Puerto Maldonado - Cayman Lodge

The last stage of our 'Peru Encompassed' tour took us to the jungle - a very short but most impressive final leg of our splendid Peru tour.
Cayman Lodge, situated in the Tambopata Nature Reserve near the Bolivian border,and on the shore of a tributary to the Amazon ( 200km further up this river you would still find tribes untouched by civilization...) fully deserves its name, as on our night boat trip, we discovered a whole family of caymans on the shore😊
Other highlights included a night trail where we discovered all kinds of creepy crawlies - and I got a nice shot of a tarantula (see pics)!
The 5-hour day trip (starting at 6:30 - but we got used to early hours on this trip😏) with our experienced guide gave us insights into the typical features and uses of trees and plants (the walking tree, Parapara etc.) and included a boat trip where we spotted a baby anaconda - we were actually quite lucky with the numbers of live creatures we came to see...Read more