Leaving at 5:30 am we retraced our steps, traveling back by train to Ollantaytambo and cramming into a crowded colectivo for the drive back to Cusco, once there we headed strait to the airport where we caught a flight to our next destination. The mountains dropped away from beneath the plane into what looked like a green ocean of trees and soon we were landing in Puerto Maldonado, deep in the Peruvian Amazon. We met our guide Luís at the airport and after a short drive boarded a longboat and began our journey downstream through the brown water of the Madre de Diós river. Eventually the boat pulled up alongside a trailhead at the entrance to the Tambopata Wildlife Reserve, leaving our boat behind we donned our mud boots and trekked two hours strait into the jungle until we reached our final destination, the glassy calm waters of Sandoval Lake, where we paddled canoes across to our lodge in the forest.
Lago Sandoval - Tambopata Reserve
Boats on Río Madre de Diós - Puerto Maldonado
Amazon Rain Forest - Tambopata Reserve
Gecko, Caiman, Weevil, Tarantula - Tambopata Reserve
Kapoc Tree - Tambopata Reserve
Squirrel Monkey, Yellow Bellied Macaw - Tambopata Reserve
Sunset - Lago Sandoval