Bird watching in the Choco Rainforest, and area of Cloud Forest in the Pichincha Province, Ecuador, South America

Mashpi Lodge Sky Bike on a misty morning in the Choco Rainforest, an area of Cloud Forest in Pichincha Province, Ecuador, South America

Waterfall San Vincente in an area of jungle called Mashpi Cloud Forest in the Choco Rainforest, Ecuador, South America

Mashpi Lodge Sky Bike on a misty morning in the Choco Rainforest, an area of Cloud Forest in Pichincha Province, Ecuador, South America

Mashpi Lodge Sky Bike station on a misty morning in the Choco Rainforest, Pichincha Province, Ecuador, South America

Cucharillos Waterfall in the Mashpi Cloud Forest area of the Choco Rainforest, Ecuador, South America

Mashpi Lodge Sky Bike in the Choco Rainforest, an area of Cloud Forest in the Pichincha Province of Ecuador, South America

Tree frog in the Mashpi Cloud Forest area of the Choco Rainforest, Pichincha Province, Ecuador, South America

Tourists swimming under Cucharillos Waterfall, Choco Rainforest, Mashpi Cloud Forest, Pichincha Province, Ecuador, South America

Mashpi Lodge, Choco Cloud Forest, a rainforest in the Pichincha Province of Ecuador, South America

Mashpi Lodge Sky Bike in the Choco Rainforest, an area of Cloud Forest in the Pichincha Province of Ecuador, South America

A tourist bathes in a cold rainforest waterfall in Nuqui on December 8, 2005. Nuquï· is a small town on Colombia's isolated and untamed Pacific coast, an area sandwiched between endless miles of trackless rainforest and the Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Dennis Drenner, Aurora).

Bosque Mindo-Nambillo a protected reserve of sub-tropical cloud forest at 2500' on western slopes of the Andes in the Choco Bio-region, North of Quito, Highlands, Ecuador

Bosque Mindo-Nambillo a protected reserve of sub-tropical cloud forest at 2500' on western slopes of the Andes in the Choco Bio-region, North of Quito, Highlands, Ecuador

Bosque Mindo-Nambillo a protected reserve of sub-tropical cloud forest at 2500' on western slopes of the Andes in the Choco Bio-region, North of Quito, Highlands, Ecuador

Bosque Mindo-Nambillo a protected reserve of sub-tropical cloud forest at 2500' on western slopes of the Andes in the Choco Bio-region, North of Quito, Highlands, Ecuador

Bosque Mindo-Nambillo a protected reserve of sub-tropical cloud forest at 2500' on western slopes of the Andes in the Choco Bio-region, North of Quito, Highlands, Ecuador

Afro-Ecuadorians in the lowland rainforest near Esmeraldas on the western slopes of the Andes in the Choco Bio-region, North of Quito, Highlands, Ecuador

Bosque Mindo-Nambillo a protected reserve of sub-tropical cloud forest at 2500' on western slopes of the Andes in the Choco Bio-region, North of Quito, Highlands, Ecuador

Pacific coastal rainforest on the western slopes of the Andes in the Choco Bio-region Afro-Ecuadorians cutting balsa trunks, North of Quito, Highlands, Ecuador