Ecoamazonia Lodge Tambopata National Reserve

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 lake is on the altiplano (high plains), to get to PM you have to climb over high mountain passes, then descend through cloud forest to the plains below...

Day 32 - 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 the 'pleasure' of seeing a bloke wipe his bare **** in a puddle, i kid you not.

Anyway, after reaching lodgings and having lunch, we headed to monkey island. We saw one monkey (eventually) though i imagine the machete the guide was usi...

Our two night jungle tour in the Amazon jungle was a great experience and we were certainly happy we made the effort to fly to Puerto Maldonado. When we landed at the airport John and I started to panic slightly as all this what seemed to be smoke started rushing through these vents in the plane. It was actually just really cold air to accomodate for the extreme temperature outside. It was 40+ degrees (celcius)and so humid and sticky. We had gone from one extreme temperature to another in a m...

After stomping around Machu Picchu for a couple days and a seemingly interminable train ride back to Cusco from Aguas Caliente, we caught a great night´s sleep at this great guesthouse in Cusco called Recolata Turistico before departing for Puerto Maldonado and the Peruvian jungle. We stayed at Ecoamazonia, which was a pretty killer place. Just the fact that we had to take a boat up the Rio Madre de Dios for an hour and a half to get there was more than enough to sell me on this place. Throw ...

It was another early morning start with wake up call at 4:40am. We flew to Puerto Maldonado and visited a local market before heading off to Ecoamazonia Lodge which is located at Tambopata Reserve, 30km downstream of Madre de Dios River. The first impresion of the lodge was excellent. I could easily stay for a week just to chill out. There was ample of birds and animals near by. However, on close analysis much of the animal and birds there were domesticated. The Green Winged Macaws stay in th...

Choquequirao, the most amazing experience of my life This walk was unbelievable, and all those other adjectives like spectacular, amazing, awe-inspiring... truly the most remarkable experience of my entire life. And all of this, given Mum and I started with very low expectations (our trip was reduced from 5 to 4 days, making it a very difficult prospect, and the 2 other people in our group pulled out so it was only Mum and I plus the guide, cook and horse guy). Don´t get me wrong, the walk wa...

Stepping off the plane after just a short 45 minute hop over the Peruvian hills on Friday morning we immediately noticed two things. The first was the warm, humid air that encircled us. And the second was that this air was also blissfully heavy with oxygen, delicious, how we had missed it so! We had flown into Puerto Maldonado to experience the Peruvian jungle and get our own small taste of the Amazon rainforest of which this area forms one of the Westernmost fringes. At the airport, we were ...

The exciting jungle trip. After crashing super early after the Inca Trail we slept in a bit and forgot a flashlight and a pillow behind in our hostel room. I had a feeling that this was going to be a fun day. We arrive to the airport in Cuzco a little over an hour early, should be plenty of time. We head to the express check-in line and attempt to print off our boarding passes. Nicole´s prints off fine but mine has an error requiring me to meet with the attendant. So after standing in line fo...

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 nice cabins and our lunch served in a banana leaf! After lunch we headed off by boat to Monkey Island where we saw 4 different species of monkeys including Spider adn Tamarin. They were a little to used to seeing tourists as they didn't run away from us e...

Our last week in Cusco has been great as we visited the hot and humid Amazon jungle! This has turned out to be our favorite part of our trip….so far!

As soon as we landed and got off the plane, we were hit with the heat. We started peeling off the layers of clothes we were wearing in Cusco. It felt good to sweat a little.

An open bus with no windows picked us up from the airport and it felt good to get fresh air as we were driving into town. We stopped at the office of the...