Manu The Amazon Jungle

26th Nov - 2nd Dec - Days 46 - 54

So here´s the link to our 8 day jungle itinery. happy reading for all the details ! if not then enjoy this short overview of our time in the Amazon.

http://www.amazontrailsperu.com/en/manu01-b.html#d8

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After getting an 11 hour bus ride to the Amazon river side we started our adventure. Our guide was Carlos, a man who had grown up in the jungle until he was 16, then did his degree in Biology and became a jungle guide. very smart ! Our chef was a cheeky man called Donald. He cooked amazing food and even produced a cake whilst in the jungle, very skilled. 

The first half of our journey was spent on a boat getting to our first lodge. Along the way we all kept an eye out for the wild life.  we were really lucky with the weather, and mostly had great sun shine. The jungle is a very hummid place, and as there´s so much oxygen here majority of the wild life grows to giant proportions.

Most of our time was spent getting up really early (4am) to drive down river, getting to view points or trekking through the jungle. along the way we had many stops to learn about the medicinal uses of the trees and plants, or to see the animals.

Visiting the clay lick was beautiful. with a chance to see many types of parrots, from a fantasticly made view point. We also got the chance to get on board a couple or rafts at various points, to quietly move across lakes and get close to giant river otters, caimans and prehistoric birds.




One night we trekked deep into the jungle to sleep on an open platform, to see wild Tapirs. a little scary as there where vampire bats about, and the the rest ! Mosquito nets are certaintly your best friend in an eco system like this!   

One of my favorite outtings, was to go to the top of one of the oldest trees in the world. they can only guess that it´s over 600 years old, reaching great hights, way above the canopy top. finding a rare old owl asleep at the top of this wise old tree was 

very special.

One evening we stayed at a lodge Where we met two guys working for the National History Museum. They were collecting new species of insects for the museums collection. That eveing they found a rare snake that we got to get really close to. Later one we witnessed the biggest storm ever. it shook the walls of our cabin, and I had to bunk up with Leroy due to rain falling on my bed.











The final day, heading back throguh the Andes we stopped off to see the cock of the rock, there national bird. once we saw a few and had our lunch on the side of the road with some monkeys we went back to Cusco.

So that´s the overview of our time in the jungle, and now here´s a list of all the animals we saw for you to google away at. we managed to capture pretty much everything but i think the blog would crash if we tried to upload them all here. keep an eye out on Leroy´s facebook for all the pics.

Here's a list of everything we saw in 8 days, so you get the idea of how much we saw.

Birds

Jabiru

Muscovy Duck

Speckled Chachalaca

Razor Billed Curassow

Neotropic Conmorant

Anhinga

Cocoi Heron - Agami Heron - Fasciated Tiger Heron - Straited Heron - Black Crowned Night Heron

Horned Screamer

Black Vulture - Great Yellow Headed Vulture - Turky Vulture

Plumbeous Kite

Black Collared Hawk - Great Black Hawk - Road Side Hawk

Pale Winged Trumpeter

Sunbittern

Azure Gallnule

Purple Juvinile Gallinule

Common Moorhen

Wattled Jacana

Spotted Sandpiper

Large Billed Tern

Ruddy Pigeon

Blue Ground Dove

Roseate Spoon Bill

Great Egret - Catle Egret - Snowy Egret

Limpkin   

Blue&Yellow Macaw - Scarlet Macaw - Red&Green Macaw - Chestnut Fronted Macaw

Dusky Headed Parakeet

Orange Cheeked Parrot - Blue  Headed Parrot - Yellow Crowned Parrot - Mealy Parrot

Squirrel Cukoo

Greater Ani - Smoothed Bill Ani

Hoatzin (Prehistoric Bird)

Great Potto

Festive Coquette - Rufous Crested Coquette

Blue Crowned Tragon

Wire Crested Thorntail

Long Tailed Hermit Humming Bird - Fork Tailed Wood Nymph - Violet Headed Huming Bird 

Ringed King Fisher - Amazon King Fisher

Blueish Fronted Jacamar

Black Fronted Nunbird

Andean Flicker

Lesser Kiskdee - Great Kiskadee

Social Flycatecher

Tropical King Bird

Black Tailed Tityra

White Banded Swallow - Bank Swallow - Swallow Wing

Black Capped Donacobius

Black Billed Trush - White Necked Trush

Magpie Tanager - Silver Beaked Tanger - Blue Grey Tanager

Red Capped Cardinal

Russet Backed Orpendola

Yellow Rumped Cacique

Giant Cow Bird

Solitary Black Cacique

Troupial

Pale Eyed Blackbird

Blue Throated Piping-guan

Toucan

BIRD WATCH EAT YOUR HEART OUT !!!!!

Mammals

Long Nosed Bat - Vampire Bat 

Squirral Monkey

Saddled Backed Tamarin Monkey

Brown Cappachin Monkey

Noisy Night Monkey

Monk Saki Monkey

Red Holwer Monkey

Spider Monkey

Dusky Titi Monkey

Giant River Otter´s

Capibara

SouthernTamandua

Amazon Dwarf Squirral

Ginger Varigated Squiral

Tapir

Osolot (Foot Print !)

Long Furred Wolly Mouse

Insects

Scorpion Spider

Sicada

Wolf Spider (poisonous)

Orbit Spider

Leaf Mimickimg Katydid

Grass Hoppers

Horn Beatle

Lelius Urania Moth

Isula Ants - Black Arm (Carnivourious) - Red Army - Leaf Cutter - Bulet (Dangerious)

Termites

Butterfly´s - Massive Blue One - Many Orange Ones - 89 Butterfly - Yellow - Rainbow

Frogs

Amazon Rocket 

Ameerga Hahneli (Poisonious)

Ameerega Trivittata (Poisonious)

Reptiles

Black Caimen

Amazon Racing Lizard

Yellow Spotted Turtle

Forset Whip Tail

Green Boidae Cainus

Small Green Vipor

Boa Esmerelda


Trees


Sattuemto - Heals a bad stomach
Palosomto - Heals a bad stomach, also used as punishment as red fire ants live on it.
Big Shebai - spiky tree - the spines are used by native people to hunt animals 
Pijuayo - over 600 years old, very large and tall
Ceiba Perntanclea - good to make fire, string like bark
Copaiba - heals parasites 
Caimen tree - expensive wood to make furniture (looks like crocodile skin)
Capirona - sheds its bark 3 times a month so it can't rot of be homed in by bugs. very green and solid
Topa - Pyramid tree - used to make roof tops for the native people.