Broad based trunks hold the tree up in the thin topsoil

At a Butterfly insectiary in Puerto Maldonado

Taken before dawn from a 120' high observation tower that was shaking almost as much as my knees

The local natives won't cut these down because doing so releases evil spirits that pester you with a vengence.

This was created when the river shifted.

At the confluence of the mighty Madre de Dios and Tambopata Rivers in the Peruvian Amazon Basin. It's very flat; the river only drops 1,800' across the entire continent to the Atlantic Ocean.