The Jungle
After a day in Cuzco to recover from the bad pizza, I ventured to Puerto Maldonado in the Amazon basin. This city is an old rubber manufacturing center. Everyone there rides on motorcycles and auto-rickshaws, just like in India. And guess what one of the leading brands is: Bajaj.
On the way to the lodge we took a boat and got to see caymans, macaus, and capybaras along the river. The next day we went for a nature walk through the jungle, getting up at 5 am. I slept OK, but I kept thinking that a peckery (a small pig-boar like creature) was outside the bungalow. It turns out it was just the guy in the room next to mine snoring.
Wait, I need to be honest here; it was actually a woman. I just couldn´t believe a woman could sound like that.
During the nature walk we came across some pretty cool plants and insects. One insect is the leaf-cutter ant. These little guys work hard like all ants, but carry pieces of tree leaves to their colonies for food. They create large avenues on the trails and go for many meters. Looking at them from above reminded me of people in Manhattan.
Another cool phenomenon involves the flora of the jungle. One tree, a type of fig, likes to wrap itself around another vibrant tree and suck the life out of it until completely takes it over. They call it a strangler fig. They should nickname it the wife. (Oh, snap!)
On the way to the lodge we took a boat and got to see caymans, macaus, and capybaras along the river. The next day we went for a nature walk through the jungle, getting up at 5 am. I slept OK, but I kept thinking that a peckery (a small pig-boar like creature) was outside the bungalow. It turns out it was just the guy in the room next to mine snoring.
Wait, I need to be honest here; it was actually a woman. I just couldn´t believe a woman could sound like that.
During the nature walk we came across some pretty cool plants and insects. One insect is the leaf-cutter ant. These little guys work hard like all ants, but carry pieces of tree leaves to their colonies for food. They create large avenues on the trails and go for many meters. Looking at them from above reminded me of people in Manhattan.
Another cool phenomenon involves the flora of the jungle. One tree, a type of fig, likes to wrap itself around another vibrant tree and suck the life out of it until completely takes it over. They call it a strangler fig. They should nickname it the wife. (Oh, snap!)
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