Blogs from Madre de Dios, Peru, South America - page 17

Je vais premièrement essayer de vous mettre dans le contexte. Vous pouvez vous aussi être un peu dans la jungle si vous faites ceci : 1- Enfermez-vous dans la salle de bain et faites couler la douche très chaude pendant euhhh 15 minutes pour être sure qu'il y ait assez d'humidité. 2- Allez chercher une couple de bambou chanceux qui trainent dans la cuisine et une couples de plantes de toutes sortes. 3- Mettez-vous de la crème solaire et de l'anti-bébitte pour sentir ce qu'on sent ici ! 4- Mettez le cd de relaxation d'oiseaux qui n'a jamais servi et le tour est joué ! hehe Bon, c'est surment quand même pas mal plus amusant dans la vraie jungle, mais je voulais vous donner un apperçu ! Nous sommes donc parti de Cusco vers Puerto Maldonado ... read more

Although Machu Picchu was definitely the reason why I chose to do this trip, the Amazon rain forest came in a close second. Its preliminary ranking was right on the mark. Although not as breathtaking as the lost city, the Amazon jungle was a once in a lifetime experience. Listening to our tour guide's warning that the jungle could have very unpredictable weather, all of us brought our rain coats and fleece jackets. Right...didn't quite need it in the 40 degree with 100% humidity weather we encountered while we were there. I felt like I was back in Doha. However, unlike Doha, there was no air conditioning. In fact, there was no electricity and no hot water (although the last thing you wanted was a hot shower after a day of trekking through the jungle!). The ... read more

We finally arrived in the quintessential South American country of Peru on 11 July 06, a day ahead of schedule. We had decided against traveling through Bolivia due to time constraints and the fact that we wanted to stay longer in Argentina. Peru is a country which once played host to the fabulous Inca empire, the last of the complex pre-Columbian civilizations. We arrived in its Capital Cuzco to begin the next leg of our adventure. The city, at 3325m, is nestled amongst the beautiful Andes and is surrounded by some of the continent's most stunning archeological sites. We will come back to Cuzco and the few days that we spent exploring the charming colonial back streets and plaza, and our Inca ruin crawl to Tambomachay and Sacsaywaman (sexy woman) in our next blog. Before we ... read more

June 30, 2006 Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios River, Amazon Basin The place we stayed in the Rainforest was freaking unbelievable. I know I know I keep using all these crazy descriptions but seriously. It was like being at Club med in the jungle or something. Check out www.inkaterra.com and go to reserve amazonica to see what I´m talking about. We went into the canopy and on a boat tour at night, we went to a lake and on a jungle walk at night. We saw a lot of caimans and spiders and giant rodents (I tried to get a photo for Justine to send to cuteoverload but alas I was not successful). I was sad to leave but only because it was the most relaxing thing we´ve done so far and involved a lot of ... read more

Hi everyone, We´ve just returned from 4 days, 3 nights in the Amazon rainforest! We had a great time and have a ton of pictures, but not our photo uploader! We´ll get them up ASAP though once we have it. We arrived in Puerto Maldonado on Saturday the 24th and were met at the airport by heat, humidity (which felt wonderful) and a friendly taxi driver named Juber. After finding a hotel for us, Huber set us up with a guide who would take us into the jungle. He did a good job of recommending us to Victor, who was actually recommended by the guidebook for Peru too. After hanging out with Juber and some of his friends and sampling plenty of the local beer, Cusqueña, we rested up one last night before heading out in ... read more