Upon our arrival to the jungle in Puerto Maldonado, we were greeted by a blast of well oxygenated hot air, a standing wall of humidity, and no one holding the sign with our names on it like we had expected. Meanwhile, Lisa's hair began changing right before our eyes like a fresh flower you just put into the microwave. Weird! Eventually, we found our bilingual guide and began the two and half hour journey up the Tambopata River to the jungle community of Infierno...Hell in Spanish. It's literally hot as hell here and our lodging has no electricity. Simply put, there will not even be a fan to keep cool. There will also be no use of electrical hair fixing devices. Oddly, the shower water was close to freezing though so there was no danger of overheating if you could muster up the courage to jump in. I expected our trip to the jungle to be educational and Puerto Maldonado did not disappoint! Howler Monkeys, parrots, caymans, falcons, piranhas, lots of strange birds, medicinal trees and plants....pretty cool stuff. But Howler Monkeys definitely win the award as one of nature's odder creations. These things only weigh up to about 10kg (22 pounds) but their scream carries through the forest for hundreds of meters. In the morning, they start before sunrise and the noise is downright intimidating. Seriously, it sounded like Satan himself was just off in the distance bearing down on our souls with a pack of evil minions from the Jurassic period! Truly wild! But the best things in life are free and that came in the form of a tour to the medicinal garden where a Shaman, or medicine man, explained his potions and then let us line up for a complimentary sample. We enjoyed a Jagermeister flavored potion call Para Para that is supposedly nature's very own Viagra. He carefully explained that you only have to drink it twice a day for 3 months, avoid eating papayas, and walk backwards on Tuesdays (I made that one up) and the stuff is guaranteed to kick into gear. Either that or after 3 months, hopefully, someone might tell you about beer, which has been helping ugly people have more sex for centuries and is already well documented. Well, from here we go back to Lima to continue our pilgrimage to find Peru's best pisco sour and enjoy the big city with all it's modern conveniences. It was great having more visitors!