LOS COLORES DE CHIAPAS

The daily downpours are short but intense. After the rains a variety of sounds are heard in the wet, dense jungle. Close by the sound of droplets falling from leaf to leaf provide pleasant melodies and off somewhere in the distance raucous announcements pronounce that the showers has now passed. Through the lush green of the forest crown, a flash of bright colors darts quickly and carefully from branch to branch. The colors belong, of course, to the keel-billed toucan, more quaintly known as "banana bill." It is the "colors" of the tropical jungle that are most memorable in "Los Colores de Chiapas."