When we were planning Peru I really fancied heading to the jungle. I didn’t think it would happen but then we got Olive started in school in Ollanta and found out there was a weeks vacation in the middle. So off we went this week to the Amazon. Literally - wow.
We book-ended the trip with a stopover in Cusco both sides. In the first weekend we bought clothes and toys for Olive and ate loads of lovely food - great chinese at Kion, local lomo saltado in the same place we had before and lots of crepes! We also looked round a museum about making clothes.
For the long journey from Cusco to the jungle, we treated ourselves to the posh bus with fully reclining seats to take us the 10 hours overnight to Puerto Maldonado. I still slept rubbish. It rained torrentially most of the journey with loads of lightening and water dripping through the coach roof onto our heads.
We split our time in Puerto between a great ecolodge on the edge of town called Wasai and a proper ecolodge in the jungle. Wasai was lovely, it felt jungly looking out of our room over the river but we could still walk into the central Plaza del Armas for dinner and provisions.
We took advantage of being in town to book tours directly from the agencies which were half the cost. We took a night tour to see the caiman alligators which was fun. We even managed to feed some bananas to howler monkeys as it was getting dark. No photos as it was dark!
The next day we visited Lake Hayamama to fish for pirhana. Although I think fishing for piranha should be super easy, I caught none, zero, nada, zip! Selina got 2 and, yup, Olive even got one!! I think I had dodgy bait.
Next stop an ecolodge in the jungle proper…
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