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Peru's Amazing Amazonica: Nature Travelers Find Comforts in Rain-Forest Cabins |
| Section: LIFE / TRAVEL |
| Author: Richard Slusser |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 1,861 Words, 11,418 Characters |
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Long, narrow and partly covered outboard boats bring visitors, baggage and supplies from this river city and regional capital to the jungle cabins and suites of Reserva Amazonica. The river--the Madre de Dios, or Mother of God--is the road.
For 45 minutes on a brilliant day, we putter about nine miles down the fast-moving, at times churning, brown river. This is excitement, the thrill of being in an unfamiliar place far from home and urban spaces--of being on a big river far away from anywhere.
There is wonder in being here under a big blue sky with a sea of jolly clouds floating overhead. The bottoms of the clouds are flat, like giant puffs of meringue placed over a jungle pie to float, perhaps, over the Andes and other nations and over oceans.
Puerto Maldonado is the drop-off po...
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... damaged and trash was not being disposed of with regard to the environment.
Machu Picchu, like many other sites in Peru created by nature or humans, brings a sense of wonder.
Each passenger on flights over the Andes from the coast to the Amazonian rain forest should be so lucky to sit by a window. Up close, the sights are even more amazing.
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