Jungle adventure

South America » Peru » Cusco » Manu National Park
October 22nd 2006

Published: October 29th 2006

Had a brilliant 7 days in the jungle - far too much to write about now. Highlights: white water rafting, mountain biking in the cloud forest, swimming in the river at sunset, zipping across the canopy from platform to platform high above the forest floor, abseiling, seeing a sloth, 7 giant otters, caimans, 5 species of monkeys, turtles, capybara, possum, macaws, herons, kingfisher, a fresh puma f... Read Full Entry

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How to rescue a red howler monkey, part 3

lunchtime on the river Manu

Erika Lodge

my room in the jungle

This is were Lex and I slept for two nights in the Manu Reserve

on the catamaran

Our guide Alvaro and Parisian Thomas brought us to see the giant otters, kingfisher, lots of cormorants and other beautiful birds whose names i really should have written down

Spot the caiman

Count the Giant Otters

answers on a postcard

after sunset on Manu River

mud?

Yes well, that´s what it may look like to the uninitiated, but to jungle experts like myself, this signifies the presence of a puma along our path within the previous hour

where the jungle meets the beach

music

a native of the Amazonian jungle showed us how to play a local instrument and also how to make fire!

boys will be boys

Couldn´t believe it - even in blistering midday heat, the French boys couldn´t pass up the chance to have an international friendly with some of the locals