The Amazon

Puerto Maldonado Airport	Bus to Infierno	Tambopata River Port	Boats on the Tambopata
Lunch served in a banana-type leaf	Definitely beat cuy (guinea pig!)	45 minute ride to Posadas Amazonas	Mercury mining	Mercury mining
Fruit boat	Posadas Amazonas Lodge	Posadas Amazonas Lodge	Posadas Amazonas Lodge	Posadas Amazonas Lodge
Posadas Amazonas Lodge	Posadas Amazonas Lodge	only source of light	Posadas Amazonas Lodge	Posadas Amazonas Lodge
entrance to guest room	open to the Jungle	jungle bathroom	COLD showers ROCK!	cool mosquito nets
Our guide, Luis		Walking Palm Tree	Red-green macaw	Belly tree
termite thingy	T's Brazil nuts	showing off	3 Brazil nuts - each cracked open differently - monkey, man, termite	30 mter canopy tower
overlooking the Tambopata River	Canopy Tower	Jungle Canopy	T	Termite mound
	The Blond Bronco is amped to be up at 4am to birdwatch!	The Amazon at Dawn	The Amazon at Dawn	The Amazon at Dawn
The Amazon at Dawn	Luis drives the catamaran on Tres Chimbadas Oxbow Lake	Elder	Rufescent Tiger Heron	Rufescent Tiger Heron
the catamaran leaked on this lake full of piranha and anaconda	Fishing for Piranha	Fishing for Piranha	Fishing for Piranha	Piranha!
Piranha!	Garlic tree	Rubber tree		Translucent butterfly
Tarantula hole				Jungle
Jungle	Monkey	Monkey		Shaman of Centro Nape
Manuel and kitty cat	Ayahuasca		Luis, T, and Elder	Para para = viagra
	T in front of he Shaman's lab	enjoying a little para para	The Shaman and his "lab"	The Lab
Elder & Luis completing another day in the Jungle	Dusk on the Tambopata	Iowa students	Dusk on the Tambopata	T, Annie, Leah, and TJ