Keeping clear of the shallows
on the river
Boca Manú town
Public facilities at Boca Manú
All important - they served beer!
Resting before continuing on to
Manú
Liza at the river
Belly up to the bar, at the Manú
Wildlife Center
Breakfast in the blind at the
parrot/macaw clay lick
The blind...
...and the clay lick, minus the
birds
Dueling boats on the river
Peruvian flag at the boat
dock at the Manú Wildlife
Center
Our room, complete with
(little-needed) mosquito netting
Liza on the porch
No hammock, but this will do!
Frida, an emperor tamarin who
earlier decided Liza's earrings
were food (while still in her ears)
Happy birders (Jeff, Robert,
Alan, guide Renzo, and Angelo)
in a canopy tower
It was a long way up...
...and even farther down :-)
Birding on an oxbow lake
Also known as a Peruvian
party barge...?
Another canopy tower,
this one a little sturdier
View from the top
Ready for the Ornate
Hawk-Eagle to fly by!
Angelo and Jeff sheltered within
the buttressed roots of a Ceiba
tree
Boat dock on the oxbow
lake (there were bats inside)
Moonrise...Madre de Dios
Placer mining for gold on the
river bank
Safety first! Wear your
chaleco de salvavidas!
It looks like a wreck but actually
the boat was simply docked
The town of Labarinto, where
the gold miners can sell whatever
they find, drink themselves silly...
Puerto Maldonado...don't knock
it, the hotel had wireless
internet!
Palm oasis outside Puerto
Maldonado
View of the Andes from the
airplane flying from Puerto
Maldonado to Cusco