Amazon Jungle: Puerto Maldonado

After arriving in Lima at 1:30 am, we took a 45 minute drive to the hotel only to find out we had to get up in 3 hours to take our flight to Puerto Maldonado..sigh.

So 3 hours of sleep later, we got back on bus to take a 45 minute drive back to the airport to take our plane to our destination.

At Puerto Maldonado, we boarded a motorized canoe that took us to our 45 minute walk to a paddle canoe that would take us across Lake Sandoval to our jungle resort for the next 2 days..whew!


We saw brown capuchin monkeys on our paddle canoe..how adorable..and cayman alligators..not so adorable but still a sight to see. We saw McCaw parrots and herons and more.....pictures to come later...


Our lodge was not at all what we thought it would be. It was nice with generators for eletricity and hot water..boy were we spoiled! Although I didn´t actually take a hot hot shower but anyway...they shut the power off at certain times to conserve electricity so my showers not so hot..but didn´t bother me.

A night walk enabled us to see spiders, ants, secadas and more..very nice..very warm weather. And our dinner was delicious!!! chicken with rice and spinach..wow..we were spoiled! OF course that came with the bad news we would be up at 5:00am the next day!...but no worries...it was a good first day!