Cusco, Peru
We left Amazonas Lodge this morning. Even though the weather was much better than when we arrived, the two-hour boat trip down river and our van transport back to Puerto Maldonado seemed even longer than the trip to the lodge a few days ago. Plus this time I realized that some of the primitive open air, one-room buildings on dirt lots we passed in route to the river were not abandoned huts but are actual homes to families. In a land where there are so many nat...