Jungle!

Trip Start Nov 28, 2005

Trip End May 05, 2006

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Flag of Peru Tambopata National Reserve, Peru
Sunday, March 26, 2006

My mom and I decided to forgo visiting the Nazca lines and flew to Puerto Maldonato instead to visit the jungle in two pretty jungle lodges. We spent five days slogging through mud, paddling around on canoe-like boats and getting scared by snakes and spiders as big as plates during night hikes. It was a blast.

Instead of boring you with my bad descriptions of all the animals and plants that we encountered in the jungle I am going to list all the amazing things we saw:

a tick in my belly
butterflys off all colors and sizes (some as big as birds!)
hoatzin
kingfishers
herons- tiger heron
caimen
bats
scorpian spider
tree boa
fireflies
assorted bugs
squirrel monkeys
giant otters
tarantulas
turtles
capybaras
lizards
coral snake
catydids
carnivourous plants
cappicino monkeys
brazil nut trees
cocoa trees

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01-Jungle juice cart	02-Jungle manequins	03-Puerto Maldonado	04-Jungle manequin
05-Road of Brazil nut shells	06-Mom on the boat upriver	07-Me and mom and a big tree	08-Wild Pepino!
09-Mariposa	10-Dead Mariposa	11-Alive Mariposa	12-Our helpers
13-Our guide, Jesus (but not for life)	14-Jungle sunset	15-Jungle sunset	16-Just a friendly little snake at night. Scary.
17-This spider is as big as a plate	18-Birds with Mohawks	19-Bats!!! So cute	20-Pretty flowers
21-Bushy tailed squirrel	22-A little Caimen	23-Lake scum	24-Another sneaky little caimen
25-Lake Sandoval	26-Mariposas	27-Cute grasshopper	28-Mom hiking in the jungle
29-Colorful lizard	30-Bolivian border	31-Where all our INS money goes to.	32-Bolivia border
33-Me on the way to Heath Lodge	34-Capybaras! The worlds largest rodent (160lbs)	35-Our boat	36-we were welcomed with a delicious drink
37-Birds	38	39	40
41	42-birds	43-	44
45-Typical jungle roof construction	46-Mom relaxing outside our blind	47-Our blind for viewing the Clay lick and birds	48-Friendly tree
49-Another crazy big tree. Only 150 years old!	50-More friendly trees	51-Mom inside crazy big tree	52-Cocoa on a tree!
53-Mariposa	54-Termite mound	55-Cicada mounds	56-Jungle debris
57-big bug	58-Termite mound in the pampas	59-Carnivorous plant!	60-Sunset in the Pampas
61-Mom coming down from the viewing platform	62-Leaf	63-Turtles in the jungle!	64-Heath Lodge
65-flowers	66-mom making friends at the Peru border check	67-Gold mining on the river	68-Really cool caterpiller
69-Our really muddy trail to the lodge	70-unknown to me i have a mosquito on my head	71-Mom in a reflective moment	72-Beetle
73-Yummy fresh Brasil nuts	74-Monkey!	75-Monkey!	76
77-Storm moving in	78-Storm gathering	79-Trying to paddle back to shore before it hits	80-Barely any light left
81-a cute frog in my room	82-catepillar	83-Bathroom decoration	84-Maybe the worlds smallest taxi
85-taxi	86-Don't ask why	87-Our last view of Cusco from the airplane. Sad	88-Saying goodbye to mom