Field Notes

Wildlife

Dispatches from real expeditions: wildlife almost nobody sees, páramos where the water is born, roads that appear in no catalogue.

A cachirre caiman on the shore of a lagoon in Casanare

Wildlife · Casanare

Overland through Colombia: when the road is the destination

Eight pairs of eyes on the shore of a lagoon in Casanare, the Cocuy glacier on the far side of the savanna, and pink dolphins in the Meta River. The story of a journey that only exists if you make it by land.

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Land Cruiser on the track to Chingaza, with camp set up

Wildlife · Chingaza

On the trail of the spectacled bear in Chingaza

Four friends, a Land Cruiser and South America's only bear. They didn't see it. They came back convinced that this counts too.

3 min read