Up at 5.30 to leave by six to avoid the strike. Means we will be waiting at the airport for 6 hours for our 20 min flight to Cuzco. Boo. I will spend the time thinking about the piranha I caught. Beat that one Noni!!

So we left the Amazon at 6.45 this morning and made it back into peurto maldenardo without any hassles by 8. Our flight left at two so we waited for 3 hour at the jungle lodge office... Watching a DVD on this guy that sounded like bear grylls but wasn't... And making endless cups of tea. We walked up to the corner store and basically bought the place out (they sold beer too!). Finally we drove to the airport and checked in before having lunch. We then waited and ...

Day 2 of the amazon. We were going to get up at four to get to the lake in time for sunrise, but it was pouring with rain when our alarms went off so we got to go back to sleep. Apparently all the wildlife seeks refuge from the rain as well so there was not much point in going out. Makes sense I guess. So we got up for a 7:30 breakfast before heading out to see the local shaman. He gave us a tour of the botanical gardens and showed us all the local remedies, inc...

I got an hour if sleep last night. One hour. I think it's still the jetlag but I just can't sleep!! Got a wake up call at 2:30am anyhow, so packed out stuff and headed out to the airport for our flight to peurto maldenardo, gateway to the amazon. I slept a bit on the plane. We had an hour flight followed by another 20 minute flight. It was pouring when we got in and so we rushed all of the luggage onto the bus and headed to the office of our rainforest tour guid...

This morning was tough. Hangover central. In any case I was out in the lobby by 10 and happened to run in to Bianca, who will be my room mate for the tour. She was about to head to miraflores as I was so we jumped in a cab together and made the trip. We spent the morning walking along the boardwalk (I wanted to go paragliding but it was too foggy :( ) and checking out the parks. We stopped for lunch at a local cafe, where I ordered ceverche (no idea on the spelli...