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  Puerto Maldonado, Peru
Saturday, April 26, 2008

After stomping around Machu Picchu for a couple days and a seemingly interminable train ride back to Cusco from Aguas Caliente, we caught a great nightīs sleep at this great guesthouse in Cusco called Recolata Turistico before departing for Puerto Maldonado and the Peruvian jungle. 
 
We stayed at Ecoamazonia, which was a pretty killer place.  Just the fact that we had to take a boat up the Rio Madre de Dios for an hour and a half to get there was more than enough to sell me on this place.  Throw in the fact that we saw tons of monkeys, caimans, and went fishing for piranhas and swimming in one of the Amazonīs feeder rivers and the $190 I laid out for 3 days there was just about the best money Iīve spent. 
 
Plus I got to kick Ericīs arse in ping pong a couple times, which always makes me happy and we drank and explored the jungle with some cool Welsh dudes, one of whom provided great physical comedy by mishandling the rope swing and tumbling down the muddy riverbank into the river.
 
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Puerto Maldonado	More of Puerto Maldonado	Boat launch	Boats are the way to get around
Can´t enjoy the ride without a Cusquena	Navigating the Rio de Madre Dios	Eric getting in on the Cusquena action	Searching for gold on the river
Find the spider Monkey 1	Find the spider Monkey 2	Tamarin Monkeys	They like bananas...
A lot.	Find the spider Monkey 3	Find the spider Monkey 4	The Spider Monkey
They also like bananas	And swinging in the trees	Just hanging aroun	A monkey chilling
Chasing after something	More monkeys	La Isla de los Monos	Mas monos hanging around
On the ground	I think it´s mooning me	It´s got a baby	More of the monkeys doing something
Back to the tree	More of the monkeys doing stuff in trees	More of the monkeys doing stuff in trees 2	More of the monkeys doing stuff in trees 3
A brown monkey	More of the monkeys doing stuff in trees 4	More of the monkeys doing stuff in trees 5	More of the monkeys doing stuff in trees 6
More of the monkeys doing stuff in trees 7	More of the monkeys doing stuff in trees 8	More of the monkeys doing stuff in trees 9	Brown monkey with baby 1
Brown monkey with baby 2	Brown monkey with baby 3	More monkeys en el arbol	More monkeys en el arbol 2
More monkeys en el arbol 3	More monkeys en el arbol 4	Sun setting on the river	Found a tapir at the lodge
The moon on the river	Me in jungle	La laguna 1	La laguna 2
La laguna 3	La laguna 4	La laguna 5	La laguna 6
Fishing for piranhas	Me taking the plunge	More of the sun setting	Another sunset photo
And another sunset pic	And one last one	The gang on the boat	Last supper at Ecoamazonia
Another Tapir	Heçs looking for food	Feliz viaje	Our bungalow at the lodge
Macaws	River scene on way back	Loading bananas	Bananas sitting in boat
Around and about Puerto Maldonado	Around and about Puerto Maldonado 2	Around and about Puerto Maldonado 3	Around and about Puerto Maldonado 4
Around and about Puerto Maldonado 5	Around and about Puerto Maldonado 6	Around and about Puerto Maldonado 7	Around and about Puerto Maldonado 8
Around and about Puerto Maldonado 9

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