After picking up all the people from their hotels, we drove off stopping in a small village, some pre-Inca ruins and did walks in the cloudforest. Cloudforest is the cloudy, still a bit chilly, high-altitude part of the jungle, which has different flora and fauna than the rainforest below it. The first day we saw the national bird of Peru, the Peruvian cock of the rock. It's not only the name that is funny, the poor creature looks quite silly, too. We arrived at the lodge just after the sunset and were happy to relax after most of the day spent in the car on the bumpy road and with the amazing 80's & 90's music they seem to love in this part of the world. So after dinner we planned the tour with the
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