Photo Galleries: Peru, Manu 2007 Steve Hilty

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Peru Manu Part I: The Cloud Forest and Foothills

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Some trips defy the odds, go beyond the expected, beyond imagination. I have led over twenty trips into the Manu region of Peru, and David Wolf, my co-leader, has been on almost a third of these with me, so you might think that the trip would be routine. It wasn't. It never was after Karen yelled, "There's a bear up there," as our bus rumbled around yet another curve in the narrow, rough, single lane mountain road that winds interminably down the steep verdant face of the An... Read More