We spent the past week driving around the the Carretara Fronteriza, a road in the far corner of Chiapas that follows the Guatemalan border. This road encircles the Lacandon Jungle and includes several national parks and the enormous and pristine Monte Azul Biosphere Reserve which is one of the most bio-diverse areas in all of North America.
The region is also one of the last places in North and Central America that supports a thriving population of wild scarlet macaws. We grabbed ourselves a spot in the lovey flat, grassy camping area at the appropriately named Centro Ecoturistico Las Guacamayas and the next morning we were rewarded with up to 10 wild scarlet macaws at a time feeding in a tree literally right next to our tent.
The birds (noisily) came and went for five hours while we sat in our camp chairs and watched them make pigs of themselves above us in the branches. Just in case that wasn’t good enough, a troop of howler monkeys settled into another nearby tree and seemed as curious about us as we were about them. The monkeys even slept there above our tent and the troop male woke us at first light with the spine-tingling howl that gives this monkey its name.
We’ll be posting more about this area soon!
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