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So there were.... and then the bus broke down. We were going up a hill, and ... "Bang! put put put ... nothing". This is a pic of everyone standing around. We stood around like this for six more hours until Kathleen and I finally paid 17 S/. to get on another bus.Here we are in Puerto Maldonado, the Jungle, Peru. It took us 33 hours to get from Cuzco where the air is cold and thin, to this place where we’re 200m above sea level and the humidity is at least 100 percent. The bus from Cuzco left at 3pm on Saturday and was supposed to take 27 hours. Mike had a comical lack of leg room. <br />

Jungle Safari

GringoAndGringa
2006-02-18 14:59:52

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So there were.... and then the bus broke down. We were going up a hill, and ... "Bang! put put put ... nothing". This is a pic of everyone standing around. We stood around like this for six more hours until Kathleen and I finally paid 17 S/. to get on another bus.Here we are in Puerto Maldonado, the Jungle, Peru. It took us 33 hours to get from Cuzco where the air is cold and thin, to this place where we’re 200m above sea level and the humidity is at least 100 percent. The bus from Cuzco left at 3pm on Saturday and was supposed to take 27 hours. Mike had a comical lack of leg room.

The lady sitting behind me was extremely drunk and also very upset and got in a shouting match with some guy trying to sell motivational pamphlets. She proceeded to sing out loud and wave her arms out the window pretty much the whole way. She hit us on the head several times while she was flailing, and was kicked off briefly but returned much to our chagrin.

Also along for the ride was a cage full of budgies, some turkeys, some chickens and two rabbits, although only the budgies got to ride with the passengers. The first half of the ride was terrifying, especially for me since I had the window seat. There were lots of narrow roads and cliffs. We actually passed a truck that had gone over the edge and dumped all its ..

Notice that it isn't driving much and isn't really much of a shaft anymore. Folks, remember to gear-down when you go up hills.cargo on the way down. Nice mountain views though. After it got dark, they started playing weird music videos.

We were woken up at about 4am by some really bumpy roads, and found that we were in the jungle and going along a narrow road. The road was occasionally quite washed-out, and had a rather large river under it. We didn’t sleep much after that, what with the moon lighting up the raging rapids practically right under us.

The next day we drove through several dozen river beds ...