We are running low on warm clothes that don’t smell. I was quite happy that our hostel offered a laundry service; drop it off before 7am, get it àback at 6pm. I dropped it off at 6:30am yesterday (Sunday) morning and gave directions to wash in cold and hang dry. Last night we came back and our stinky clothes were still sitting in the same spot. They said it …
Our arrival back to Cusco was a bit of a shock. It was so much colder than the jungle. Our prearranged taxi driver was waiting for us at the airport. Raindrops began to fall as we made our way to the taxi in the airport parking lot. As we started driving through the city the skies let loose. Cusco is built on the side of a mountain and the …
We were dropped off for the next part of our jungle tour at the tour operator’s office in Puerto Maldonado. Here we met our guide John (who we nick named Jungle John so that there wouldn’t be any confusion with Canadian John). We took a short car drive to the river where the three of us boarded one of the river taxi boats for a 45 minute boat ride …
There were eight of us that left Puerto Maldonado for the Amazon; a newly married couple from Vancouver, a woman from Italy, a man from Peru, a couple from Spain and us makes eight. We drove for over an hour on paved and then dirt roads and then took a boat down the Tambopata River to our accomodations- the Collpa Tambopata Inn. The Tambopta River is one of the …