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Tambopata Research Center

Foz do Iguaçu

Our Trip

Our trip to South America lasted 1 month and took us through Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. This is quite short compared to the trips of some of the people we met, who had been traveling for months.. 

Our first stop was Lima, Peru where we stayed for just a few hours in the airport. We took a connecting flight to Cuzco, the ancient capital of the Incas. We stayed there for a few days to get use to the altitude and until Andreas recovered from "soroche" which is the altitude sickness. (The best treatment for soroche, is drinking coca tea !!).  During our stay at Cuzco we made arrangements for the Inca Trail, a 4 day walk through the high mountains of the Andes for the ancient lost city of Machu Picchu.  After the Inca Trail, we rested for 1 day and then took a flight to Puerto Maldonado, which is the nearest airport to the Posada Amazonas Lodge and the Tambopata Research Center.  We took a 2 hr boat trip in the Tambopata River to Posada Amazonas and stayed there for 2 days.  We then took another, 4 hr boat trip to the Tambobata Research Center (TRC) where we stayed for 4 days. TRC is a research center studying the wildlife of the Amazon jungle and especially the Macaws.  After the jungle experience, we returned back to Puerto Maldonado by boat and took the return flight to Cusco.

The next day we took a scenic train ride from Cuzco to Puno, near Lake Titikaka, which is located in the borders of Peru and Bolivia.  We took a bus to cross the border to Bolivia, to end up in the city with the highest airport in the world, La Paz. We stayed in La Paz for 3 days and then took a flight to Sao Paolo, Brazil and stayed there for one night.  The next day we took an internal flight to Foz do Iguaçu, in the South Eastern part of Brazil.  We left Foz after 2 days and flew to Rio De Janeiro where we stayed for 5 days before flying back to New York.

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