One fascinating aspect of these Bolivian high elevation satyrs is that several of them, in different genera, have the VFW a bright rufous, which Ive not seen before. I photograph them untouched, in the water, then pick them up and shoot both sides. Kurt really wants to see it, and of course we dont have any at all once they have joined the group. These, can be tricky to shoot, as this species has lots of reflective blue on the wing. We get back to the hotel and have some half ass lunch stuff, chocolate spread on crackers and oranges. 9 species of Perisama, and tons of other stuff. I cant eat half of what they serve, the portions are too large. , dont know why I missed it. Many of the species here are the same as in Mexico, but different subspecies. We can loop around on the trail and meet up with Dan and Kay. Weve had mostly perfect weather, brilliant sunny days and cool, star filled nights. So were all together for breakfast the next day. Huge plates of fresh tomatoes, avocado and butter lettuce with a perfect vingear and herb topping, I could just eat that for dinner. So Pablo calls the driver, who is waiting for us when we come back out to meet him in the pasture about 3:15. And the beach is good for different species all day long. Jorge Bizarro, their local butterfly guide, likes to walk in only flipflops, and he brushes the snake. Even in the heavier rain we find lots of butterflies hiding under leaves. If you add two 3 lofts on the gable ends of the shed, that will give you an additional 80 square feet of storage space. Tonight we have round 2 of the lasagna, with more lemon pie for dessert. It is a big bird that looks like it is wearing a brilliant red scarf, all fluffed up around the neck. The mountains twist around here, and I am completely backward. The guys on my trips often bring a large mouth bottle so they can pee in it at night, then they have an extra bottle to bring in the field and put wherever they like. Oh well, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. Hes really into the owls. But that may be because we arent working a streamside. We want to work the river, but it is Saturday and the river banks fill up quickly w/swimmers and families picnicking for the day, so we move on. The butterflies are quite different between the two places, so they compliment each other. The owner of Alejandria is a reiki master, so Eileen gets a massage from him after lunch. So it is a large loop, maybe 3 km. Our 2nd morning is not quite as sunny, but we get some different butterflies than yesterday. We also had some nice stuff up by the gate, where you have to cross the river again and the trail heads up into darker woods. It is an interesting hike, but a bit more strenuous than we had bargained for. All in all a great day for us. The local developer and arts patron has turned a sprawling warehouse complex in dusty Al Quoz into a buzzing gallery and cultural campus that also features a theatre, an indie cinema, cafes and a chocolate factory. This is a good one. There is a small swampy area just past a small wooden bridge. But the big advantage is the cows have pooped in several places up the hill, and we start to find some nice butterflies spread out along the poop. David had baited it right before lunch, and we had seen a new Ancyluris for us, A.miniola. Shes out of international minutes. One day was overcast and cool, but the others have dawned clear. This looks like a wonderful spot to hang out, if we had some sun. After lunch we drive back to Medellin and have our final dinner at C&W. We had a lovely big bowl of fruit our first morning here, but nothing since. They obviously had a great time making it. She has been collecting here in Bolivia for many years. Dan and I then walk back up the road to the bridge and the fenced property and go on the small trail to the left of their wall. Later that same morning, after a close encounter with a very fresh, that lets us lift his hindwing, we drive a little bit further down the road and park at an abandoned building with a sign Pro-Bocaina. Everyone gets great shots and all is well. There are many more walkers, bikers, horseback riders, etc on the road today, being a Sunday. We leave all our stuff, computers and packs and money, in the car, no problem. David baits up the road and we walk it up a ways, waiting for it to clear, but it never does. It appears to be blue above, like a Prepona. And big. Richard goes back and gets the car and we drive 20 minutes or more up the track. So we have a good day, probably our best butterfly day here in Mitu. We see fewer satyrs here and some new stuff. Where to eat near the Burj Khalifa Day 20 Sept 7 we leave after breakfast and drive to Queremal town, a simple little town with a decent hotel, the Hotel Campanario right on the corner in the main street through town. Hes developed the technique of drive-by spitwads, chewing them up and splatting them out of the car window as we slowly go by, but most of the spitwads dont seem to attract much. Back to the land of satyrs. At the Top Observation Deck Were lucky that it didnt pour for our hike out. After lunch we go to Pozo Azul. Uber and Daisy, the couple who run this ProAves reserve, have done a great job taking of us, we will miss them. He is watching over us like a benevolent god, kind of a nice feeling. Not a steady stream of cars, but every 10 minutes or so. Later that afternoon Richard wants to go look for Narope at dusk, so we head out about 6:45pm. Most days Juan calls and picks me up on his way home from work at 5:30 or so, than we work all evening on designing layouts for pdfs, combining our photos, and hes showing me how to use Lightroom and gimp. We ask permission to go down a track, which a guy working there gives us, and we see more Sarbia zipping around the clearing around the house. He waits and flashes them when there are a bunch coming out the entrance, and they dive back in to the cave. Timed tickets are available at the ticket counter and often sell out quickly. One of the black and white ones w/red crescents, well have to work it out. We get back to the hotel early and go have lunch about 1pm. Mon Sep 21 we have a special safari vehicle for the next 2 days, so were all in our own seat on the outside with lots of room to stand up and see, much better for photography. Hes electric blue, and he keeps floating across the sunlite trail over my head, teasing me, but wont give me a good photo opportunity. By mid morning the beach is unbelievable. Pablo had hoped for butterflies on the rocks, but it is too cool, and there are other people wandering around. We do our final packing and leave the hotel at mid day, then head back up to El Faro and El 18, then stop at the same restaurant for lunch with the hummingbird feeders. The doctor in Chulumani was treating him for a regular tourist bug, and it was something a bit nastier. The hairstreaks dont show up until about 11am, then suddenly we have quite a few. However were told they are still maintaining the bird feeders, we shall see. My flight isnt cheap, at US$130 one way. 2 days before we had a heavy rain, and one of the little villages we drove through had lost several houses. For example, Ive seen, here by the big waterfall several times, a satyr with a lot of white below, very pretty, but never in Pozuzo. We speak Spanish all day and the guys correct me when I mess up, so its great. They shut off the power, so the fireworks looked better, and the others all said they were the most amazing, longest, loudest fireworks they ever saw. We had seen signs about it in the town of Apio, on our way in, but it was only for the 25th. He has probably the best collection in Colombia, 3 huge greenhouses full of unique and spectacular orchids. After lunch at the hotel, (which is sort of cafeteria style, you get what they give you and go get your plates, then return your dirty dishes to the window) we walk a bit down the road back to the intersection and take a right towards the river and the bridge. Its about 103-105, so it feels quite warm getting in, but perfect once youre in it, very relaxing. Day 56 Oct 13 7:30 departure for Chicaque Parque Natural. Our hotel is about 5 km before we get to town, the same one we used for trip 1. Jorge leads us up a dirt track inside the entrance, we drive up a bit under 5km then walk up 5-10 minutes to a beautiful steep narrow ravine with nice forest. It takes about 5-6 hours, as we have to take a detour through the mountains on a slow, twisty road. We drop 1,200 down to the stream bridge, then climb 200-300 back up to the lodge. Its one and a half to two hours to the airport from Richards house, so we depart in the dark. Probably the best is a new species for me. It is amazing, and extremely well done. There are many cheaper places to eat, including KFC and Dominos. A friend ids it later as. The main trail takes off from behind our top cabins, of 3 sets of cabins, and goes 200m to a tower, then another 100m to a junction. We walk up the valley, gradually passing little fincas and pastures, and cross the final big new swinging bridge to the lodge. I see a green headed Staphylus, but cant get a photo. There are many little Staphylus zipping around, and other second growth species. It is cooperative, landing on several of us and hanging around by the bus much of the morning. Except for big black and red fruitcrows everywhere. It is another private reserve and had some interesting butterflies, so this trip we scheduled in 2 nights in a hotel in town so we have 1 day and a half to explore the trails. Lots of other goodies too. Tonight its the group farewell to Bogota restaurants, and I suspect the vote will be to go back to the Wok. Several brown spreadwings are hopping around, including a new. They make delicious hot chocolate here. But well survive. Willie, being the pig that he is, orders their foundade de chocolate, which is one of those volcanos of collapsing hot chocolate cake. Theyre happy to oblige, just appears they never thought someone might want that item, like plates to eat from. The road is lined with trash in several places, but we see Parapedaliodes parepa, with orange along both wings, posing in the road several times. We hire a taxi to lead us to the lodge, which is a bit outside of town up a 2.6 bad dirt road, following signs to Cordillera Escalara. Pablo has preordered pollo a la plancha, which takes a while to get, and we drink more delicious juice drinks while we wait. It is soft ice cream from a machine, but they have passionfruit and its pretty tasty. 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Fortunately our first dinner is very good, pollo a la plancha and a delicious salad with lots of veggies, and great hot french fries, of which we eat several platters. (It would be nice if the rooms had fans, not so much for cooling but just to move the humid air.) Below is a quote of how they split the elevations. We pick usp another local driver who says he can get us through. Just a creek full of waist high sawgrass. Difficult to shoot it, as if you use flash the color is too bright, and if you dont use flash it is soft focus in the low light. We see many of the same species as at the Dusky Starfrontlet lodge, but some different ones. This puts us in satyrland, and thats the main things we see today, tons of high elevation satyrs. It is disappointing that we cant get up to the good forest, but such is life. But he is sure, and he knows it much better than me. our second attempt to drive up into the mountains west of Satipo. All in all Los Volcanes is a beautiful spot, one of the prettier places Ive been. David baits the trail up maybe a km or so, and we spend the morning tromping up and down, trying to stay out of the way of the locals. They have had several washouts, so now it is almost impossible for a vehicle to drive on it. Some of the guys, who shall remain nameless, actually have two magnus in the same day, which is just too decadent for me. I have the famous chigger rx cream from Texas, but Pablo suggests the menthol cream, so I figure why not try it. But now we have dozens, quite a number of species, so we spend an hour or more photographing a very short part of the trail. Afterwards were still finding goodies until 4pm or so, when I return to my cabin. It does knock down the itching, about the same as my stuff from home. I had photographed the red, gummy bear larvae on this same bush in October 2010, so it is very interesting to see the pupa, like little chocolate goodies all over the leaves. Exhibitionist & Voyeur 07/13/17: Daisy Lighthouse Ch. I may have missed seeing them, but as I get everybodys photos, I dont mind. Wed Sep 30 drive up into the Drakensberg mountains for 2 nights at Karmichael B&B at about 5,000. This is a private reserve with a hotel and restaurant, a very popular swimming hole along a beautiful river. Day 22, Friday May 30 our last day at Montezuma, were sad to leave. I was last here 6 years ago, and Thierry has upgraded it quite a bit. It is good for tigerwings, even though it is overcast. We plan to check out the road to the old Simon hotel, where they found the. A few other goodies come to the pee as well, the Mimoides lysithous is planted. While the mountainside below us is mostly farmland and pasture, there is a band of native moist habitat along the ridge, and we get several good things. Anyway, we get to the headquarters, which can be really good for butterflies by around 9am, when the sun hits the yard. Another clear morning, so everyone gets wonderful scenery shots of the mountains. We leave Marica at 6am, get to Regua about 7:30 to pick him up, then drive to Tres Picos State Park another hour plus away. The 2 gas stations we pass are out of fuel and filled with parked trucks. He provides a college student, Arian, who shows us the road up to the hydroelectric watershed and preserve. Fortunately Davids wife called from Canada last night, and David asked her to write him. Salad, hooray, with a very tasty light vineagrette on it w/avocadoes. The showers are nice, Bolivia has the best suicide showers Ive ever had, nice and hot and plenty of water pressure. Day 26 Nov 13 after not a great nights sleep, we meet for 7am breakfast. But the property owners are around, there is a small pool where people are swimming, so its relatively safe. They all take off late that afternoon, so were on our own for dinner at the lodge. When it comes cialis generic no prescription to buying these two tablets online, it is your personal preference. We didnt see them again, which was a good thing, but we kept an eye out for the rest of the day. This is right above 2600m, just below the power line, as high as the groups usually go. XXXphoto of road. Before I was here during the week and no one was about but us, so we had lots of opportunities to crawl around in the mud and photograph, but not today. Of course it gets foggy the moment we drive up. The good forest only goes maybe 5 km. We also get the fabulous blue and purplish big Morphos at the waterfall, menelaus and anaxibia, sailing up and down the ravine and sometimes coming very close to you on the bridge. Tony is concentrating on shooting one group of butterflies when a woman comes down the road herding several large cows, and one of the cows wants to investigate what Tony is doing. We go straight to Bosque Bremen, which is only about 45 minutes from Solento. It is nice and wooded, and we go down into the woods where there is a lek of tigerwings, mostly. The posts numbers are decreasing, starting about 73 at the turnoff and going up to the pass at about 40, then down the other side to the small town of Guadalupe. Ive been here several times before. I go straight a bit and find a stunning male Myscelia orsis displaying on a bit of the trail. We walk trails down around the lakes/wetlands that Nicholas has been building. We get back back and depart about 11am, 2 hours back to the main road where we eat lunch at the same restaurant, La Mayoria del San Juan in Penalisa, then about 3 hours more to Manizales. One of those great memories. Federico pretty much just speaks to me in Spanish, though if I have questions he will explain it in English. There are also six digital telescopes that use HD cameras with a high zoom to zero in on places outside the cityscape. We found the number and address online, the same website where we got this guys emergency number, and Bob went to an office with guards, secretaries, an official who took his credit card and had him fill out forms. Shes going to Pueblo Rico, the nearest town an hour away. If I was to come back I would definitely eat here, instead of bringing sandwiches. I think the forest is better higher up. Hes made up a bunch of bait, mostly urine, dead fish, and lemonade, before we came, so it is getting good and ripe. By then we are within a km or so of the hotel, so we jump in the truck and hightail it for home. Dan finds the first one, on a pee spot, and later Jim finds 4 on the same rock in the middle of the road. I head over the small rise, about 60-70 meters up from the house, and then drop down 130m to the bridge. They generate their own power from their waterfall, and we even have internet, 8 km up a bad dirt road. Gil gets some photos of them on the walls, but it was better when sunny in the morning on my previous trip. Later we work our way down to several other spots, and hit the jackpot at 2250m at 57.265 km, where a stream runs across the road. We see the blossomcrown hummer there, and lots of flowerpiercers. We leave the porch lights on when we go to dinner, and when we return each night the porch is covered with lots of moths. We find Saliana hewitsoni on the trail, same as November, this must be a good place for this species. Yikes. We then head up to the Catastica wall at km 51, but by then it has gotten dark, and we strike out. He and Pablo were talking about arranging a shared taxi to take me and Priscilla (who flies to Bogota for her connection the next afternoon), but I felt it was too much hassle, so I said I would just work on photos in my room. This is after the pavement ends, after another pousada or Chez Brunno, another simple restaurant. We stop in Llano Grande at the mariposarium, or butterfly house. It will be interesting to see what we find when Im back here in a few weeks with the Wades. The guys go back out late in the afternoon, about 3pm, back to my ant spot, and get a goodly number of shots. Ive only seen this genus once before in southeast Peru. My theory is they are up on top, in the canopy, then when it gets too hot late morning they drop down into the shade near the ground. The hits keep coming after lunch, and I finally make it back to my room about 4 and crash for a nap. Day 23 Thur June 2 we drive 30-45 minutes up to Bosque de Sholett, a preserved patch of forest above Oxapampa about 2400m at the top. Bill pulled down some white daisies and we shot a lovely. We leave Marica at 6am, get to Regua about 7:30 to pick him up, then drive to Tres Picos State Park another hour plus away. I take over 500 myself. We find a number of species that are not on their list, however. If they are going to have groups of visitors for day trips, ProAves needs to provide keys to the rooms, as obviously they arent secure. It may be the time of the year. We park at a gated area for the park employees and walk in past the nice houses and manicured grounds, nice place they have here for themselves. We fight our way through Lima traffic to get to our hotel, Mama Panchita, which is closer to the airport than Miraflores. And the food tonight at dinner is delicious. This is a pretty white building with a bunch of different rooms, quite nice. So there goes the drivers profit for the day. Day 1 Wed Nov 6 fly from McAllen to Dallas to Miami to catch the American 10:45pm overnight flight to La Paz, arriving at 6:20am on the 7th. The rooms are nice, the showers are great, and we have a tasty meal in the hotel dining room. Then a bit higher is Rio Vinto about 2250m. We find other things all morning long, but not the numbers Ive seen in late summer/fall. But we slept the night before fairly high, and weve been at altitude for much of this trip, so we are somewhat used to it. Good thing I had been here a couple of times. Im interested in the upper tropical, subtropical and temperate elevations. Were so full from lunch we tell our hotel most of us just want soup and salad for dinner. As we first get to the km 12 stream, David finds a bug Ive been wanting to see for years, Siseme militaris, a stunning riodinid that is blue with an orange streak, just gorgeous and fresh. One of the best is a new Anteros for both Juan and me. There are kilometer posts increasing as you go down past the town of Paucartambo, where the numbers start at zero. David and Wendy also get a gorgeous new skipper, Enosis dognini, Im jealous. We slather the pesto sauce on the fresh crunchy bread, and our lasagna as well. And he is very cooperative, he wants the pee so he poses for a thousand photos, even letting us lift his wing with a stick so we can get ventrals. Back at our camp, fortunately we have a good cook, and she makes tasty dinner. It gets cloudy by mid-morning, but we still find a few different species. . There is major road building going on, were lucky to only hit 1 waiting spot, as there is lots of 1 way sections. I arrive about 3pm and Veronica picks me up and takes me to her lovely house where 4 of us are spending a week or so, chasing butterflies and eating tasty Mexican food. David baits all down the hill to the bridge and up the other side, and by lunch it is seething with nymphalids. Plus we have to go to Pereira, so we dont have the option of leaving early unless we want to camp out at the airport. We also have a huge, fresh swallowtail, Heraclides thoas cinyras, a different ssp from the one were used to, posing flat out for quite a while. And it continues raining at 8:30am. We take the jeep to La Clarita, the 1700m bridge, what we call the 2nd bridge. We drive in a km or 2, then get out and walk. 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