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South America » Peru » Madre de Dios » Puerto Maldonado December 18th 2005

Day 35 and 36 Another early one and a flight later we were in Puerto Maldonado, the start of our jungle adventure. We were taken by (a rather rocky) motorised canoe deep into the Amazon Rainforest to a beautiful lodge. After lunch and a snooze in our own private hammocks, we crossed the river to Monkey Island. As its name suggests, it is an island where monkeys live!! We went for a hike through the jungle and were lucky enough to see several types of monkeys, including a cute mummy one with a baby on her back. Our guide had some bananas and called they came down from the trees so we got really close to them. The humidity in the jungle was pretty high so once we were back at the lodge we dived into ... read more

PERUVIAN AMAZON

South America » Peru » Madre de Dios » Puerto Maldonado » Amazon Rainforest December 3rd 2005

tarantula

teecee

by tim Hi everyone we hope you are still well even though those of you in the UK are probably cold, never mind suckers. In Cusco our group was joined by three more people Chris( london) his wife Gigi (italian) and Gigi´s friend Ciara (italian). We flew to Puerto Maldanado in the Peruvian Amazon. A really neat 2hr canoe trip down the Tambopata river delivered us to our lodge. This was the part of the trip I had been dreading the most. I hate spiders, snakes, bugs that fly and anything that bites. Come to think of it I don´t like anything that might hurt me. All in all its fair to say the Amazon was´nt going to be a highlight. The first night there the guide suggested we take a night hike into the jungle. ... read more

In the jungle

South America » Peru » Madre de Dios » Puerto Maldonado November 26th 2005

jungle 1

rak and jill

we had a 2 day excursion into the heart of the amazon jungle.... read more

It's a Jungle Sometimes

South America » Peru » Madre de Dios » Puerto Maldonado » Amazon Rainforest November 2nd 2005

Rio Tambopata

Gringo

I’ve had an urge to go to the Amazon Jungle over the past several years, and I finally got there. It was everything I had imagined: hot, wet, dense, and teeming with strange and dangerous wildlife. Our introduction was provided by a very capable team, Laurel and Pico at the Picaflor Research Centre. Picaflor recently became an official “Concecion Conservacion” - a plot of semi-park land. It is a project in sustainable forest management and a venue for academic projects. Laurel and Pico are an Anglo-Peruvian couple, and they have a small boy named Piquito. Laurel is a PhD biologist and Pico is a lifelong forest resident/brazil nut harvester. We recommend Picaflor highly. The food was great. Being a “volunteer” at Picaflor includes three hours of work daily (in return for the quite cheap lodging). They ... read more

Jungle Safari

South America » Peru » Madre de Dios » Puerto Maldonado October 24th 2005

Bus Breakdown!: Noooooooo

Gringo

Here we are in Puerto Maldonado, the Jungle, Peru. It took us 33 hours to get from Cuzco where the air is cold and thin, to this place where we’re 200m above sea level and the humidity is at least 100 percent. The bus from Cuzco left at 3pm on Saturday and was supposed to take 27 hours. Mike had a comical lack of leg room. The lady sitting behind me was extremely drunk and also very upset and got in a shouting match with some guy trying to sell motivational pamphlets. She proceeded to sing out loud and wave her arms out the window pretty much the whole way. She hit us on the head several times while she was flailing, and was kicked off briefly but returned much to our chagrin. Also along for ... read more

Puerto Maldonado, Peru

South America » Peru » Madre de Dios » Puerto Maldonado » Amazon Rainforest September 2nd 2005

DanLisa

September 2, 2005 We are picked up at the airport and shuttled to the lodge´s office. We are awaiting others for the 2 hour commute to the lodge so we head into town to buy some snacks at the market. I get separated from Dan and our guide while they buy flip flops. They are both amazed at how I can be the only white girl in all of Peru and still manage to disappear so well. We take a 45 minute bus ride then a 45 minute boat ride to our lodge in the middle of the rain forest. We see caiman (baby alligators) and toucans along the way. The water is infested with piranhas. Guess we won´t be doing alot of swimming here. We are served lunch on the boat which is more like ... read more

AMAZON FEVER

South America » Peru » Madre de Dios » Puerto Maldonado April 14th 2005

AMAZONA

juan franco

So, does this bus have air conditioning - asked the portly elderly woman, accompanied by three of her peers as they got on the bus at the airport in Puerto Maldonado... So started the venture for those suspecting the trip into the peruvian amazon would be a quaint get away - much like gilligan and crew - a three hour tour turned into a day from hell for the four ladies - after a two hour canoe ride downstream to the ecoamazonian lodge - the eight of us were taken to our huts, which much to the consternation and dismay of the travelling cuartet had neither electricity, nor phone, nor - well.... put it this way, it had a bed, mosquito netting and an inside WC with running cold water (no mam, no hot water). Needless ... read more

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