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The half-day we spent at the Antisana Ecological Reserve in the highlands of Ecuador was one of the great highlights of our eight-day trip.  The birds were great but what this post will focus on is the sheer grandeur of the landscape, a landscape that is difficult to describe with just words.  Antisana Ecological Reserve [...]

On the last day on Kazakhstan as we drove from oasis to oasis, birding spot to birding spot, I was amazed at how variable and beautiful the landscape was.  On one ride in the van of a little over an hour we went from semi-desert to some hilly country back out to flat desert steppe.  [...]