Puerto Maldonado Things to Do

If you have half a day free and you do not want to simply hang around the village, altough this is for me another must see activity that everyone gotta do, you could go to the harbor and rent thei tipical boat and have a cruise on the Rio...

This is pretty cool, moreover because you put yourself in a compeltely different situation, you should talk to fishermans, little young guys and old mans that makes your yourney a great adventure!

Hang around the city of Puerto Maldonado is a pretty nice experience. His red-coloured ground, his smell, his peoples and his quietness and peace make your stay lovely. You just need to get involved...that's amazing!

..This is how we had to take our "showers"....you can not complain anything...just think where you are...but please take care where you go doing this stuff...you never know what tha hell you can find...

This is a MUST, definitely a MUST.

We asked to the owner of our guesthouse to bring us into the amazony for a nice and short excursion as we wanted to avoid all the tourists that were going to some resorts, and also because we didn't have the 300Dollars that such "excursion" was requiring...

So, we close an agreement with Mirko and he (with other 3 peruvian friends of him) brought us for 8 days into the jungle till the un-reckon border point with Bolivia (and we spend just 100Dollars ALL included).

At that time I didn't know what it was waiting for me....

Can you immage to "drive" into the jungle trought rivers for 8 days with such TUK-TUK??? (check my pic)....

At a certain point the "driver" stops and I was so surprised and I asked "Hey what's up" and he told me...."Luca, we gotta cut that three"....

There was a three into the river that was blocking us...the three was 70 meters long and 2.5meter big!!!!! He cut it!!!!

I was shocked!

During those days we saw animals I even didn't know that were exsisting, i.e. birds, crocodiles, piraNas and so on...com'on you are in the amazony!!!

We went fishing (as if you want to eat you gotta fish!!!!) we just chilled, altough we took showers into the rivers, we eat only fish (I DO NOT EAT FISH) , we slept in the tend, we have been killed by mosquitos!!! I guess that is also because of those reasons that such experience is now an amazing experience!

You gotta do this!!! Is something that will never forget!!

(check other pics in the next tips)

The area is renowned for its profuse plant and animal populations and although these may difficult to spot, they include the Harpy Eagle, the prehistoric looking Hoatzin, a variety of wading birds, over 32 species of parrots, 4 species of primates, a variety of frogs, and butterflies, tapir, deer, peccary, jaguars, ocelots and playful River Otters who live in the area’s oxbow lakes.

Take a 3-wheeler moter car from your hotel to the market. See how the locals copnduct their business and daily life.