Puerto Maldonado

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Puerto Maldonado is the main city of the Departemant of Madre de Dios, Peru. The city itself has not too many tourist attractions, but it is the starting point for jungle trips.

Contents 1 Get in 2 Get around 3 See 4 Do 4.1 Jungle tours 4.1.1 Local guides 5 Buy 6 Eat 7 Drink 8 Sleep 8.1 Budget 9 Get out

Get in

Get around

See

Do

Jungle tours

The relatively close Tambopata reserve park is famous for its great biodiversity but not even cheap to visit since you need a permit to enter. If you just want to see how jungle looks, you can do that outside the park much cheaper.

Many jungle lodges in the surrounding area offer complete tour programs.

For small groups that like to do an individual jungle tour, it may be a good idea to contact local guides that do not work with lodges. This is a less expensive alternative to the organized tours offered by lodges.

Local guides

• Arturo Balarezo works as a local jungle guide. He has grown up in this area and knows a lot about animals, plants and life in the jungle. Besides Spanish, he speaks reasonable English and some Hebrew. His big goal are individually shaped tours for small groups (2-6 persons) that give you a very good feeling how life in the jungle looks like. Don't expect a fully organized trip (for that, go to a lodge) and be prepared to some improvisation.

Address: (He lives in the old city on the river banks, where streets have neither names nor house numbers.) Following his advertising flyer, the address is: Prolungation Av. Cajamarca, baja el hospital, en frente de Pro Naturaleza (engl.: Prolongation of Av. Cajamarka, below the hospital, opposite Pro Naturaleza)

Contact: Ask in a small travel agency called Luly Tours, Av. Leon Velarde 620 (the main street), phone 572431 or in the Hotel Wilson.

Costs: 100 Soles (30 US$) per person and day, all inclusive.

• and others

Buy

Eat

• Chez Maggy, in the main Plaza.

Drink

Sleep

Budget

• Hotel Wilson, Between 4 an 6 US$, with or without private bath, safe and clean.

• Hotel Bahia, Between 4 an 6 US$, with or without private bath, some rooms are rather noisy.

Get out

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