The Manu River twists and turns as it heads eastward from its source in the Andes into the Peruvian jungle. The flow of the river has changed dramatically over time with oxbows forming crescent-shaped lakes.
The morning mist rises over the Shinkikibeni River where the Machigenga tribe lives. The Machigenga gain their livelihood from the river and the surrounding jungle.
Tropical figs grow on creeping vines that encircle the trunks of palm trees.
The Manu River in the morning.
The primeval jungle in lowland Peru still has many huge old-growth trees.
Traveling to a Machigenga village by raft.
A Machigenga boy traveling down river by raft.
A Machigenga girl holding two puppies.
A wild turkey caught by a Machigenga hunter.
The machigenga catch large numbers of fish by using poison extracted from roots found in the jungle.
Two peccaries, swine-like animals, killed by a Machigenga hunter.
Butchering a tapir.
A young Machigenga couple with their child.
Every morning hundreds of parakeets gather in Kandamo Nature Reserve where they consume grains of sand that contain minerals that aid in the digestion of nuts. The minerals neutralize alkali in the nuts.
