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By limelorna
October 26th 2008

A belated update!

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Lake Titicaca

Hello everyone, Apologies for the delay, its been a very busy couple of weeks on the tour and so its been difficult to get anywhere near a computer for more than 1/2 hour at a time and then impossible to find one thats capable of downloading photos! So this message is an amalgamation of the Peru trip... I hope I explain it all OK! So, its been a busy couple of weeks! So from Nazca we continued South to Puno and Lake Titicaca, we spent the day hiking around a smaller island on the lake and being shown the local traditions, [View Full Entry]

By Rubaggio
October 20th 2008

Amazon Rainforest and Explorer's Inn Jungle Lodge and Research Center

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The Tambopata River
The Explorers Inn is in the Tambopata Rainforest Reserve. Puerto Maldonado is where the Tambopata and Madre de Dios rivers converge.

We spent 4 days and nights at a jungle lodge 2 hours up the Madre De Dios River from Puerto Maldonado. We spent 3 nights at the lodge and 1 night 3 hours further up river at a camp site. [View Full Entry]

By Jen C
October 11th 2008

3 Days in the Amazon Rainforest

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Owl Butterly
Seen on our evening insect walk...isn't he fascinating looking?

Thursday we flew from Cusco airport to Puerto Maldonado for our three-day trip to the Amazon rainforest. The first thing that hit me when we got off the plane was the HEAT!!! Wow, what a change from the rain in Machu Picchu! A bus was waiting for us and took us to the Sandoval Lake Lodge office so we could drop off our big luggage and pack a smaller bag for the boat/hike/boat trip to the lodge. The bus then dropped us off for a 25-minute boat ride along the Madre de Dios River where we were served lunch along the [View Full Entry]

By HelenK
July 18th 2008

The Amazon Jungle

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I woke up pleasantly surprised to find I had been able to sleep through all the crazy bird, monkey and whatever else noises in the night! I think everyone in our group was excited about seeing monkeys and luckily during breakfast, one of the guides came in and said there were monkeys right out side. We rushed out and spotted them climbing up the trees, they were really tiny and cute! After breakfast we took another walk through the jungle to an ox-bow lake. On the way there we stopped at a tree with a huge hole in the bottom. The [View Full Entry]

By HelenK
July 17th 2008

The Amazon Jungle

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Puerta Maldonado

We flew from Cusco to Puerto Maldonado in the Amazonnjungle this morning. It was the shortest flight ive been on, litterally as soon as we were in the air we began ourt decent! The temperature was so different, its been really nice weather the whole time in Peru so far but this was the hottest. It was really humid too which made it worse. We were given another duffle bag each wich I crammed full of stuff (we had no weight limit this time unlike on the inca trail!) including loads of insect repellent and sun cream! After that we got [View Full Entry]

By Premi and Preetham
July 16th 2008

Our trip to the Amazon

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Manu

A group of us from the spanish school decided to forgo two days of class to take a trip to the Peruvian Amazon. Reputed to be one of the best places in the world to see wildlife we decided the tradeoff would be worth it. It is reported to be the home to 20,000 species of flora and over 1300 species of butterflies and hundreds of other insects. We went with an organized tour through a company called Manu Ecological Adventures (http://www.manuadventures.com/) which turned out to be a very fun way to see the Amazon because it included a white water [View Full Entry]

By MsD
June 22nd 2008

The Amazon is Not QUIET

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Corto Maltes Bungalo
A pic of the outside of my bungalo. Nice, huh!

My first night in the Amazon was on June 20th and the sounds of things splashing in the river woke me oh, so many times. Where they sounds of things coming out of the water or going in? I had images of navy seals coming out of the water and bombarding my bungalo...or kapibari, which are HUGE, crazy looking rats! Yes, they are the largest member of the rodent family in the world & a big ol family of them lived on the river right in front of my bungalo. I arrived in Puerto Maldonado at noonish on the 20th and [View Full Entry]

By MsD
June 20th 2008

La Amazonia

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Cappuchin Monkey
We came across a family of monkies while trekking some trails in the Tambopata Reserve of the Amazon Rainforest. We had some bananas & they at them right up. Glad I got this camera with the good zoo... [more]

Well, I am out of the rainforest...BEAUTIFUL. I have some great pics but they will have to wait until I get to a computer I can use for more than a couple minutes. I must get truckin to the airport to fly back to Lima and then head down to see the Nasca Lines. Hopefully I will have some time in Lima to properly post photos. Until then, here is one to get started... [View Full Entry]

By GemmaandJohn
May 24th 2008

Last Days in Peru

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Ballestas Peru

After our trip to the Incas we decided to take it easy for a few days before beginning our trek across the Peruvian border to Brasil. So we headed down the coast to the Ballestas Islands to check out the wildlife. We stayed in Ica for a couple of nights and took a boat trip out to see what turned out to be a very interesting mix of Sea Lions, Penguins (sometimes sitting on the same rocks!) Cormorants, and many other birds that sadly the guide in the boat couldn´t help us out with. The sealions were making the most amazing [View Full Entry]

By Mikey M
April 28th 2008

Amazonas Bad Start, Good Finish

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Amazon

So again when leaving Cusco i had to pay a departure tax and to be honest im getting pissed off that im paying so much for flights and its not included and also having to pay to use bathrooms that worse than some found in Asia?, well rant over i landed at Puerto Maldonao and no gap representative and then i was met by Fernando a guide for Amazona Rainforrest and apprently they do the trip i had booked and then i saw a flash bus and i was directed to a naff one and i was thinking hey between flights [View Full Entry]

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