Puerto Maldonado, a gateway to the Amazon rainforest in Peru. This was another amazing experience. Don't always trust your guidebook, we found out about this and figured out our own way to get there but talking with locals and I'm so glad we did.
Mototaxi ride from the bus station into the center
We rented a scooter to go check out some of the locally owned jungle reserves outside of the city
Taken shortly before we crashed the scooter. Oops.
Rather than sign up for an overpriced guided rainforest tour, we walked down to the dock and asked a local fisherman if he could take us in his fishing boat. What a good deal!
Notice the bandaged wound from the scooter accident
Eddie, our fisherman guide, brought us the cutest little bananas ever from the local market
The muddy banks of the Madre Rios, a branch of the Amazon
These pink tree roots are used for medicinal purposes when boiled in tea
Canopy Bridge up into the trees
Up above the canopy
The highest treehouse I've ever been in
Huge beetle on our guide's arm
A tapir in captivity
A cayman (alligator) with SEVEN babies! Our guide said he'd never seen this in all of his years on the river.
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