Manu National Park, Peru Travel Blogs

Jinxed by a floating tortoise.
Sep 4, 2005 (32 photos)

... I doubt the jungle gods or David Attenborough would pay much attention. It's day six of my eight days adventure in Manu National Park (about the size of Wales), one of the best places in the Amazon to spot tropical wildlife (including the elusive jaguar). ...

Manu National Park
Oct 27, 2004 (11 photos)

Manu National Park Manu National Park was established in 1977 and in recognition of its uniqueness was designated a world heritage site ten years later. Manu is internationally acclaimed as one of the most biodiverse areas on earth. Wake up call at ...

Welcome to the jungle!
Nov 9, 2008 (53 photos)

... before Manuīs reserved zone, where we were greeted by the "hola!" of a friendly parrot. The reserved zone of the Manu National Park is a protected area of the Amazon jungle where it is forbifdden to cut trees, fish or even talk loudly, in ...

Jungle Bunnies Go Bush
Mar 25, 2007 (42 photos)

... you happiness, animal sightings, good weather or no insect bites huh?! SO thatīs our story, itīs a good one :) Manu Ecological Tours (jungle Specialists), I recommend them for the 8 day jungle tour to Manu, and they are really reasonably priced too ...

Manu National Park - Traumwoche im Regenwald
Oct 17, 2008 (63 photos)

... . Am naechsten Morgen besteigen wir alle wieder das Boot und weiter geht es in die sogenannte reservierte Zone von Manu, wo nur bestimmte Veranstalter mit einer beschraenkten Anzahl an Touristen hinein duerfen. Dort wohnen keine Leute, Jagd und ...

Jungle Jarvs proves she's no 'Woman's Woman'
Jun 25, 2007 (19 photos)

... be wined and dined? No wonder he had to keep a weapon to my throat at all times!! The location was Manu National Park, the worlds largest area of protected rainforest and utterly stunning. Diverse and beautiful cloud forest tunbles down the Andes into ...

Not Quite The Amazon With A Paddle
Jun 17, 2008

 Another 5am morning this time to go and catch the 'Cock of the Rock' - the Peruvian national bird. This red and black crested spectacle is renowned for its flamboyant courting dance. Unfortunately at this stage in the morning no one was doing any ...

Raindrops on boat roofs and whiskers on jaguars
Nov 25, 2007 (46 photos)

... jungle was more than enough for me.  We went from the cool comfortable climes of Cusco to the hot, humid jungle in the Manu Biosphere Reserve.  I now remember whatīs meant when they say "but itīs a dry heat".  The jungle held it's own but ...

Up in the tree tops
Jun 19, 2008

Another pre dawn morning - were getting used to these, this time our 5am start was to go and visit the macaw clay lick. We chugged gently down river, along with the current, pulled over to a pebbled beach, where a bird watching hide was positioned, facing ...

Life in the Madre De Dios Jungle - Manu Reserve
Aug 25, 2006

... Cusco was the day I realised that I wanted to go to the jungle - within two hours, I had booked a tour to Manu National Reserve Park for three days, two nights, leaving the following morning at 5am. Booking a tour in Cusco is not as straightforward an ...

Spectacular But Scary
Jun 15, 2008

Manu national park is a 9 hour drive from Cusco, by the end of the day - we certainly knew it. We were going to call this blog - Puppies, Pigs and Passing Places after the things we saw on the journey - but on second thoughts a more apt description would ...

We're going on a Tarantual hunt
Jun 21, 2008

... went. By now nothing fazed us or our driver and guide and skillfully changing the tyre we arrived back home safe and sound. Manu national park might not have given us the sights of animals that we so wished to see, but wildlife cannot be commanded at will ...

Into the Amazon
May 9, 2008 (64 photos)

... bundled onto another bus with 13 other intrepid jungle tourists for a 11 hour journey to the cloud forest at the start of the Manu National Park.  On the way we had a couple stops to look at the funery towers of a pre-Incan civilization, to see a ...

The mighty jungle
Jul 30, 2009 (14 photos)

Once we'd recovered from the Inca Trail and had a few drinks with the rest of our lovely group in Cusco it was back on the bumpy bus and into the jungle on dusty roads. Whilst the rest of us slept John enjoyed some wonderful Peruvian driving at its best ...

8 day jungle trip
Oct 19, 2008

... perspective from above.Later we took to the boats to another lodge for the night then another start to enter Manu National Park. From now on everything was strictly controlled and only a few native people are allowed to live here. Apparently ...

Journal 6
Aug 18, 2009

Aug 17 -      Today may have been the hottest day yet down here. It was scorching hot. This afternoon I got out of the shower, dried off and was still sopping wet.  Jeff even went swimming in the river with some of the people from ...

Venturing into the Amazon - Monday 17th March
Mar 21, 2008

... were any creepy crawlies! We relaxed in the dining room, with a beer, had dinner and then went to bed. If it wasn't raining in the morning, the guide would wake us up at 05:00 to observe the cock of the rock (Rupicola Peruviana) - Peru's national bird.

Journal 21
Oct 22, 2009

Oct 18 -      Today was a day of rain and relaxation; and of course a little drinking. Mainly we were in Claudia's office hanging out using the Internet. I read for a while but mainly it was just a day of pure relaxation, which was ...

Journal 11
Sep 2, 2009

Sept 1 · Today was a big day since it was the day that Oscar wass coming with a photographer. The photographer was not what was important to Jeff and I since he has nothing to do with out job, but having Oscar here to ask about and observe the work that ...

Journal 12
Sep 5, 2009 (2 photos)

Sept 3 -      Well, Daniel did not come today but is supposed to be coming sometime later in the week. Today was an exciting day for seeing animals. At the artificial clay-lick we got to see Dusky Titi Monkeys in the morning. There ...

Journal 23
Oct 25, 2009

Oct 22 -      Today was the last day that I will work at the clay lick and with the Macaws. It is sad but I am really looking forward to our upcoming travels. Today was also the last time I will be doing laundry in the stream. Well ...

Journal
Aug 4, 2009

... and saw some really pretty birds including a tucanette and some macaws · Then before dinner we were all given a Pisco Sour, the national drink of Peru, it tastes a lot like a whiskey sour its very good · I don't remember what we had for dinner (I'm writing ...

Journal 4
Aug 13, 2009 (5 photos)

... nbsp;     This morning we had to move out of our room for a night because to groups could not fly out of Manu to Cusco because of the rain. Guides and Oscar have also been forced to find other lodging. Oscar, Jeff, and I are taking over ...

Jungle Fever
Feb 14, 2009 (12 photos)

... that on Friday we'd be off to Manu for another wild adventure... We stayed/volunteered/ate at Reserva Atalaya, not very deep into Manu, about an 8-hour ride from Cusco across the beautiful, rugged Andes in a private car.  It was in the car where we ...

Journal 8
Aug 24, 2009

Aug 22 -      Today in the afternoon Santos and I were walking ahead of Jeff on a bath on the Island when Santos suddenly took a step back in shock.  Four feet in front of us on the path was a 1.5 or 2 meter long green snake that ...

Journal 17
Sep 29, 2009

Sept 25 -      Today we tried to feed the Macaws on a table on a boat by carrying them down to the shore. Many bites later (mainly for Jeff and Daniel), we realized that this was not going to work because they could not see the table ...

Journal 18
Oct 5, 2009

Sept 30 -      Today we started the filming of the Macaws with Jim. However, when we first got to the island it was decided that we would need a special boat without a roof so that Jim would be able to film without restrictions. There ...

Journal 10
Aug 31, 2009

Aug 29 -      The macaws today followed the horn without problem during the first and last feedings of the day, but they just didn't want to follow in the middle of the day. We are now thinking that it is because it has been very hot ...

Further and further in
Aug 9, 2007

    Well, another bladder-busting day has come and gone. Now I'm writing by flashlight again, so I hope my batteries hold out.     Since writing earlier... we saw several more caiman. We got so close to a big black caiman ...

The lowland rainforest
Aug 10, 2007

    The lodge is very nice. It's actually a series of thatched-roof huts on stilts much like our blind at the tapir lick. However, this place has beds (with mosquito nets), flushing toilets and showers. There's even a generator that keeps ...