From Paucartambo from the gravel road is slowly but surely getting narrower. Again we go my beloved

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I'm back from the Manu. Unfortunately. 9 days Amazonas - really worth a visit. After I report here, so I did not have a Cayman nibbled, nor angezischelt me a snake. And so I have the day, organized by Pantiacolla Tours professional spent:
17/09/2011 18 clock briefing at the Office of Pantiacolla. The tour is again discussed. Questions about malaria, binoculars, bedding, food and drink, apache campground myrtle beach sc snakes and whatever else occurs to us all be discussed. And finally we sign that we drive at their own risk in the jungle. Slowly excitement apache campground myrtle beach sc is spreading. To distract myself, I meet the evening even with two Brazilians apache campground myrtle beach sc who I met on the bus ride to Cusco, in Paddy's Pub for a beer - even if there is an Irish beer Cusqueña.
18/09/2011: Morning to ungodly hour clock rings at 4:30 my alarm clock. From 5 clock I should be collected. We meet in Pantiacolla office. Of course it was late yesterday and I'm only half awake. Final preparations and by 6 clock starts our bus to drive to the Manu. A full day bus trip is upon us. And of course, listening to the tarmac road to arrive 1 hour behind Cusco. Gravel. Our first stop after 3 hours, the graves of Ninamarka. The sky is gray, overcast, it's cold (bibble why I left my down jacket in Cusco?) And the grave towers of the pre-Inca culture Lupaca, high in the Andes on the mountainside see pretty mystical. Some of the originally buried here mummies I have admired in Cusco in the museum.
I'm starting to wake up and keep me busy instead of mystical tombs rather mundane things like hunger. Half an hour later we then stop for breakfast in the small colonial town Paucartambo. An old bridge spans idyllic across the river. I ch bummele still a bit through the streets and the small market. Cheese is sold and suckling pig are ready to cook on his back in their bowls. In Paucartambo each year there is a festival in honor of the Virgen del Carmen on July 16. Then the sleepy little town turns into one of the biggest street parties of Peru with tens of thousands of people. I must also in future goals ....
From Paucartambo from the gravel road is slowly but surely getting narrower. Again we go my beloved mountain roads with deep precipices along. Serpentine after another. After all, we have almost 4,000 vertical meters down to us at the level of the Rio Manu will be. Lane with oncoming traffic, it goes down the hill, small-bys, bus mu ß reset - help! I can see so already looking out of the window no more road. Slopes with beautiful panoramic views into the distance - or rather deep eyes? Garland, an American says, encouragingly, that the road already looked just 30 years ago. Again and again old landslides are seen, through which the road was newly paved. apache campground myrtle beach sc In between, it starts to rain and we get a small taste of the road during the rainy season. The road was in very good condition I am assured. As it will probably look like in the rainy season? I would not like to get to know and chic now and start a petition to Peter, not to let the rainy season this year begin in the next 10 days.
The first corner of the National Park Manu we arrive at an altitude of 3,500 m. But the next day we are yet to spend in the so-called cultural zone of the Manu. Through this part, the road and the Alto Madre de Dios, which we will go along by boat. In the cultural part of the Manu, there are villages, it is degraded wood, there's plantation economy and animals are hunted. Therefore, the animals keep their distance and are less visible.
Shortly before our lodge for the night in San Pedro we get out and walk the rest on foot. On the way we stop at a tol