Puerto Maldonado Lodges

... planning for a long time to see wild parrots in their native habitats. We will be staying at some of the world's greatest Eco-Lodges and learning as much as we can from the top researchers in South America. We are hoping to gain more insights into the ...

Wed 10.9.08: Peru, Puerto Maldonado: ("Amazon Basin") PERSONAL: Straight after disemarking the Machu Picchu train, it was then a short flight to Puerto Maldonado. Arrived to a blast of hot and muggy tropical air in Puerto Maldonado ...

... 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 ...

With a title like "Peru's Gateway to the Amazon", you could be forgiven for thinking that Puerto Maldonado might be a really happening place. However, you'd be wrong. This town is not exciting. Not in the least. The tourist trade is big ...

... is one of the most established eco-tourism lodges on the banks of the Tambopata River, and one of nine rainforest lodges in the Puerto Maldonado area. The Lodge itself, seen the next morning, is lovely, set in beautiful grounds with birds of every colour ...

We had an uber short flight, 40 minutes, to Puerto Maldonado airport and were meet by Carlos our guide for the next few days. We were surprised how different Puerto Maldonado was from the rest of Peru. Firstly the climate is dramatically different with it ...

Zurück in Puerto Maldonado quartierten wir uns in der Anaconda Lodge ein. Normalerweise sind alle Lodges mehrere Bootsstunden von Puerto Maldonado entfernt zu finden und nur mit Pauschalreisen zu erreichen. Unsere Tour mied die gängig besuchten Orte im ...

... maybe he appreciates more what it's like to go through customs. Cusco airport was pretty nice and our half hour flight to Puerto Maldonado was very comfortable. Once in PM, I bought more sunglasses (I already lost my cool mirror ones on the trail) ...

... on and switched on the electronic devices that we're switching them off and grabbing our luggage from the conveyor belt.  Puerto Maldonado airport is notable only for it's one store - being a jungle survival store.  The other thing that hits ...

... . He is one of the youngest of 7, so his parents decided he should go to university. He studied conservation in Puerto Maldonado for 5 years, and is incredibly knowledgeable about all aspects of the rainforest. He´s not long finished his degree, and ...

... an introduction to our young Naturalist Guide, José Antonio, before piling back into the bus for a ride into the centre of Puerto Maldonado, a city in South Eastern Peru and capital of the Madre de Dios Region. Whilst there we took a city tour including ...

... trip was required since Ive always always wanted to go to the Amazon rainforest, so last saturday me and Rich flew to Puerto Maldonado (apparently its a city, and the airport is international but it looks rather like a little shack in someones back garden ...

... , 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 ...

... , the owners of Manu Wildlife Center.  First we would spend about 4 days at Sandoval Lake Lodge (only 30 minutes from Puerto Maldonado by boat), then another 3 in Heath River Wildlife Lodge, 5 hours upriver and on the Bolivian side of the ...

... 0.   Hallo zusammen,   Letztes wochenende waren wir im dschungel, 4 tage lang. Wir flogen von Cusco nach Puerto Maldonado wo wir abgeholt warden sollten. Leider hat der Guide uns vergessen und ist mit nur einer Person abgehauen. ...

... Peruvian jungle trip, which actually took place between Tuesday, 8/29 and Friday, 9/1. You may recall that upon arrival in Puerto Maldonado, our planned route into Bolivia turned out to be impassable/impossible. Even if we had been able to negotiate ...

... experiences. Our first lodge was called Pasada and was located on the Tambopata River about an hour boat ride away from Puerto Maldonado. Pasada was in the middle of pristine primary forest and offered us the best experience of what untouched jungle ...