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Puerto Maldonado Slideshow
Puerto Maldonado
Travel Blogs from Puerto Maldonado, Peru
La Jungle Amazonienne
... et c´'est vraiment un choc au system a la sortie de l'avion.. il fait chaud et tres tres tres humide a Puerto Maldonado et nous sommes presque au niveau de la mer... nous prenons le bus, puis apres 1.5h en pirrogue motorisee sur la ...
Puerto Maldonado - Final Impressions
So this afternoon we left Puerto Maldonado for Cusco (hmm... River Basin to high in the Andes all in one day--woohoo!). Posada Amazonas was an amazing eco-lodge and I'd definitely recommend it to anyone that was looking for a tucked away, private place ...
Adventures in the Amazon Rain Forest
Took a plane down to the edge of the jungle then got into a very dusty bus for our journey to the river then into a boat for the final 3 hours of our journey to the lodge where they had really cute pets; 2 macaws, a dozen howler monkeys, a few thousand ...
Amazonas
noch dem inka trail bin i in da amazonas kfloga rund 4 stunda bus und bootfahrt vu puerto maldonado entfernt imana jungel lodge hännt verschiedenens kmacht isch wieder ganz was anderes xsi und natürlich extrem beidruckend :-))) han a hufa tiara xse und ...
Amazon Basin
... Peruvian adventures weren't over yet. From 3300m high Cusco, a small 11-hour bus journey took us down into the Amazon Basin: Puerto Maldonado. The Tambopata river and the Madre de Dios river converge here. The surrounding area is known to be some of the ...
Welcome to the jungle
... fresh waffle cones...so I had to go there three times that day for some ice cream! It was interesting seeing a city like Puerto Maldonado, which hasn't really been hit with the tourism wave yet. It was a nice conclusion to our Amazon basin ...
Amazon Adventures
With no time to recover from the Inca Trail we took a short flight to the jungle. (Having notched up 11 flights I´m coping pretty well!) It was incredibly hot and humid.... but luckily the showers were cold! Jon has become a huge fan of hammocks as we ...
Jungle
Friday 17th March Woke up with a hangover and had to get a flight at 12 to the jungle. We got a boat from the port town which was reallly run down and not nice. The boat was really rickety ,a motorised canoe. It took about an hour and half to gett o ...
Catwalk Canopy
... area that there are good opportunities for jobs such as tour guides rather than as present, most of them moving away to Puerto M thinking there are better prospects there. It was good to know that our fees were contributing to this positive project. ...
Amazon Jungle
... anyone taken malaria tablets before? .... certainly contributed to some pretty surreal dreams...). We saw quite a variety of birds and monkeys as well as some spiders and a couple of lizards. All in all good fun and a great way to end our time in ...
Fishing for Pirhanas
When we exited the tiny airport at Puerto Moldonado, there were only 5 vehicles in the entire parking lot, one of them belonging to our jungle lodge. My group was now reduced to three - Yvette from the Machu Picchu group and Judith, another Brit who ...
At the market
The market absolutely surprised me. I expected to see some half empty shelves and what I found was just the opposite. Everything was packed to the max with just enough room for you to walk by. It was amazing. I wish that I had access to a stove so ...
In the jungle the mighty jungle...
Fiona It was with a little trepidation that we boarded our flight to Puerto Maldonado, from where we would be taken by boat down the Tambopata River to our jungle lodge. Most of you will know that I am not exactly the outdoorsy, at-one-with-nature ...
Sitting at the dock of the bay
Here is a few pics overlooking the port on the Madre de Dios river. The river is flowing very swiftly especially for such a large river. There are logs and wood pieces floating down it all day and there is smoke blowing down it nonstop. I am going to ...
The Jungle
Hhmmm…..I really wasn’t convinced about the Amazon experience, I guess like most arachnophobes this a bit like throwing yourself to the lions but Sam was keen so I grit my teeth and went along. Our plane was delayed so by the time we had ...
Puerto Maldonado
PM was the gateway and exit for the project, a fairly haphazard and frenetic frontier town. Most people only go to jump on a boat to get into the jungle. So we weren{'t any ...
Amazon jungle, Peru
... be more excited about it all. Anyway, back to today and there's no time to rest as we head off on a flight to Puerto Maldonado and a tour into the Amazon forest! We honestly couldn't hope for too amazing an experience in the Amazon considering it was ...
In The Jungle
... Aguas Caliente, we caught a great night´s sleep at this great guesthouse in Cusco called Recolata Turistico before departing for Puerto Maldonado and the Peruvian jungle. We stayed at Ecoamazonia, which was a pretty killer place. ...
Back from the Jungle
Well we´re back in Cusco after four days in the jungle. We leave tonight on an overnight bus for Arequipa. We had a really good time in spite of the crazy heat and mosquitos. Didn`t see any monkeys on ¨Monkey Island¨ but we did get to hold a baby ...
There's gold in them there rivers
Gold mining is very active in the area and I went out to visit some of the miners. It was very interesting and I ended up buying 2 grams of gold that I sent out to have assayed. It came back 98.5% gold, 1.5% silver. The language barrier was very ...
A bugs life
We spent two nights in a lodge in the Amazon....beautiful but ALOT of bugs.....and other wildlife. Two nights in an open walled room were just enough. Especially when we left and transferred to the tour office and discovered a giant huntsman sized spider ...
Selva!
Despues de un ultimo dia de fiaca en Cusco, un vuelo de media hora, una combi de 45 minutos y un bote por tres horas...Llegamos al amazonas peruano!! La estadia fue en la bellisima posada del rio Tambopata y entre arañas, ratas, grillos y mosquitos, ...
Deep in the jungle....
Hi everyone, Well after surviving the inca trail, we headed straight to the Jungle to try and see some wildlife... We flew to Puerto Maldonado, on the Rio de Madres River, to visit the Tambopata nature recerve. Our guide met us at the airport, ...
Kiteni? Where is that?
Today Tom Lucy and I toddled off to the office at the hospital to ask if we could all go to this random little village 8 hours bus ride away from Quillabamba called Ivochote. Fiona (our rep) had given us a box of medication to take to them, except for ...
The big trek
... when we left and was a riot of colour as the locals still wear traditional dress in this area - gorgeous. As in most of Peru, locals have cottoned on to the fact that most tourists love looking at mountains and most tourists are pretty stupid. So they ...
Jungle Boogie..whooohoo
We managed to blag a ride with a tourist boat up the Tambopata River alongside 2 American with socks to their knees who probably paid an awfull lot of money for that. Hee hee. Saw a few cool birds, loads of turtles with heaps of white butterflies on ...
Amazon Jungle - Puerto Maldonado
We touched down in Puerto Maldonado after a 30 min flight from Cusco in the morning. It was sweltering!! We got a bus and then a boat to our lodge, which was lovely and then went for a walk up a viewing tower (saw nothing but mosquitos ...
In the jungle, the mighty jungle...
... weather is just about the only bad thing. It was not really that hot, just humid, up near the 100% mark. After flying into Peurto Maldonado we had a short bus ride to the river from where we had a 90 minute ride in a motorboat (OK, it was one of those ...
Jungle Fever
wheyhey...had to get a taxi boat back to Puerto Maldonado, which took about 5 hours. Shared the boat with tonnes of platano and other fruit, a few cute kids, some chicken in a bag a 'bound'tortoise and after we thought that there surely couldn't be ...
Amazon Jungle
It was another early morning start with wake up call at 4:40am. We flew to Puerto Maldonado and visited a local market before heading off to Ecoamazonia Lodge which is located at Tambopata Reserve, 30km downstream of Madre de Dios River. The first ...