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Puerto Maldonado Slideshow
Puerto Maldonado
Travel Blogs from Puerto Maldonado, Peru
Juicy in the Jungle
Finally heat!! We flew over the jungle to the tiny airport at puerto malderno where we were transferred to the river Madre de Dios, which we were then motored down to our eco hotel in the Jungle (which is in the amazon basin). Our first day - ...
Into The Jungle
... like since we decided to go over a year ago. We arrived back at Jorge Chavez International Airport and boarded a flight for Puerto Maldonado, over the snow-capped Andes and into the Amazonian Rainforest. Our guides that were taking us into the jungle met ...
Peru, Puerto Maldonado: ("Amazon Basin")
Wed 10.9.08: Peru, Puerto Maldonado: ("Amazon Basin") PERSONAL: Straight after disemarking the Machu Picchu train, it was then a short flight to Puerto Maldonado. Arrived to a blast of hot and muggy tropical air in Puerto Maldonado ...
1er dia de selva
A las 9 partimos a la selva, Saturnino llevaba todo lo necesario para la expedición su bote es pequeño pero muy pintoresco y tiene todo lo necesario. El 1er punto fue Project Abrota, una reserva ecológica que rescata animales salvajes en peligro para ...
Welcome to the Jungle
Day 12: Cusco to Puerto MAldonado Good bye altitude, hello extreme heat, humidity and lots of bugs and mossies. Basically Puerto MAldonade is the Amazon jungle in Peru. This stinking hot town has about 50,000 people living here. The one little township ...
The Amazon
... shop a little, but I'm not good at making those kinds of decisions. On Saturday, I booked a trip for four days to Puerto Maldonado on a tributary to the Amazon, beginning Monday. I wasn't terribly excited about it. I had to choose between this and ...
Andes to Amazon
A 30 minute flight from Cusco to Puerto Maldonado left behind an altitude of over 3000m and a temperature of 15c and bought us to an altitude of 200m above sea level and an altitude of 200m above sea level and an average temp of about 31c with 95% ...
At the hotel.
... places only have it for a few hours a day so make sure. Make sure you know the voltage of where you are going. Peru is 220v, Ecuador,Columbia,Venezuela is 120v, just like ours. All of my things ran on 220v just fine. My electric razor actually ...
The Jungle!
... jungle was great! I would have spent more time there if it wasn't for out flight restrictions. But it was really nice. When we got o Puerto Maldonado we had to catch a bout ride for 1hr. 15min. when we arrived at the lodge we couldn't believe it, it was ...
Lake Titicaca for Thanksgiving
We headed off to Lake Titicaca on the Peru/Bolivia border. During our 7 hour freezing bus ride there we were shocked to see snow on the ground en route.....snow!?! We continue to be shocked (i.e. disappointed)by the weather in South America and bundle up ...
The Amazon and lots of wildlife
... Maldonado airport and were meet by Carlos our guide for the next few days. We were surprised how different Puerto Maldonado was from the rest of Peru. Firstly the climate is dramatically different with it being a lot hotter then anywhere else in South ...
Amazon Adventures
... to our young Naturalist Guide, José Antonio, before piling back into the bus for a ride into the centre of Puerto Maldonado, a city in South Eastern Peru and capital of the Madre de Dios Region. Whilst there we took a city tour including a visit to the ...
The Amazon
... experiences. Our first lodge was called Pasada and was located on the Tambopata River about an hour boat ride away from Puerto Maldonado. Pasada was in the middle of pristine primary forest and offered us the best experience of what untouched jungle ...
Tarzanin'
... on and switched on the electronic devices that we're switching them off and grabbing our luggage from the conveyor belt. Puerto Maldonado airport is notable only for it's one store - being a jungle survival store. The other thing that hits ...
Jungle journal
... it turned out both the flight there and back were absolutely fine. It must have been all that praying that Debbie did! On landing at Puerto Maldonado we were greeted by our guide Lucy holding a sign bearing my name - I love it when they do that! The heat ...
Lake Titicaca
... tried to sneak the rest off on to Tim. Next was a trip up to the top of the island for some views over Bolivia, and Peru, then to a soccer game where the attitude was playing havoc on the players, i didn't even bother but Tim got out there and gave it ...
Reserva Amazonica
Puerto Maldonado fue el punto de partida para el corto (45 min) viaje hasta el lodge. La lancha iba cargada con turistas y maletas hasta la manija, el agua es marron y corre fuerte, las orillas son de mucho barro y vemos muchos buscando oro con unas ...
Amazon Basin - Jungle time!!!
We met up with our group tour to travel by plane to Puerto Maldonado to make our journey to the jungle region. With our 100% deet and positive attitudes, we were OFF. It took us 2 hours by plane (1.5 hours of flight time), 1 painful hour of a bus ride, ...
De Lima a Puerto Maldonado
... en la familia disfrutamos de la gastronomía. Vuelta al hotel, a prepararnos para salir tempranito al aeropuerto para volar a Puerto Maldonado. El vuelo salió demorado por tanta neblina, pero al fin cruzamos los imponentes Andes y volvimos a bajar ...
Amazon Antics
After a 30 minute early morning flight we arrived at Puerto Maldonado a small city situated on the Madre de Dios river, a tributary of the Amazon.. Our guide took us for a quick look round the local market where we got to sample some local ...
Why do monkeys sit on my head?
... The 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 ...
Amazon Jungle
... on after the group went home. A short flight - spiced by the murmers about Manuels disappearance - and we landed in Puerto Maldonado - an outpost town reliant on gold mining, logging (sadly), and a tourist step-off for the Amazon ...
Tambopata National Reserve, Amazon Basin
7/9/08 "I arrived yesterday in Puerto Maldonado where the presence of the national strike was already apparent. At the airport, police kept all passengers from all flights on the airport grounds until all flights came in. The last flight in was ...
Time for school again
... abends mit unserem Nachtbus zurueck nach Cusco fahren. Wir hatten also einen kompletten Tag Zeit, um uns die Regenwaldstadt Puerto Maldonado anzusehen. Diese Gelegenheit schien mir sehr geeignet fuer einen Schulausflug zu sein und so marschierten Ben und ...
Cuzco to the jungle
Hi all, Well with the Inca trail behind us, Giovanna and I flew out to a small town called Puerto Maldonado which is basically a gateway to the Peruvian Amazon. We spent 3 days deep in the jungle. To reach our jungle lodge we took a small motorised canoe ...
Puerto Maldonaldo
... , Amazon Basin A short flight, only 30 minutes, took me from the high altitude Andean city of Cusco to Puerto Maldonaldo and the Peruvian Rainforest. Over 50% of Peru is part of the Amazon Basin, a jungle. An hour longboat ride, then a 3k walk on a ...
Amazon Jungle 17th - 18th June 2009
... is located within the Amazon basin, however, due to its isolation, not a lot of it is available to the casual traveller. Puerto Maldonado is the region's principle city and is situated at the confluence of the Madre de Dios and Tambopata Rivers, and is a ...
Ayahuasca part II: One step deeper
... . It was dark already but the orange mud path was well illuminated by the powerful headlamps. Again we were heading out of Puerto, a different route this time, and into the lush vegetation. It was pure exhilaration: the warm wind in my hair (even if I ...
Welcome to the Jungle
... and I have been looking forward to this forever! Another short flight and early start and we arrived at a little town called Puerto Maldanado - our starting point for the amazon rainforest, after a 2 hour boat ride we arrived at our jungle lodge. ...
"Yo soy de Bosque de Los Niños"
We got to the Puerto Maldonado's port as the day dawned and had the difficult job of lugging the heavy boxes down the steep, disintegrating mud steps. Luckily the captain took ´The Machine¨, a heavy exercise-bike-type construction. The boat was a long, ...