VIRTUAL TRAIL

1 – Try to be very quite here. Look through the plastic tube and see the piece of salt we put there to attract animals. Salt is a very scarce resource in this environment; just think about all the butterflies sitting on your shirt or your shoes trying to lick up as much of your salty sweat as possible. It’s not only butterflies that may be attracted to it.--with luck you could see a deer, a peccary or some other animal. The marsh you are crossing is an old, abandoned route of the Capahuari river. Amazonian rivers meander in all directions over time, and all of Amazonia has been worked over by river. There are 2 species here from the Philodendron family (Araceae), each with huge, heart-shaped leaves, one with a trunk, and another with even bigger leaves (Montricardia spp.).