Blogs from Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru, South America - page 5

Day 17: After the highs of Machu Picchu, the transfer back to Cusco didnt get us back into town until almost dusk.... by the time we went to bed, we'd already been up a whole 24 hours. So it was rather lucky that we had a free day in Cuzco the following day, a bit of a lay in, a lazy breakfast, laundry as i'd almost totally ran out of clean clothes. And just wandering around Cuzco city which in the midst of everything is actually a beautiful, vibrant town. Suvenior shopping for the girls and lazy lunches. We had our final night in Cuzco by going out for dinner at "Fallen Angels" which is a beautiful restaurant. I had steak cooked in its own juices yum, and after hardly any sleep the past week, what ... read more

Puerto Maldonado 28.11.09 - 08.12.09 Wir verbrachten 10 Tage in Puerto Maldonado und davon eine ganze Woche in der Selva. Wir flogen von Cusco nach Puerto Maldonado und wurden am Flughafen von Sue abgeholt Sie und ihr Mann Jim arbeiten fuer eine kirchliche Gemeinde. Dorothe hat ihre Adresse von “ihrem” Pastor in Arequipa erhalten (welcher mit dem Paar befreundet ist) und so sind wir an unserer Unterkunft gelangt. Am Flughafen haben wir auch noch Bernhard und Hanni aus der Schweiz kennengelernt, die vor 16 Jahren in Puerto Maldonado eine Gemeinde aufgebaut haben und vor 18 Monaten wieder dahin zurückgekehrt sind. Dieses Pastorenehepaar hat fuer eine Jungle tour die Anakonda Lodge empfohlen, welche von einem Scheizer namens Donald und seiner thailaendischen Frau Wadee geführt wird. Also wurden wir dorthin gefahren und sind dort neben einem feinen thai-lunch ... read more

Hola amigos, It’s been a while, and I have been many places. I’ve written this entry on a bus, in Cusco airport, under my mosquito net at Lagunas Surf Camp in Mancora, which is just south of the Ecuadorian border, during my cruise cabin in the Galapagos Islands, and now back in Quito. My days have been full enough that on numerous occasions I have found myself lying in a bed thinking, “Have I slept here before? Was I here last night?” My Bolivian experience was like that, which was unfortunate, because I liked it there. I live without schedules as much as possible, but other people’s schedules can sometimes drive my decisions. My first morning in Copacabana, Bolivia, I began researching tours of the Peruvian jungle and saw that they all departed on Sundays. I ... read more

Due to messing up the dates of our flight from Puerto Maldanado to Cusco, we ended up staying in this extremely humid rainforest town for two painful yet comical nights. Luckily, or so we thought, we ended up in a pretty nice lodge set on the river called Wasaii lodge. We were promised great views and best of all.... air conditioning! Air conditioning was one of the first disasters we had. Our room we were steeply paying $60 per night for had air con, but it managed to conk out on our first night so we were literally sweltering in the morning as the heat quickly rose. Due to Puerto Maldanado having nothing to offer outside except aimlessly wandering the streets in unbearable heat, we knew we had to do something about this as we were ... read more

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 and picked up by the owners of the Anaconda Jungle Lodge - Donald and Waddi. The lodge was absolutely amazing. It was honestly paradise and we´re so jealous of the owners lives! They have about ... read more