Designed in 1954 and completed nine years later, it's a stunning, tent-like concrete structure with overlapping roofs that look like stylised leaves falling from the canopy of some sacred grove.
In a jungle there is a continual process of growth and destruction: dead wood keeps falling from the canopy, and one is well advised, during any high wind in the rain-forest, to make for open ground, to seek safety on the river bank.
The trail climbs upward, and hawks' screeches fall like leaves from the canopy.
Rat faeces were observed in the traps only two times and these faeces may have fallen from the tree canopy.
So little light falls through the canopy that not much else can grow.
In the rainy season only 4.7% of the light falling on the canopy reached the ground.
A beaded chandelier drops romantically from the canopy.
Other tubes from the canopy connect to or pass through the skin of the structure below.
It drips from the canopy in globules on to upturned palm leaves and blades of grass.
It climbs slowly down from the canopy, makes a small hole in the ground, and defecates.
