The Inca Jungle Trek sounded appealing because it starts with a four-hour mountain bike ride from Alfamayo, somewhere in the mid-3,000 meters elevation range, down about 1,500 meters elevation over 80 kilometers to Santa Maria, a small town in what they call the high jungle.
This trek also appealed because we stayed in hostels three nights and the price was half what others pay to sleep in tents.
The second day was up and down hill and dale, and mountain and higher mountain, on tiny little paths perched on the closest thing to a cliff there is. Long day of walking past fruit trees -- banana, mango, papaya, aloe vera plants and all kinds of birds and lizards.
The jungle in a jungle home converted to tour rest spot was amazing. These folks know how to cook -- but I didn´t want to know what was in it.
