Just a little reminder of why eco-tourism is so important to the indigenous people really anywhere we travel. This article originally published by Peru For Less shows how the Ese Eja people in the Tambopata area of Peru have been exploited and cheated by large companies but how they are benefit by eco-lodges such as Refugio Amazonas. I was lucky enough to visit there in 2007 and hope to go back someday.
Birding is often such hard work. Sometimes you have to trek through mud, trudge up a mountain for hours or endure tropical humidity and rainstorms. So even the most hardy birders appreciate when the birds make it easy to see them. Still wild of course – but when you have a lodge such as Refugio Amazonas located in the Peruvian rainforest that attracts birds in the grounds, why not just sit back, relax and enjoy the view?
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For more information, please see my review of Refugio Amazonas. Peru is easily reached with frequent flyer miles.
I think this video was shot in the same bungalow we had, it sure looks like it!