Puerto Maldonado, Peru Travel Blogs

The Amazon
Sep 1, 2008 (25 photos)

... 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 ...

To Hell and Back
Aug 23, 2006

... 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 around ...

The Tourist Chronicles Volume 2. "My Hair" !!!
May 5, 2009 (75 photos)

... 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....
Jan 22, 2008 (46 photos)

... 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 ...

Midphase break
Feb 15, 2003 (8 photos)

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 - ...

One last update before disappearing into ...
Jan 17, 2003 (7 photos)

... , 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 down ...

The Amazon basin
May 16, 2005 (20 photos)

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 ...

Rainforest
Aug 6, 2008

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Wild Turkeys
Apr 23, 2009 (10 photos)

AMAZON
Jul 17, 2006 (3 photos)

... 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 down ...

Back to the Amazon
May 31, 2008 (14 photos)

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  - two ...

Caiman in the Rain - Eco Amazonia Lodge
Apr 27, 2007 (66 photos)

... 37 degrees, over 90% humidiity, and we are at 200 metres above sea level, a drop of 3,200 metres from Cusco. Puerto Maldonaldo is a typical tropical town - hot and dusty (except when it rains and it becomes a quagmire), millions of motorcycles whizzing ...

On the prowl around town.
Nov 17, 2006 (36 photos)

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 ...

Day 3 & 4
Apr 18, 2008 (5 photos)

Ola Amigos, We survived the jungle (located in the Amazon Basin)!   We took a 45 minute boat ride down a river (Madre de Dios) that feeds into the Amazon.  Then hiked into the jungle for another hour.  Then canoed to our lodge ...

Hot and Humid
Oct 6, 2005 (7 photos)

... toilet! Fortunately her lapse of concentration was short lived this time and a mini disaster was averted. As we landed in Puerto Maldonado (PM), after our shortest flight ever (25mins), the pilot informed us that the local temperature was 93 degrees F ...

Jungle madness
Jul 15, 2007 (5 photos)

... ; We got to the airport early because of all the strikes going on so we were all still half asleep when we arrived at Puerto Maldonado.   Its usually pretty good weather in this region (30C) at this time of year and its the dry season.  ...

In the Jungle
Jul 19, 2009 (5 photos)

Two worth-it weeks as Amazon jungle fodder
May 30, 2008 (13 photos)

From Cusco we flew to Puerto Maldonado to spend two weeks volunteering at a research station in the Peruvian Amazon near the Tambopata reserve. We were nervous about giving up two weeks when we were running out of time in South America, and given that our ...

Picaflor
Feb 3, 2007 (7 photos)

... vast canopy of trees but an occasional brown river snaking it´s way through the forest.  We landed in Puerto Maldonado, a frontier town dotted with palm trees, and crossed by dirt roads full of motor bikes and noisy rickshaws.  Families ...

Phoar...how hot can it get??
Nov 5, 2005 (10 photos)

Well how lucky are you - 2 entries in one day! We landed in Puerto Maldonado today, which is situated in the jungle in south eastern Peru fairly close to the Brazilian and Bolivian border. EEEEEKKS...it's so exciting! We are on our way the Picaflor ...

Why do monkeys sit on my head?
Jul 19, 2006 (13 photos)

... jungle was meant to be our relaxing reward after so much travel, but it took us a few days to wind down! We arrived in Puerto Maldonado from Cusco in the morning, and after a short tour of some local markets, we hopped on a boat for a couple of hours ...

a la selva
Feb 16, 2007 (1 photos)

A puerto Maldonado llegamos en avión ... que alivio ... fue un segundo nada mas y nos transportamos a un Perú completamente distinto, mas seguro, ambiente tropical... llegamos a la plaza y nos encontramos a Don Saturnino quien nos daría un tour en su bote por ...

Jungle fever!
Jul 30, 2007 (27 photos)

... . The morning was a lot of fun. After our time at the macaw lick we had to spend the rest of the day travelling to Puerto Maldonado. This was quite the journey. We travelled by boat from the lick for 2 hours until we reach the town of Colorado. Our ...

Off to the Amazon - Puerto Maldonado
Mar 25, 2006 (31 photos)

... --can you say humid? We got off the plane (our little group of seven) and all commenced sweating--lovely. We then drove through Puerto Maldonado to the headquarters for the eco-lodge that we were going to boat up to. They gave us five minutes to unpack ...

The Graveyard
Nov 20, 2006 (16 photos)

There didn´t seem to be any organization as to where people are buried. I guess you just find an empty spot and go for it. There is another larger graveyard that I haven´t visited yet.

Manu Bioreserve
Oct 21, 2007

Later

Puerto Maldonado...the jungle
Aug 28, 2006 (15 photos)

... to be invited to join a short trip to the jungle with a group of friends and older children from the orphanage Amantani. Puerto Maldonado is located in the Amazon Basin and is only a short 30 minute flight from Cusco. We visited an animal refuge, ...

Amazon is full of creepy crawly tings!
Aug 31, 2009 (70 photos)

... 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 clothing.& ...

In the jungle the mighty jungle!
Sep 4, 2007

... was required since Ive always always wanted to go to the Amazon rainforest, so last saturday me and Rich flew to Puerto Maldonado (apparently its a city, and the airport is international but it looks rather like a little shack in someones back garden and ...

In the Jungle the Mighty Jungle
Jul 30, 2008 (18 photos)

From our comfy hotel surroundings in Lima we took a short hop on a flight to Puerto Maldonado. At the airport we met the other 18 people on our tour, all are lovely most are from New Zealand but there´s Brits, Ozzies and a fair few Irish for good measure. ...