Here, you board a bus that crosses the jungle on a well-maintained dirt road. Tapiers, with their elephant-like snouts, are sometimes seen, standing in the middle of the road, motionless, for fear of being seen. After the hour and a half bus ride, and after crossing the Indillana and Rumiyacu rivers, travelers once again get into dugout canoes to ride three and a half hours down the Tiputini River to the Biodiversity Station. Here, the river is narrow and almost a tunnel through the jungle. Giant flourescent blue morpho butterflies flit about and turtles sun on logs at the river's edge.
Egrets fly overhead and monkeys chatter nearby.