The day dawned bright and sunny. I was awake early because some psychotic rooster started crowing long before dawn and kept going. We made our way down to the waterfront, passing a primary school with a very large and interesting choice of sculpture outfront. At the waterfront we saw a large sea turtle, schools of fish and a lone puffer fish. We passed a large cemetary that was uniquely …
Four am came quickly. David informed us that it was -7 degrees celsius outside. We all packed up and dressed quickly…most of us wearing the same clothes we wore the day before (and some of us to bed) , except we wore our bathing suits underneath. After having a basic breakfast of hot drinks and bread we loaded the jeeps and headed out into the darkness. Dawn broke as …
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 …
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 …