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The not-so-little plane that took us to Puerto Maldonaldo airport via Cusco... |
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The airport wasn't exactly huge |
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In fact this is all it was, an overgrown shed. Didn't take long to get through it though :) |
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Our carriage was a lorry with garden seats bolted to the back and a cover. But it worked! |
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The weather was stifling hot until you got used to it - everywhere was green though, and there was always at least one bird in view |
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Puerto Maldonaldo is very much a fronteir town. This road from the airport to the dock seemed to be the only on with tarmac. |
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There are only two main forms of transport - bikes and tuk tuks |
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A strange mix of old and new was everywhere |
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Our first glimpse of the river, the Madre de Dios - Mother of God - one of the major tributaries of the Amazon |
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We were transported along the river in these longboats |
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Doesn't Hannah look fetching in the lifejacket? :) |
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Not our lodges, but took a pic anyway |
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This little tarantula was waiting for us at ours! |
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Our rooms for the next three nights |
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Trumpeter birds, dumb things! |
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Those things hanging down from the tree are the nests of the black and yellow birds |
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The tree's roots only go down a metre or so, and therefore the big ones have these big structral roots |
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The next coupley photo! |
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Cesar, our guide, doing the Tarzan thing |