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- Lima
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- Nuevo Sol (PEN)
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- Population
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Puerto Maldonado Slideshow
Top Hotels in Puerto Maldonado
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Don Carlos Puerto Maldonado
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San Fernando Plaza Hotel Puerto Maldonado
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Hotel Cabana Quinta Puerto Maldonado
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Sandoval Lake Lodge Puerto Maldonado
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Puerto Maldonado
Travel Blogs from Puerto Maldonado, Peru
Last stop in Amazonia....
This is a top pick! We decide to stay an extra couple of days...it's too relaxing and beautiful...hammocks on the porch...quiet, isolated, all good except for the mosquitoes. Our friends David and Sandra, head out...we've got the place to ourselves...except for the ...
killer catfish....
This is a top pick! Let me tell you, I have a whole new respect for catfish. Frank and I head towards the smaller stream to do some fishing. I haven't done much fishing in my life and I can't see fishing just to impale the animal on a hook and then throw it ...
To Hell and Back
This is a top pick! ... us on the right plane from Cusco to Puerto Maldonado. The lady at the ticket counter certainly seemed unimpressed with his smell. Puerto Maldonado is a bit of a frontier town in the rainforest. With cars almost obselete here, most people choose to zip ...
The Amazon
This is a top pick! ... in Peru, with only 600,000 people living in its 80,000 kM2 of jungle area. Its capital Is a riverside city known as Puerto Maldonado with 25000 Inhabitants. Gold panning on the Tampobamba and Madre de Dios rivers, and the latex boom at the end of the ...
feeding the mosquitos...
This is a top pick! 5:30 AM in the boats to look for parrots on the colpa...that's a vertical river bank comprised of clay that the parrots gather on...they ingest the clay and minerals and it protects them from some of the tree toxins they will later ingest. I guess ...
The Tourist Chronicles Volume 2. "My Hair" !!!
This is a top pick! ... you could muster up the courage to jump in. I expected our trip to the jungle to be educational and Puerto Maldonado did not disappoint! Howler Monkeys, parrots, caymans, falcons, piranhas, lots of strange birds, medicinal trees and ...
off to the jungle....
This is a top pick! ... broadly winding flow of the Madre de Dios and, where it merges with the Tambopata, someone decided to build the town of Puerto Maldonado. The plane lands...we walk into the airport and it downpours!! Hard, driving rain proving once again that it is ...
Pisaq and Uros Islands
This is a top pick! ... visit one of the highest countries in the world and also one of the poorest in South America, Bolivia. Our Highlights of Peru People. Empire. Rambling. Uros. The people of Peru have been great. In a country with so many tourists, you'd ...
Here we go for the Inca Trail
This is a top pick! Tomorrow it is off to do the Inca Trail - excited!!! Dashed through Puno yesterday and jumped across to some of the impressive, but over comercialized floating islands on Lake Titicaca. Nice to meet Lotte and Lene, some friendly Danes, maybe even ...
Midphase break
This is a top pick! Okay, some more bits and pieces. We´ve come back into town for the mid phase break and that has become a bit of a time for letting our hair down and having fun. Yesterday we arrived into town in the morning and one of the first stops was the laundry - ...
Amazon is full of creepy crawly tings!
This is a top pick! ... crowd as we had had people from Argentina, Spain, France and Sweden! There is definitely a difference in the people in Puerto Maldonado than from Cusco. They don't dress in traditional clothing here and most of them are dressed in skimpy ...
In the Jungle
This is a top pick! After a day recovering from the Inca trail and celebrating in Cusco, we jumped on a flight to the final destination of the packaged tour - The Amazon basin. I managed to scrounge a window seat and watched as the arid mountains around Cusco gave way to ...
One last update before disappearing into ...
This is a top pick! ... place, all at one time (and all be awake!) After late night arrivals, and early morning departures from Lima, we've ended up in Puerto Maldonado (PM) which is the main town near to where we'll be spending the next 10 weeks. From here it's about 8 hours ...
Crazy Nights in Cuzco - Survivng the Inca Trail
This is a top pick! Nearly four years ago to the day i did the Inca trail in Peru, I just got back from doing it again today, it was brilliant. The tour group, the trecking and in direct contrast to last time even the food was fantastic. Day two turned out ...
Tarzan and Jane in the Jungle
This is a top pick! Today we are in the Peruvian Jungle for 4 days. We arrive by plane from Cusco in Puerto Maldonado and the first impression as we step off the aircraft is that we are on holiday. The air temperature is 30c+ and the humidity is very high – just like ...
The Amazon basin
This is a top pick! After chilling for a day in Cusco after the Inca trail we got on a 25 minute plane journey to Puerto Maldonado to see the jungle. The other option would have been to go by road via a lorry carrying diesel and would take between 5 days and a week to get ...
Surrounded by mountains in Sorata
This is a top pick! Don´t have time now to write a long report about Sorata, but it is a very nice town in a valley in between snow capped mountains. I did a two day trek here towards Laguna glaciar at 5100m. A very nice walk, with fantastic views. See the pictures! ...
Manu National Park
This is a top pick! 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 ...
In the jungle
Our trip to the Amazon started with a very quick 30min flight descending from 3700m to just 300m. It was so much more comfortable being at a lower altitude and really good to be able to walk up a flight of stairs without getting out of breath. We had a ...
Wild Turkeys
Mountain peaks to Jungle in one day (on a bike)
Sorata, the walking capital of Bolivia is lovely, just what we have been looking for quiet and chilled out. We stayed in a nice hostel and found a lovely cafe with hammocks to read in, which we did for most of our first day. On the second day we did a ...
Into the Wild
Rurrenabaque i Amazonas 28.7. – 1. 8. Ajme, ljuta sam za poludit! Zadnjih tjedan dana putovala sam s jednim Englezom, Leonom, koji mi je na pocetku bio skroz super, ali je na kraju ispao totalni manijak! Rekao mi je kako sam sebicna i kako sam ...
At home in the jungle
It is a 45 minute flight into the jungle to Puerto Maldonado, sure beats an 18 hour bus ride. Puerto Maldonado has two industries - 1) logging with profits going to big companies, often foreign owned and 2) tourism of the sort where you are whisked ...
AMAZON
... felt like we entered a new country... the architecture was completely different and even the people looked slightly different... also in Puerto Maldonado about 90% (or seems like) of its residents drive motorcycles. We then took a 45 minute boat ride ...
en la mañana
Al despertarnos el abuelo de la familia indígena nos explico sus costumbres, incluso prendió fuego frente a nosotros, nos enseño palabras, nos canto, etc.. lejos una de las cosas mas entretenidas del viaje. ...
Back to the Amazon
I had been a little disappointed by the Bolivian Amazon, but I wasn't prepared to write the Amazon off. So we took a deep breath and signed up for two weeks at Tambopata Expedition's lodge, Piedra Negra Research Station. This trip is a bargain - ...
en la tarde
Luego pasamos todo el día camino al Lago, donde nos quedaríamos a dormir, en el lago cocinamos, nos bañamos, aunque habían pirañas y caimanes, y aprendimos mucho mucho de Saturnino. Al final del dia nos quedamos en la casa de un sr ...
Sailing to Isla del Sol...Lake Titicaca
... before catching the ferry back to the mainland. So a short but very relaxing stay here and tomorrow we cross the border into Peru and catch a bus onto the Inca capital of Cusco. Bolivia has definitely been my favourite country so far on this trip, unique ...
On the prowl around town.
Some pictures from around town. All the people that I met are very friendly and want to know about America. Unfortunately this was my first attempt at speaking Spanish and no one there spoke English. Most tourists arive in town and ...