Day 5 Today we went off on another early morning walk back along the same track towards Salvador lake and then onwards for a further 8 km to Otorongo lake to an observation tower to watch the giant otters. Unfortunatley this was pretty uneventful appart from the bizarre and rare Harlequin beetle that we saw. Oh well it was still the jungle. After lunch we headed back again to Salvador Lake on an otter hunt. Noe and Oliver paddled us along the lake were we...

Day 4 Again we rose at 5:15am tanks to Noe our alarm clock, apparently to avoid the bugs, however Claire woke up to find she had been eaten alive during the night, literally hundreds of bites, while Ian had only a few, we are starting to think she had anti-deet in her blood. We packed the boat quickly and headed off with breakfast on the move. We then registered at the rangers headquarters as we were entering the reserved zone, which is restricted (they even wa...

Day 3 We were woken early again and our group (us & Vincent Roberto & Nicholas) grabbed our canopy equipment for a hard and humid hike to the first platform. The first platform didnt seem too high until we stood with all our equipment on and looked down to the second platform, I (Claire) freaked out a bit but the really nice Bolivian guide managed to talk me into it. After that it was great but we had to remember to look around as the views were amazing. At the...

Day 2 At 4.45 in the AM! We were woken up to see the mating dance of the c*** of the rocks, on a purpose built platform, over the cliff. This was named by a famous English bloke who owns the biggest tour company in the jungle, he's a bird specialist, and typically English it was locked when we arrived.... They were funny bright red headed pigeon looking things, making really bizarre dances and cackling noises to each other. At this point we (and most of the ...

Day 1 We left our hostel at the crack of dawn to meet up with our new comrades for the long trip over the Andes into the Manu Reserve which is part of the Amazon basin. It had been lashing it down with rain ever since the sun festival and we were told that there was freak weather at eth moment. When we saw the beast that was to take us there we weren't too concerned (see photos). All was fine until we started to climb up into the Andes when it started to get ...