Porto Maldonado

Our bus reached Porto Maldonado about 45 min before time. We reached at 6:15 am and waited at the bus stop for our pickup to arrive. Porto Maldonado is the gateway to the amazonas in this region of Peru, much as Rurrenabaque was in Bolivia.
We were driven to the office of the Chuncho Lodge (our tour operator). We freshened up there and also had our breakfast before beginning the journey into the forest.
The 1st 48 kms of the route was on the pan oceanic highway that connects the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil to the Pacific ocean in Peru.
The next 18 kms after a left turn into the amazon jungle was a dirt road with mud and a lot of water at some of the places. It was a bumpy 45 min ride.Read more