We escaped to the jungle for 4 days which I had been dying to do after spending far too much time in busy cities. After a horrendous overnight bus ride we arrived in Puerto Maldonaldo, 14 hours north-east of Cusco. We then took a 45 minutes boat ride down the river and found ourselves in the Amazon. Although it was secondary, not primary, rainforest it was spectacular. The hot, sticky jungle was filled with an incredible amount of creatures and we were fortunate enough to spot caiman, squirrel monkeys, spider monkeys, tamarind monkeys, tarantulas, macaws, parrots, turtles, frigs and a lot of creepy crawlers. We went Caiman spotting at night on a longboat, went trekking through the jungle on monkey island, walked among the top of the trees on a canopy walk then flew among these trees as we zip-lined furiously through them, kayaked as hard as we could upstream then quickly got washed back downstream, tried to spot the critter in our room who stole our food at night, fished for piranhas, catfish and an interestingly named ass-fish, and spend hours playing with a baby spider monkey in a hammock. And we rowed along tiny rivers that pooled into a massive lake where we swum in caiman, piranha and anaconda-infested waters whilst squirrel monkeys played overhead.
Isn't life glorious?
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