!We got up at 5.30 with the help of John's cellphone. The bad news was the phone didn't stop ringing!
Startingpoint of the long way up
Justino, totaly exhausted and what about his Dad!
Huge mushrooms, I put the machete next to it, which is about 50cm. By the way, I worked with the manchete for a bit. The men worked on their bare feet, "flip flops" or "Crocs" don't go very far on trails this steeps. There were nasty vines with thorns growing over the trail. Found it my job to get rid of them.
And they made it to the top
Cerro Hoya, is the unexplored national park at the south-western end of the Azuero Peninsula. It has an astonishing natural beauty with primary forest and cloud forest. One can even find impressive flora and fauna in the buffer zone.
Bird watchers will be pleased: Cerro Hoya is the only home of the endemic Azuero Painted Parakeet and the Great Green Macaw breeds in large Cuipo trees. And that is just the beginning! Cerro Hoya has some very special mammals, such as the Azuero Soider Monkey and the Azuero Howler Monkey. Other species include the Neo-tropical River Otter, Pumas and some Jaquars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOkgbIy0q1E
Last monday we joined several locals to bring a 200 lb nest (an oildrum like structure) up a mountain in Cerro Hoya. Quite an unusual trip through the rainforst. It took them 2 and half hours to get it to the location, up a muddy trail, a very large tree.
The past couple of days, a group of people have secured it in the tree some 30 meters up. The hope is that the great green macau will nest there.
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