Yanacocha Reserve

Yanacocha Reserve

At this time of the day the sun is high in the sky and should have warmed up the landscape. Instead the clouds are flowing thick and moist, filtering out most…


Yanacocha Reserve

Yanacocha Reserve

A rare glimpse of the Pichincha Volcano (4784 metres high) which is mostly hidden in dense clouds. It was a very cold morning and I was eagerly awaiting the…


Leaving Napo Wildlife Center

Leaving Napo Wildlife Center

After 3 nights in Yasuni National park this was the very first rain shower! It was perfectly timed, as it started pouring down just as we were switching from…


Napo Wildlife Center

Napo Wildlife Center

There is no sound of engines after you disembark the motorized boat at the welcome center, where the Aanangu creek meets the Napo river. From there all goods…


Napo Wildlife Center

Napo Wildlife Center

A beautiful moonlit night with an almost cloudless sky above the Anangucocha lake. As this is the watery Amazon I should have been pestered by countless…


Napo Wildlife Center

Napo Wildlife Center

A starry night in the Amazon - I never expected a clear night like this! The moon will be full in 2 days - the 10th, which in fact is the date of the lunar…


Napo Wildlife Center

Napo Wildlife Center

Anangucocha lake and cumulus clouds reflecting the light of setting sun. Yasuni National Park-0.525062,-76.44021


Napo Wildlife Center

Napo Wildlife Center

A setting sun in the west and a rising moon in the east, reflected in the Anangucocha lake. If I only had time, I would have made a time-lapse movie of all the…


Pinnacle Rock – Bartolome Island

Pinnacle Rock – Bartolome Island

The iconic and vulcanic formation, with the equally unique Gray matplant (Tiquilia nesiotica) in the foreground - the much larger Santiago Island in the…


Pinnacle Rock – Bartolome Island

Pinnacle Rock – Bartolome Island

Perhaps one of the most peculiar formations on the Galapagos. From afar it looks just like a pinnacle rock, but closing in you'll see strange formations…