The sunriseburned redin apuresky, the shadows on the rim ofthe wood-lot were darkly blue, and beyond thewhiteand scintillating fields patchesof far-off foresthunglikesmoke.
The next day in the five-million acre Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, the sun burned bright, giving an electric glow to the throbbing canopy where parakeets swooped, sloths napped and tamarind and red howler monkeys played.