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When they say the roar of the jungle, I now understand what they mean. We slept for 3 nights in a lodge set deep in the rainforest, right on the banks of Lake Sandoval, called Sandoval Lake Lodge. During these nights we were aided to sleep by the many fascinating and sometimes quite disturbing, noises of the rainforest. You would not believe what sounds can come out of such tiny insects, fragile looking birds and sweet looking monkeys. A racket that is what! A good kind of racket though, not like the disco on the other side of the wall we [View Full Entry]

Jessica lb - Jessica Baker | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 24th 2009 | 75 Views | [diary=447897]

Turtles chilling on a log
Lake Sandoval
The trees in the raindorest are enornous!

5 pm, the gold mining town and jungle port of Puerto Maldonado. Tucked inside the Amazon basin, the heat here is stifling. Sat on a bed, one eye on the TV watching Rocky V, one eye out of the window, taking in the mighty rio Madre de Dios. We’ve just spent 3 days and nights in the jungle, and reflecting upon it, I seem to have mixed feelings about this particular excursion. Entering the jungle is something I’ve been looking forward to for so long now. Of all the things we have planned on this trip, the jungle for me has [View Full Entry]

codemonkey - Robert Baker | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 23rd 2009 | 55 Views | [diary=447602]

Hoatzin
Sloth
Toucan

The Amazon Trip Tuesday 13th Left Cuzco at 6am to fly to Puerto Maldonaldo and then our group of 16 enjoyed a 3.5 hour motorised canoe trip up the Amazon to the Libertador Tambopata Eco Lodge. The scenery along the banks of the river was great with palm trees and banana trees plus lots of other tropical vegetation. We spotted caiman, heron, the largest rodents in the world (can’t remember its name), plus lots more. The Lodge was great. We all had our own rooms, 2 per bungalow, under a thatched vaulted roof with hot showers (heated by solar panels), and [View Full Entry]

Andy and Liz - Voyage to Oz | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 21st 2009 | 108 Views | [diary=446787]

Hard working Ants at the lodge
Wildlife enjoying Brazil nuts
Flowers at the lodge

Buenos Nochas Blog Readers! So this is our final blog of this incredible journey. We´ve found a really nice hostel in Lima (just down the road from the Stop and Drop Inn but a hundred times better!). We´ve just found out that the airport charges a 92 Soles tax on anybody going on international flights so to save us having to withdraw any money from an ATM (which costs about $5 a time) we´re saving our pennies big time! It should be possible to get through tomorrow on the money we have though! We landed in Puerto Maldonado airport on Monday [View Full Entry]

Tink And Laura - Tinker And Laura | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 26th 2009 | 49 Views | [diary=439776]


Greetings from Puerto Maldonado! We had a very brief stay in Lima. The hostel seemed very nice, though we didnt spend much time there.. arrived about 11pm and left at 8am to catch our flight to Puerto Maldonado. They served us breakfast, very good eggs! We met two other travelers from the US: two guys who work for Motorola in New York. Adi was originally from India, and Miroslav from Yugoslavia (I think). They were taking the same flight as we were (but getting off at the stopover in Cusco) so we took a taxi together from the hotel and talked [View Full Entry]

chodo721 - Carolyn Hodo | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 7th 2009 | 86 Views | [diary=406010]

Our room
The porch of the lodge
Pepe!

Hi all, Just to let you know that we are both still very well, on the day we published the last blog post on the jaguar, we returned to the lodge and saw him again on the way up! This time we got half decent photos, so here are some more as well as the most recent pick. Aside from that, yesterday we had a very exciting morning following a herd of white lipped peccaries (wild pig type things). We walked for about five hours and bumped into them three times. There were at least 50 of them and them make [View Full Entry]

YazandJack - Yasmin Lee & Jack Brodie | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 31st 2009 | 107 Views | [diary=403563]

Capirona beach
Big catterpillar
Snappy

It started raining as I sat on the sofa in the lodge waiting for my group to leave. It wasn’t just any rain either, it was a torrential downpour reminiscent of the rainy season and I wasn’t really all that happy to see it. As I sat and talked to the three tourists that would be making the journey up river with me, my mind wandered to my lonely backpack, the one that I had left leaning up against a tree near the river. I thought of all of my dry clothes and my electronics and my extra books and I [View Full Entry]

explorer_keith - Keith Martin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 7th 2009 | 393 Views | [diary=416182]

Heads in the Jar-O
A Creature From Your Nightmares
Looking Down River

By my fifth week living at Posada Amazonas I was ready for a break. The eight to ten hours I was spending on the trail every day, while immensely enjoyable, were taking their toll on my body. To make things worse, the lumpy, sagging mattress I had been sleeping on had resurrected an old pelvis injury, which I had earned in a fit of stupidity during a mountaineering trip in Yosemite many years before. I spent a few days resting in my bed, hoping to prevent a total flare up that would eventually spread to my lower back, rendering me useless [View Full Entry]

explorer_keith - Keith Martin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 23rd 2009 | 178 Views | [diary=411462]

Moon Over the Amazon
The Giant Mussurana
Sunrise Over the Amazon

Hi all, We have almost made 6 months in Peru, and so are down in town on the way to Brazil to get another passport stamp. We are making a bit of a holiday out of it and have 4 whole days off accompanied by books and newspapers sent by our parents. We are fully enjoying the onset of dry season, which has brought with it two new RNs, George and Shelley. This has greatly changed the dynamic of the place and we are getting a lot more things done with them and being very productive. We have been making a [View Full Entry]

YazandJack - Yasmin Lee & Jack Brodie | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 11th 2009 | 155 Views | [diary=397379]

Yaz feeding tamarins
Jaguar
Jaguar you?

For those of you who have been following my blog you will notice a large gap. I have decided to start writing about my current travels, but I will fill in the gaps as quickly as I can, so stay tuned and enjoy. A quick glance through the window revealed a seemingly endless blanket of green where, a few minutes before, there had been huge, snow-capped peaks. Just below us a wide ribbon of muddy orange water sliced through the green in a winding, haphazard manner. I knew the river well, though I had only seen it on maps - It [View Full Entry]

explorer_keith - Keith Martin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 15th 2009 | 535 Views | [diary=408782]

Piranha!!!
Rainbow Over the Canopy
The Giant Kapok Tree


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