South America Day 10: Amazon to Cusco

December 2011

We rose early again to take a trip up the "tower" to see the forest canopy, awesome view.

We had breakfast, packed and then caught the boat back down the river to the town to catch our plane.

Surprise, surprise the plane was delayed again, so we didn't get back to Cusco to late afternoon.

We walked around the main square again and intended on checking out the famous last supper picture in the main cathedral (where the meal is guinea pig), but there was no way we were going to pay $US15 each to do so (a decision I regretted until we got to Arequipa and there was a similar painting and we could see it for free).

That night we headed out to dinner at Fallen Angel. This boutique restaurant also has accommodation attached and we were able to check out some of the very funky rooms.

Dinner was fabulous, and we enjoyed the Peruvian raw fish for entree, I had the Andean cheese tenderloin with potato cake and vege stack (below), while DH had the pork and potato cake.

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Corihuasi

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Fallen Angel

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Amazon Canopy tour

Main square, Cusco

South America Day 9: Amazon, Peru

December 2011

We woke up early to rain (considering we were in a rainforest it shouldn't have been too surprising..).

We had breakfast and the boarded the boat to head to the river. After a quick walk through the forest we boarded another boat on the Chimbadar Lake to do some wildlife spotting and piranha fishing (catch and release only). We saw the giant river otter, which is quite rare, the Hoatzin or stinky bird, and DH nearly caught a piranha.

On the way back through the forest to the river we spotted some Saddleback Tamarins and other monkeys.

Once back in the lodge we had a quick snack and spotted some Brown Agouti's.

We then walked down to the clay licks do see the Macaws. We weren't expecting much because of the season, but it was phenomenal.

After lunch we took the boat back down the river to the botanical gardens and to visit the local shaman, trying one or two of the herbal potions.

Once back at the lodge we had another buffet dinner, before enjoying a night walk to check out all the critters.

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Posada Amazonas Lodge

South America Day 8: Cusco to the Amazon

December 2011

Something we quickly learnt in South America is plane's rarely leave on schedule. We were delayed for four hours at Cusco airport due to poor weather somewhere, but finally caught our 40 min flight to Puerto Maldonodo in the Amazon.

We met our guide and boarded the minibus to the Rainforest Expedition office before re boarding the bus and heading to the river to catch our boat down the Amazon.

We enjoyed a rice lunch on board and along the way spotted a Capabara, and other wildlife on the 1.5 hour boat trip.

We arrived at Posada Lodge around 6 pm and checked into our surprisingly luxury rooms (not what we expected for the middle of the Amazon!). The rooms are all open, with no windows, just a open wall and only curtains for the front door. Dinner was a buffet in the large dining hall.

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Posada Amazonas Lodge