Colombian Humid Forest

"The mournful and persistent song of the nocturnal curassow, in counterpoint with the happy and deafening croak of the frogs on a rainy night. The luminous roo of the heliconia, which contrasts with the dark green of the vegetation of the lower floor of the forest. The delicious flavor of thousands of tropical fruits, for the most part unknown outside the jungle. The inhabitant of Bogotá says that in Leticia the air smells of sex, and the same expresses the Lima air of Iquitos, in an explicit recognition of the "terrigenous voluptuousness that saturates the very air of the tropical jungle."