We arrived in Puerto Maldonado in the pouring rain. There were a few "amusement-park" like drops on the plane as we were coming through the clouds. We were told that it had been sunny yesterday and just started raining about an hour before our arrival. Our luggage was stored and we took what we would need for two days.
The group loaded into two canoes for a 75 minute boat ride to the east of Puerto Maldonado to our lodges. The rivers are quite wide, even at this point of the headwaters of the Amazon. We are within a few hours boat ride of the Bolivia border.
It was starting to get dark by the time we arrived, but we went for a short tour of the botanical gardens. It had stopped raining by this time, At 7:00 pm we had a nice buffet supper. At 8:00 we went back into two smaller canoes to search for Cayman, small alligators. Each group got to see 3 or 4 even though the waters are too high for optimum Cayman spotting. It was very relaxing when they turned off the engines and we silently floated with current. Then it was bed time as we had a 5 am wake up call for our walk in the morning.
The lights are run for only a few hours a day as they are power by generator. There is no Internet so I will have to post these blogs at a later time. The lights do go out, exactly at 10:00 pm.
Buenos Notches.
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