Don Carlos Puerto Maldonado

... into the Amazon, seeing extraordinary flora and fauna, which the guide gave a fine explanation of. Amongst others, we saw a tarantula, fire ants, a black caimen, loads of various birds, turtles, medicinal plants / trees etc. We went to a caiman lake after lunch seeing several white and black caiman chomping down the fish we fed them. Although the information given on the things pointed out was first class, i remember little of it - hence little details noted here. Was told ...

... The highlight was the sleeping anaconda. Our guide told us that the Anaconda is the most feared animal in the jungle and is usually killed by the Amazonians. It’s an aggressive snake and it was not one that we would want to awaken. We also saw lots of tarantulas, which stay in their holes the whole time just waiting for their meal to pass by. I have never seen so many beautiful and colorful butterflies or mariposas in Spanish!

Puerto Maldonado, Peru worldtraveler2

... of tourists as being lazy and rich, who would much rather spend a buck than break a sweat. I am not lazy, nor am I rich, so I am sure I gave their schemas a little refinition.* On the way, a motorcyclist cruised past me and swiped my hat right off my head and rode off, waving his middle finger, back and forth as if tosay ¨Ah, ah, ah. You should know better to walk down the street in Puerto with a hat on.¨ I fell to my knees and looked to the ...

... did little to provide a signifcant amount of comfort to my pitiful situation. My body was going in and out of a painful fever spiking rollar coaster for awhile there. For a couple days, I did not know if I was about to get hit upside the head with a nasty disease or what was going on with me. I still dont know what was going on. It took me about a week to get close to a conciousness where I felt confident that I was awake and in control, not in some dream state. The ...

... A huge spotlight on the boat illuminated them just enough to take pictures. As exciting as this sounds, it wasn't really. Later on in the Pantanal of Brazil, we saw hundreds of Cayman mid-day piled on top of one another. So really the best part about going out on the river, was the boat ride itself. On this particular night, there were no moon and clouds. The night sky was amazing. I had never seen so many stars! There were so many stars that ...

... a couple things. 1- I am a wimp. 2-Dry season means it rains for 10 instead of 12 hours a day. 3- I stink. 4- I hate ants.

Upon first impression, the people in Puerto are pretty hip, they love their UFC and wrestling, have a much more Miami FL type of dress to them and love nothing more to cruise on their ****** rockets all day and night. Living is a little bit more expensive, but not drastically, and the people are pretty cool (I mean cool as in, yo!, not ...

... studs, bulldog t-shirts which were several sizes too small and tattoos in every orifice, they are not the type of people I would like to be prescribing me drugs.

Takin' the Mick out of the Yanks

Most unusually the side room of the pub became one big happy family and we were blethering away to all and sundry. One of the lesbian pharmacists (the one being ignored by the rest of them - presumably not butch enough) approached us for a chat ...

... we stayed in. I shared my bungalow with my friends Liz, Ada and Zipporah. It had a little porch and hammock - - but NO electricity. We used candles and flashlights when it started to get dark. There were also tiki torches along the paths so that we could see where we were going. At night we did a night tour and we saw over 10 types of spiders, huge bullet ants, butterflies, a coral snake and different types of ...

... such as Black Skimmers, Pied Lapwings, Capped
Herons, Jabiru Storks, Roadside Hawks and several species of
kingfishers, swallows, parrots and flycatchers. The area is renowned
for its diverse plant and animal population and include over 1300
bird species (including 32 parrot species – 10% of the worlds
total), 200 mammal species including 4 species of primates, 90 frog
species, 1200 butterfly species and 10,000 species of higher plants – ...

Saturday

Off to the Amazon. After a flight, took a motorised canoe upstream for three hours to a wilderness lodge made completely out of wood. Only 2 hrs electricity each day. Kerosene lamps and candles for light. Mosquito nets at night in 4 poster beds. Open windows to the rainforest. Bar and spa. Very romantic.

Sunday

Being a rainforest, thats what it did. So they ...