dances with butterflies

in coroico, bolivia there are two main day walks to do. one leads up cerro uchimachi - a leg grabbing march up up up through jungle and scrub to a mountain top in the clouds where you can see almost nothing but at least it´s so cold you´ve stopped sweating - and the other to a pair of waterfalls, locally simply known as las cascadas. both of these waterfalls are interupted halfway down by a deep fenced-off reservoir (though the fences have somehwat been pulled apart by eager children and backpackers looking for a chilly dip) that overflows into the jungle below.

at the second cascada Marce and I stopped for lunch. after a few minutes of quiet munching, the dragonflies and butterflies put on a show. this one, in particular, liked me (and later returned to feast or fondle my forearm):