Our boat - below
Today we got picked up
at 9.30am – it was about 15 minutes to the airport where we got a plane for 30
minutes to Puerto Maldonado. We
had to re-pack those belongings we needed for the jungle into a duffel bag – no
weight limit this time thank goodness.
We then took a bus ride down to ‘Hell Port’ where we caught this little
boat for 2 hours to the lodge. On
the way we went animal spotting and saw the largest rodent in the world – it
actually has webbed feet and goes into the water to escape it’s predators – we
nicknamed it the hippo-rat! We had
a nice picnic lunch on the boat before arriving at the eco-lodge- Tambopata
Lodge. The lodge is located in the
Tambopata reserve in the Peruvian Amazon Jungle. It’s really pretty but hot! It was 35 degrees when we arrived with 95% humidity. We had a nice rest in the hammock for a
few hours and Josh enjoyed a beer.
We had a short presentation on the animals in the jungle at 6.30pm –
insects, snake, Cayman (alligator family), hippo-rat, jaguar and puma, before
having dinner. After dinner we
went out on a night walk to spot noturnal animals. Check out the clothes that we are wearing! There are mosiqutos everywhere so you
have to wear long sleeves and tuck your top into your trousers and your
trousers into your socks – so very unattractive but since I am sporting 28
bites from the hiking – count me in!
