We headed out early by flight to Puerto Maldonado, a frontier town in the southern Peruvian Amazon, via Cusco. The journey continued with a one-hour bus ride and a two-hour motorized canoe ride to our jungle lodge, Posadas Amazonas. As we are still in the tail ends of the rainy season, the muddy dirt road has many potholes, some of which made for very bumpy rides, to put it mildly. We had to help pull out a 4WD car stuck on the side of the road. We met our guides for the jungle excursion, Sally and Geraldine, and they offered us many locally produced treats - baby bananas, brazil nuts, banana chips and a fruit punch, all very tasty. Lunch was on the motorized canoe. It was fried rice wrapped in some kind of leaf.
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