Cayman Lodge Amazonia
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In the Amazonian Jungle!
We flew from Cusco to Puerto Maldonado and then took a bus to the river. The river was a tributary of the mighty Amazon. We travelled by boat for 2 hours to our jungle lodge. Along the way we stopped to see some Macaws which were very bright and colourful. We saw a lot of caymans lying in the sun along the shore. When we got close they quietly …
Mawcaws, monkeys, and insects
My first dawn on the river was meet with the gravelly sound of a red howler monkey annoucing his presence in the jungle and ended with a very close encounter with a cayman. At the first dawn at 5am I was standing at the clay lick where I was soon to see various mawcaws and parrots arrive to eat the clay they needed for essential minerals that they …
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, and 3 hours on a boat to get to Cayman Lodge. The best thing about the trip was our lunch packed …
Exploring the Amazon Basin
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
~Mark Twain
After a quick stop back in Cuzco, we were off via plane to Puerto Maldonado, the …
Amazon not so rainy forest
... did see them from a distance so our guide took us on a boat to get a better view and we got really lucky they cam quite close grunted at us then swam off. The best bit was when they started eating the piranhas near the bank. We then trekked back to the lodge in the afternoon. In the evening we had a night trek started by climbing a canopy tower then trek for a while in the dark, the amazon is a completely different place by night you hear so many noises ...
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