Pro: saw wild macaw, squirrel monkeys, cayman, butterflies the size of an adults hand, fishing, just to name a few. Con: mossies!!!! I forgot why I insisted on signing us up for the Amazon jungle expedition. For being in the middle of jungle, the lodge we stayed at was amazing! Our beds had mosquito nets, but the place was not enclosed which mea...

Dag nummer to i regnskogen og idag våknet vi til plaskende regnvær og det var ikke like gøy. Men i regnskogen må man visst regne med at det regner, selv utenom regnperioden.... :-( Opp klokken fem måtte vi også.... Begynte med å gå i en times tid (iført regnkapper) for å komme til en innsjø (kalles Oxbow lake i Amazonas) før vi satte oss i en ka...

This is the last entry for Peru - after having been to the coast, the Cusco & Sacred valleys, Lake Titicaca, it's finally time for the Selva Amazonia - the jungle. Puerto Maldonaldo is a port city on the Rio de Madre de Dios (Mother of God river). On the map it looks less distance from Cusco as Lake Titicaca in a straight line, but whereas the l...

A final brekkie in our fav restaurant in the square (Trotomundo) - we love that fruit and granola. The off to get the plane to Puerto Maldonado, only a half hour flight away but like another country. When we got out of the plane the heat (35C) and humidity (90%) hit us like a brick wall. "Welcome to the jungle" laughed our guide as we all wilted...

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 that I could do some cooking. I´m having a hard time trying to figure the food out in the restaurants.

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 have to further investage the smoke, but I´m sure that it´s slash and burn practices.

It took me a while to remember it was my birthday since I was focused on getting ready for my day of activities. To start with, we were going on a canopy walk. The company have built a couple of stairways up 100ft into the trees then linked about 10 trees together with walkways between them. It was all quite safe looking with metal wire encasing...

The plane trip to Puerto Maldonado took only 30 minutes, and before we knew it we were in town, walking down to the local markets. Zac (an English girl from the tour) and I went to look at some CDs and she purchased three: a Reggeton one, Tonelas and another dancy kind of CD. We returned to where Emilia and the group were waiting for our tour bu...

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 to stay while visiting the Amazon. A few final points about the lodge itself: 1) there is no e...

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% humidity!. The weather stayed the same for the 3 days we were there (which was extremely lucky as i...