Amazon - Otorongo

Otogongo Expeditions Lodge was our destination on the Amazon. Here is a link to their site. Check it out. Tells all about where we stayed, interesting posts about the Amazon and with much better pictures. otorongoexpeditions (Otorongo is the jungle name in Peru for jaguar. It is an Indian word that means beast.)

There actually is a jaguar around that they catch on a camera from time to time at night.  Maybe it's fortunate we didn't see it.

This is the grounds around the resort. They refer it as the "garden" since is cleared and maintained so you walk around. Outside this little area, it really is the deep dark jungle. The large building is the kitchen and dining room.

This is the path we took to get to our accommodation.

The resort has a main lodge with several small rooms that share a common bath, etc. Fortunately, we did not stay there, but were able to get in the "honey moon" lodge, a separate, stand-alone lodge on the edge of the resort. Very quiet in the sense that you didn't hear any other guests, but with all the animals, bugs, birds, trees, rain and wind the Amazon is not really a quiet place.

Evie resting in the "day room" in our lodge. (If you look closely at Evie you will see that she is sweaty and exhausted from one of our adventures.)  I particularly enjoyed the hammock.  (Please note that Mike did not get nearly as sweaty and exhausted as Evie did.)

The bedroom with the mosquito netting. Services are very basic. A nice bathroom but no hot water. There is no electricity, but with solar panels and batteries there is enough power for a few LED lights and a place to recharge cell phones. 

We ate together in this common dining room. The food was very good, although you ate whatever they cooked that day. It wasn't a restaurant where you order from a menu. Most of the food, chicken, fish, fruits and vegetables were local, fresh and very good. (Sorry, I was too busy eating to think to take a picture of the food)

Some of our friends at the lodge.

 At one time there were three or four macaws around quarreling among the themselves until the lodge owner finally came out to bring some order.

I saw two of these Macaws flying just above me, with their wings fully spread. It was one of the most colorful, beautiful things I've ever seen, although on the ground around the lodge they can be a little annoying after awhile.

This duck was fairly protective of her ducklings and with good reason. There are lots of things in the jungle for baby ducks and their mother to be worried about.

Lodge fashion. We wore these rubber boots everywhere. Thinking about what there is in the jungle, water, mud, snakes, ants, bugs, poison frogs, etc., this is the footwear of choice.