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Best piña colada I've ever had. Made with fresh pineapple with nutmeg dusted on top.
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The view from in front of our little room in San Jose del Pacifico
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Camarones al ajo de mojo, or shrimp in garlic sauce.
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Avocado and tuna sushi roll
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Tuna and avocado topped sushi roll
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Octopus and tuna nigiri, simple and excellent.
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Sushi roll with shrimp inside and mango on top.
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Locally caught sashimi
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Natalya is ready to go!
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Chilequiles
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This dog is so awesome.
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Tuna and baked shrimp sushi roll. Really tasty, but kind of missed the point of sushi, in my opinion.
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Civeche tostada
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Church in the old mining town if El Triunfo
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So many tacos!
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This little parakeet came to eat our watermelon seeds while we were taking a break on the way back.
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A traditional house of the indigenous people. The two peaks on the top represent the two snow capped peaks sometimes visible in the nearby Sierra Nevada mountain range.
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Weird, tiny bees. Sadly the end of the tube is over exposed, but that's a wax tube they built, which connects to the hive. If I understood correctly, the natives harvest their honey to flush their eyes out? Weird.
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This stone is a map, the vertical lines represent rivers, horizontal are paths, and the start shapes are villages.
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Our guide telling us a bit about the site before we ascend the 1,200 steep stairs to get there.
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This is a (not so) wild pig that some locals keep as a pet. So cute!
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This tree frog is the color of tree bark with a certain fungus growing on it. Now that's specialization!
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Hostel dog followed us to the waterfall and went swimming.
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Sunset cocktails.
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First sunset!
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These things were everywhere, but really hard to photograph. I think they are rainbow whiptail lizards.
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Iguana!
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Big millipede!
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Tiniest tree frog!
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This is a spider that mimics an ant, apparently to scare off predators. Notice how it holds it's front legs up by its head so they look like an antennas?
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Biggest tree frog yet.
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Sunset!
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Heading out for a sunset swim in laguna grande (literally "big lake").
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A parrot that was rehabilitated after an injury, but now won't leave the lodge.
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The view of our lodge from the top of the birdwatching tower.
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Yellow handed titi monkey!
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Yet another bizarre spider.
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Tamarin monkey!
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Termite nest.
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Crazy vine.
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Our guide, leading us through the swam half of us fell into.
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Tiny tree frog.
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Another weird spider our guide couldn't identify.
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Cacao tree. Those red-ish bulbs are full of cacao beans or nibs, which is what chocolate is made out of.
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Big cyclops fly.
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Done!
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The next few photos are my group making a traditional flatbread from yuca (called cassava by english speakers, not to be confused with yucca, the desert succulent). First we washed the mud off the roots so we could grate them.
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Heliconia flower. I forget what the locals call it...
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Traditional thatched hut under construction.
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A bad picture, but that's an anaconda!
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Pigmy marmoset, second smallest primate in the world!
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Toucan!
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A small heron.
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Under what looks like soap bubbles are a bunch of frog eggs.
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Leafcutter ants! These little red ants are actually fungus farmers, the don't eat the leaves, they use them to grow fungus, which they then eat.
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Another angle of an Amblypygi, taken through a spider (an actual spider, Amblypygi don't spin webs) web.
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Basílica del Voto Nacional (Basilica of the National Vow) is the largest basilica in the Americas. Construction was started in 1892 and finished in 1909.
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Apparently there is a great view of a volcano here, but I wouldn't know!
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Whimbrel.
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Galapagos Penguins.
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I *think* this is a fur seal, rather than a sea lion. It's a bit hard to tell them apart, but the seals are bigger and have a more stubby nose.
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Lava wave.
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Lava tube.
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A small lava cave, formed by a bubble of volcanic gas.
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Golden Cownose Rays.
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Spotted Eagle Ray.
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Yellow Flycatcher.
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Hybrid land / marine iguana. The two species interbreed, but the hybrids are infertile.
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One of 3 or 4 Galapagos green sea turtle I swam with!
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Not a great picture, but that's a stingray in the middle.
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A rare species of land iguana.
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Galapagos Mockingbird.
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One of the infamous Darwin's Finches, which lead to the theory of evolution.
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Red-footed Booby. The only species of booby that can perch in trees.
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Lava lizards mating I think?
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Land Iguana.
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Saddleback Tortoise.
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Galapagos Mockingbird I think?
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Wave albatrosses doing their mating dance.
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Nazca booby with a chick.
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Wave Albatross.
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Nazca booby.
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Swallow-tailed gull.
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Galapagos Hawk.
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Galapagos Dove.
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Galapagos post office. People leave postcards for others to hand deliver!
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This was one of the coolest places I've ever snorkeled, it's called Devil's Crown. The current would pretty much carry you around the rock! We saw white tip reef sharks, sting rays and tons of fish, it was amazing!
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Yellow Geiger.
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Green Sea Urchin.
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Fiddler crabs.
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Prickly Pear cactus. I had no idea they grew tall like this!
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Female laval lizard.
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Blue-footed Booby and a Galapagos Penguin.
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Sally Lightfoot crab, so called because it walks on it's tiptoes. They are black when young, their bright colors only show up as they reach sexual maturity.
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Sea Lions!
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Another lava lizard.
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Great Blue Heron.
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Lava Heron.
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Lava Lizard perched on volcanic rock.
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Juvenile marine iguanas.
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Marine Iguana swimming in a brackish lagoon.
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Marine Iguana.
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Brown Pelican.
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Sea turtle tracks, they come up to the beach to lay eggs.
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Frigate bird. These birds don't have enough oil to protect their flight feathers from the water, so they steal fish from other birds.
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Parked on the edge of a sand cliff!
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This dog followed us for an hour, all the way back the village where we caught the bus.
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Another humming bird, not sure what kind.
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The main plaza.
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Maybe a Short-tailed Emerald Hummingbird?
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Some other terraces that are part of Choquequirao.
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Creepy caterpillar, looks poisonous.
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There were several of the giant black bees just sitting on the flowers. Maybe it was too cold for them to move around?
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The falcon landed.
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Andean falcon!
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A brittlestar.
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This is a salp, which is a little like a jellyfish.
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An imperial shag, which is a type of cormoran. It flies over the water and dives in after fish it sees.
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Climate data collection.
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An adélie penguin.
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This machine was used for research about the ionosphere, which lead to advances in high frequency radio.
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Old school barometer.
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The aptly-named chinstrap penguin.
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Leopard seal having a stretch.
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Whale skeleton!
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Gentoo penguins. By far the most common species we saw.
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The wandering albatross has an average wingspan of over 10 feet, the largest of any bird!
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This was one of the dogs at the Airbnb we stayed at.
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Alyssa making friends with random dogs.
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Nuts how straight some of these vertical cracks are.
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Bird rock.
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Dog head rocks.
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The greenish color of this lagoon is due to high levels of arsenic, which is why there are no flamingos in it.
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A natural hot spring in the middle of nowhere.
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This area is volcanic, and much like Yellowstone in the US, there are steam vents, sulfurous hot springs and geysers all over this valley.
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This woman was the only other person on my tour who spoke English. Needless to say, she was my best friend!
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Apparently the flamingos here turn pink because of high levels of beta-carotene in the algae they eat.
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That's an active volcano, see the little puff of vapor on the left?
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Looks like some alien infestation... Apparently it's just moss though.
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Train line heading to Chile.
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Sunrise!
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This is where we stayed the first night, also made out of salt.
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About fifteen minutes after I took this picture, the storm caught up with us. Luckily we just got the edge of it, so it wasn't too bad. Later that night I saw the lightning from this storm striking two to five seconds apart... This went on for hours! I have never seen a thunderstorm so intense.
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Three of us from the group swam into this crevice and climbed over a bolder to see a really cool waterfall. Totally awesome, but the water was really cold and I was in mild shock by the time I got out.
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This dog came with another group, but fell asleep and got left behind. He didn't seem to concerned and clearly knew the way home.
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Looking downstream from our lunch spot. Just past those boulders there was a small waterfall with a big pool at the bottom. After someone jumped from the top so I it was deep enough, I jumped as well.
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The waterfall where we ate lunch and had time to swim.
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I had a really hard time getting my camera to get a decent picture of this waterfall. In the end I used a really large aperture, which is why all spray from the water so visible.
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Another viscacha. If you look in the lower left, through the gap in the cactus, you can see one of its babies.
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These faded cave paintings are supposed to be over one thousand years old.
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This is a viscacha, which only lives in the rocky areas of the Andes. It's a bit like a rabbit, but it has a long tail. There is a better picture of another one a little later in this set.
