Photo /users/ross/scanned/0206 The not-so-little plane that took us to Puerto Maldonaldo airport via Cusco...
Photo /users/ross/scanned/0207 The airport wasn't exactly huge
Photo /users/ross/scanned/0208 In fact this is all it was, an overgrown shed. Didn't take long to get through it though :)
Photo /users/ross/scanned/0209 Our carriage was a lorry with garden seats bolted to the back and a cover. But it worked!
Photo /users/ross/scanned/0210 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
Photo /users/ross/scanned/0211 Puerto Maldonaldo is very much a fronteir town. This road from the airport to the dock seemed to be the only on with tarmac.
Photo /users/ross/scanned/0212 There are only two main forms of transport - bikes and tuk tuks
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Photo /users/ross/scanned/0216 Our first glimpse of the river, the Madre de Dios - Mother of God - one of the major tributaries of the Amazon
Photo /users/ross/scanned/0217 We were transported along the river in these longboats
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Photo /users/ross/scanned/0226 Doesn't Hannah look fetching in the lifejacket? :)
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Photo /users/ross/scanned/0228 Not our lodges, but took a pic anyway
Photo /users/ross/scanned/0229 This little tarantula was waiting for us at ours!
Photo /users/ross/scanned/0230 Our rooms for the next three nights
Photo /users/ross/scanned/0231 Trumpeter birds, dumb things!
Photo /users/ross/scanned/0232 Those things hanging down from the tree are the nests of the black and yellow birds
Photo /users/ross/scanned/0233 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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Photo /users/ross/scanned/0235 Cesar, our guide, doing the Tarzan thing