THE JUNGLE

Well, it was not exactly the Amazon River but it was a tributary in the Amazon jungle.  We flew to Puerto Maldonado and took a four hour "canoe" trip up the Rio Madre de Dios to the Rio Tambopata arriving at the lodge at dusk .  After dinner we took our first walk listening to the music of the night creatures and inhaling the fragrance of jungle flora.  The group was up early in the morning for a trip further up the river and a trek through the wildest jungle .   In the afternoon Donna and Norbert visited a true jungle farm .  The main crops were bananas and corn, but they did not seem to be planted in any orderly fashion, but placed at random at the farmer's whim.