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After Salkantay, we gave ourselves a few hours of rest and then set off for our next adventure, Manu Biosphere. Rest is overrated anyway, and we were really excited at the thought of spending eight days in the jungle. Having been born and bred in the tropics, I thought that the insect factor would not really faze me- I was going to be proved very wrong indeed. Read on, reader... We left at 4.30 am (another early start) and set off in a coach - there was a dozen or so of us. The Manu Biospehere is a protected reserve in [View Full Entry]

The adventures of TJ and the Beej in South America - Leena Beejadhur | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 3rd 2009 | 85 Views | [diary=433510]

Cock of the rock
Monkeys
Our boat

By ssaidwho
November 6th 2008
Manu  South America » Peru » Cusco » Manu National Park
Just got back to Cusco from the Manu National Park, in the rainforest. First.... Obama won! Huzzah! Great news, we were nervous in the forest about the elections before we got communication at some point the next day. I had figured it would be crazy in the states, but I´m hearing from friends it was more than I imagined. Moving on.... My group included a Swiss couple, a Spanish couple, and another traveler from San Francisco. It was a good group of people along with our guide and other help. Unfortunately I still know only a little Spanish, while everyone else [View Full Entry]

ssaidwho - Steve Abrams | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 6th 2008 | 111 Views | [diary=342385]

another view
obligatory waterfalls
transparent wings

17 - 29 October - Back in Cusco. Shockingly enough, the Cruz del Sur bus arrived on time at five in the morning and we got a transfer with the hostel owner, Yuri, to the hostel. Had a quick shower and somehow managed not to go back to bed but instead headed into town for breakfast and to book a rainforest tour. We got a pretty good deal on an 8 day trip to the rainforest coming in and out by bus (as it saves money, not because I have a newfound love of buses! Much the reverse), so we booked [View Full Entry]

AngharadS - Angharad Schell | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 29th 2008 | 108 Views | [diary=339508]

View of Sacred Valley
Parade
Pre-Incan Chullpas

So we decided to brave it. We are going to overcome our fears of spiders, snakes and other kind of creepy bugs and venture into the amazon basin in the hope of seeing some monkeys. We decided a tour into the Manu national park was the best place for us to get into the jungle, and again our tour was a bright and early 4am start. The first day we travelled up to San Juan where our first eco-lodge was based. On the way we saw peru's famous national bird "the cock of the rock" - these are bright red bird, [View Full Entry]

Magnus and San - Mr & Mrs Dimming | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 20th 2008 | 62 Views | [diary=335218]

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We had an 8-day trip into the Peruvian Amazon, to an area of primary rainforest (untouched by man) called the Manu Reserve zone. On the first day, we met the other three people in our group, and I think it's fair to say it was clear from the outset that we were never going to bond. The first signs came with the rubber boots incident. Simple really. We needed to borrow some rubber boots (aka wellies) for the trip - find a pair in your size, try them on, and bob's your uncle. Except bob wasn't their uncle. You see, they [View Full Entry]

Caipirinhas - Sarah Morse | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 5th 2008 | 93 Views | [diary=302867]

Driving down through the cloud forest
Wedding in Paucartambo
Andean Cock of the Rock!

Jungle Trip into Manu National Park We had a long drive to get to the National Park through stunning mountain scenery and tiny villiages. At the edge of the Park we looked down into the Cloud Forest, an area of jungle with perpetual cloud coverage. This was a stunning sight as we looked down into the valley where the clouds were hovering. We then continued down into the jungle on a tiny track with a sheer drop on one side; this was pretty hair-raising. On the way down we met another group who told us about a spectacled bear shortly [View Full Entry]

Lara and Tash - * | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 19th 2008 | 132 Views | [diary=277733]

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After my week of relaxing in Arequipa I managed to get myself booked onto a Jungle tour with my friends Shelly and James. This was to be a completely different jungle experience from the rescue centre as it was very much geared towards the tourists. Not something I would normally be interested in, but I had four days to use up and was curious to see the amazon from another perspective (plus I fancied a bit of luxury!) We had to fly from Cusco the Puerto Maldonado as the lodge we were staying at was quite deep into the Jungle (15km [View Full Entry]

Sinead N - Sinead Nolan | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 29th 2007 | 133 Views | [diary=231337]

Pretty Girl Posing
One of the Locals
Beautiful Trees

We feel a bit like frauds filling this in now we are back in the UK, but here is the last entry for your enjoyment! After another night in Cuzco we headed off for the Amazon basin and Manu Biosphere Reserve. After another early morning (seems to have been too many of them this trip!) we started out on what would be an 8 hour bus journey up and over the Andes and into the jungle. On the way up we stopped at the highest point to see some pre-inca tombs. There was a restoration project in process which was rebuilding [View Full Entry]

HeatherandPaul - Heather & Paul St.Pierre | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 4th 2007 | 110 Views | [diary=215361]

Jungle
Jungle sleeping hut.
Out on the Lake looking for giant otters

By Peaches
October 28th 2007
Manu Park South America » Peru » Cusco » Manu National Park
Hey guys! I survived the amazon, albeit with many mosquito bites! It was an awesome tour, there were only four of us- a couple from Australia and another canadian girl from ontario. There was alot of traveling involved, the first day I think we were on the road(a very bumpy road) for about 8 hrs and then we took a boat for another 45 min to an hour. We had enough stops along the way though to make it more interesting. We stopped at some old inca tombs- they were actually pre-inca ones that the incas had taken over. We also [View Full Entry]

Peaches - Chelsea CB | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 9th 2007 | 56 Views | [diary=214978]

the hot springs
me and a huge tree
piranah fishing

On Monday we flew from Cusco to Puerto Maldonado (which Jez and Stu have taken to saying in a Terry Cristian-style Manc accent for some unknown reason. You remember him, from The Word) which is not far from the Bolivian border i.e. in the Amazon Jungle. From there it was a 45-minute journey on a motorised canoe, then a 45-minute walk through the rainforest, then a 30-minute canoe ride until we eventually arrived at our destination - Sandoval Lake Lodge. Lake Sandoval is a lake that was formed when the river Madre de Dios (a tributary of the Amazon) changed it´s [View Full Entry]

Jez and Bridget - Jez and Bridget | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 13th 2007 | 176 Views | [diary=210762]

Tarantula
Scorpion spider
Jez and Bridget under a big fig tree.


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