Our bodies aren't in shock, but they should be as we have just a few hours ago left 12,000-foot mountain climes and now we are in humid and hot weather.
As has been the standard on this Adventure, we have a guide, Pepe; our boat captain Pepe Sr.; and assistant Juan aka Jack. We cruise five hours down the Madre de Dios to the Heath River Lodge; it is almost dark when we arrive. The Lodge quite the pretty picture, all lit with only candles.
Tonight's dinner is catfish with rice and veggies (no more potatoes). Cheesecake for dessert. Rico! (''yummy'' a new word I learned from my buddy Carlos Antony :-)
Two 65-year-olds looking for Adventure! in Peru
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- Carol Thuerbach
- Active & Extreme, Biking, Camping, Community Stay, Cultural Immersion, Fishing, History, Light Hiking, Luxury & Indulgence, Multisport, Peru, Spa & Relaxing, Traveler Stories, Whitewater Rafting, Wildlife Watching
- Next stop: LIMA!
- We're in Starting Gate . . . and we're off!
- Cusco on Palm Sunday
- Rafting the Urubama River
- Biking at 12,000 + feet
- Hiking Tres Cruses
- Down, down, down we go . . .
- Machu Picchu
- On the way to Puno and Lake Titicaca
- Easter Sunday on Uros Islands, kayaking, Isla Tikonata
- Sailing to Amantani
- Taquile and back to Puno
- In to the jungle!
- Bird Watching and Jungle Walking
- Good-bye to Heath River and Hello to Sandoval Lake Lodge
- The Giant Otters of Sandoval Lake
- May Day! May Day! May Day! We have to leave!
