Last night we returned to the hummingbird garden when it was open and it was well worth the visit. The hummingbirds were like little iridescent fairies flitting from feeder to feeder. There were other birds there to. Well worth the visit. ***** Next day we awoke to a beautiful, sunny morning. After breakfast at the lodge restaurant, we met our driver who took us across the border to 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 …