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Recommended travel guides on Peru

Sun setting over Amazon rainforest

Sunset over the rain forest canopy

Late afternoon in the Amazon rainforest

Rain forest canopy in the late afternoon

Parakeets flying over forest canopy

Butterfly in the rainforest canopy

Blue-headed parrot, Pionus menstruus, in the canopy

Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala)

Brazil nut pods

View of rain forest canopy

Amazonian Oropendola (Gymnostinops bifasciatus)

Mealy parrots in flight over rainforest

Amazon sunset over rainforest canopy

Late afternoon in the Amazon rain forest

Rainforest canopy in the late afternoon

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