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Puerto Maldonado Slideshow
Puerto Maldonado
Travel Blogs from Puerto Maldonado, Peru
Ayahuasca Part I - Bienviendo a Infereno
15/12/04- Puerto Maldonado At about 4 that afternoon 7 of us (Kino, Tiago, Synthja, Pierina, Ellana Anotoli and I) clambered into a big, old, beaten, red Toyota pick up truck. Sitting along the sides of the open top back part it felt like the ...
Welcome to the Jungle, we got fun and games
... for all people with the rio cabana "upgrades". After battling out of the mosquito net it was plain sailing back to Puerto Maldonado and then on to aiport and into Cusco where cab negotiations commenced again. Some cheeky chap tried to charge ...
Welcome to the Jungle
... - Nice crowd on the tour, 11 in total including two newlywed couples (one from Cork). Early start to get flight to Puerto Maldonado and transfer to jungle lodge via canoe. Short stop off in Puerto Maldonado town to pick up some provisions and had ...
Off to the jungle :-)
... and a shit load of photos. This update below covers the jungle.)****** 7 of us headed to the airport for our flight down to Puerto Maldonado (West of Cuzco). John, Tricia and I were going for 4 days (2 nights on the Heath River and 1 in Sandoval Lake ...
In the jungle the mighty jungle...
After our relaxing day in Cusco following the Inca Trail, Bev and I decided to go on a four day jungle trip for a change of scenery. We flew direct from Cusco to Peurto Moldonado, where we were picked up by our guide, Lucy. As soon as we stepped off ...
Caught between Rocks and a Wet Place
... airport. THey waved me through, without really checking and didn`t bother to search me when I set off the beeper. I guess Puerto Maldonado isn`t Al Quirda`s Number 1 target. 40 minutes later we were ushered onto the plane, a surprising nice, modern ...
James fulfils childhood Tarzan fantasy
... apparently due to weather, although all the other flights to Cuzco seemed to be leaving without trouble), we arrived in Puerto Maldonado, a good five hours later than anticipated, and armed with advice from James´s mother and grandmother about keeping ...
Puerto Maldonado, Peru (day 8)
... little plane. There was almost nobody on it besides us, the Dutch family, the Australian couple, and some young people headed to Puerto Maldonado to do some mission work. I found it interesting to realize that I was more or less vacationing in a place ...
Caiman in the Rain - Eco Amazonia Lodge
... is 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 ...
Mitten im Amazonas!!!
... in den Amazonas Regenwald. Das war zwar mit vielen Strapazen verbunden: wir mussten erst 10h ueber Nacht mit dem Bus nach Puerto Maldonado fahren, dort 6h auf unser Boot warten und nach dem Abenteuer wieder 2Naechte im Bus verbringen (10h nach Cusco ...
"Oh, I've had such a curious dream!" said Alice
... , to visit relatives perhaps or stock up on supplies in the `big city` and headed off to find the mini bus back to Puerto Maldonado. That evening we had our farewell meal, the three off us before heading our separate ways. Tiago and Kino were heading to ...
In the Jungle, the mighty Jungle, awee umbumba way
We arrived in Cuzco, capital of the inca empire, and prepared for our three days in the Amazon jungle. The next day we fly to the jungle landing at the smallest airport we have ever seen. We take a boat (canoe with an outboard) for 2 hours down the ...
Tarantulas, Pirranahs, and Camens Oh my!
... experience to entering the jungle. We happened upon a great lodge (not forcasted by the ramshackled business office/home in Puerto Maldonado, a town the Lonely Planet describes as a place best avoided), an extraordinary guide, Antonio, and had a ...
Welcome to the Jungle
... the jungle that we never dared follow.) So, we fly from Cusco to the lodge's sign-in/staging facility in Puerto Mandonaldo - central Peru - and are promptly informed that we can only take 2 small backpacks (in total) with us so that we don't tip ...
Ayahuasca, an introduction
Ayahuasca is a vine used in the Jungle areas of Latin America, although sometimes under a different name. It is a medicine and has been used by Shamans for many thousands of years. Translated it can mean Vine of Life, Soul, Death and/or Enlightenment. ...
Kamiseraki... Waliki!!
Puno at night also turned out to be highly entertaining... or at least the hardcore Budget crew made their own entertainment in the dodgy disco above the Ekeku restaurant... Crazy dancing at altitude is pretty tough, but hangovers can be even worse as ...
Corto Maltes, Rio Madre de Dios, Peru (day 10)
I woke up expecting to be attacked by the intense heat, but it was actually somewhat cloudy and overcast- Yay! Less heat, happier me. After breakfast, John and I said goodbye to our Dutch friends. They were a very entertaining group to be with, and it ...
Welcome to the jungle....
Welcome to the jungle, We got fun 'n' games, We got all sorts of bugs & birds, we don't know the names... How 'bout that for a song then!! Quite impressed with my lyrical talent today. I'm rivalling Nomes for song writing right now.... So we ...
Volunteering in Cai Cay
One week down and three more to go. We have survived our first week of volunteering in Cai Cay. It started off a little rocky, but I think we'll have smooth sailing from here - we hope! Cai Cay is a little town about an hour (east as far as we can ...
The Amazon Jungle
... , its Peruvian but its still the Amazon. We caught a flight out from Cuzco which took us 45 minutes to reach the city of Puerto Maldonado which is the closest city to the jungle. Once at the airport we found a local guide holding up our sign ready to ...
Into the Amazon Basin
Slightly more relaxed the next morning following Machu Picchu, we were off to Cuzco airport and our flight to Puerto Maldonado the easternmost city in Peru, located in the Amazon basin. The flight there was a bit shaky, but the turbulence hardly made ...
Jungle!
My mom and I decided to forgo visiting the Nazca lines and flew to Puerto Maldonato instead to visit the jungle in two pretty jungle lodges. We spent five days slogging through mud, paddling around on canoe-like boats and getting scared by snakes and ...
Corto Maltes, Rio Madre de Dios, Peru (day 9)
In the darkness of 4 in the morning I climbed out from under the mosquito net, and fumbled around for a flashlight. Using this, I somehow managed to get ready for the day, and try to hide from the gigantic cockroach roaming around the room. I think ...
Welcome to the jungle!!
Headed to the airport early and caught our flight from cusco to Puerto Maldonado (gateway to the Amazon!). Flight was fast and took a short bus ride then a 90 minute boat ride to our lodge. Arrived to find it much nicer than we expected with ...
The Children s Forest II - eco toilet
The next 5 days passed as a blur- I already find myself back in Puerto Maldonado. No that s not true, I m now in Cuzco for New Year, but when I wrote this in my journal it was a fair amount of time ago. The days were short because the heat at midday made ...
Got DEET?
... half our group who would not be continuing on with us. The next morning we headed out to the airport to catch our flight to Puerto Maldonado. As is quite common,, our flight was delayed by about and hour so we did not arrive to Puerto until later in ...
Puerto Maldonado-Cuzco, Peru (day 11)
... and a lot for the eyes to take in. Once we had our fill of exploring in the heat, we were taken to the little Puerto Maldonado airport. It was oppressively hot in there, and since it was basically outside, the only cool air was coming from the fans on ...
People are strange, when you´re a stranger...
... to be doing here, the email address I had for ANIA didn´t work, and I didn´t have an address. I was on my own! But Puerto isn´t very big and so it wasn´t too much trouble to track them down. I entered the nice L-shaped bungalow, walled off with a ...
Refugio Amazonas
... ; The airline segment was a nightmare. Our prebooked flight was cancelled and we were put on another flight that gets to Puerto Maldonado a couple hours later. Since I was planning to jump off the plane, rush to town and buy the train tickets ...