Bamboo for goalposts

The scenery around and in the reserve is stunning and even after walking, scrambling, falling, sweating and squelching (I sweated so much in my wellies that after an hour or so the sweat from my feet made them squelch and probably scared off any monkeys that we might have seen) for up to 5 hours a day we were still in awe of the cloud forest. The best footwear, by the way, are wellies, because of the mud, streams, rocks, foliage and snakes underfoot these are like all terrain vehicles (but not driven in and around Gatley - Ste and Neil!)

In order to look for the monkeys and so that the data for Sussex Uni is accurate, there are certain routes you take. Sometimes we walked for nearly 2 hours from the research station just to reach the start of a trail.

The bottom pic is of the football pitch at Magdalena Alto, (the nearest village) which can´t be reached by road either, on our way back yesterday. I realsied after a few days just how remote we were when when one of the books in the kitchen was called "Donde no hay medico" which translates as "Where there´s no doctor."