Mud and Humidity

The farm we were staying on in Cerro de la Muerte is called Cuerici. It's got a large chunk of primary oak/bamboo forest. It's also a working trout farm where they raise rainbow trout. The property has two large buildings, one that has the kitchen and sleeping areas, the other is a big, barn-like building that was our lab. It has a fireplace that we all crowded around. It was really pretty cold in the mornings and evenings.
Raising blackberries is a big industry in this area, and lots of forest has been converted to big patches of the stuff. But the good side is that most meals have some blackberry component: juice, jam, etc.
We headed up to the real highlands, the paramo, where the vegetation is just shrubby groundcover. It's biologically a bog or a heath biome. We did some very silly pollination studies where we captured bees and tried to make them visit flowers. The bees were definitely not into it. I'll say more next time.
We're also at that point in the course where all the single people are coupling up, much to the annoyance of the rest of us. We are learning the likely places to look for our field mates in the morning when it's time to get to work.