(Offline for a couple days for a trek to a ruined city that sounds like the name of a Pokemon)

Otorongo, a local word meaning jaguar, is located 2,000 miles from where the Marañón and Ucayali rivers meet, forming the great Amazon river.

With its roots beginning in 2005, Otorongo was started by Anthony Giardenelli, an upstate New Yorker, and his wife, Ivonne, a native of Iquitos. It is a twelve room lodge surrounded by spacious open gardens where various plants are grown and where the lodge's macaws, chickens, and ducks roam about. At one end of the rooms is a large dining area. At the opposite end is a hammock room where ~6 hammocks are set up in a semicircle ready to encapsulate their residents. 

Makako was only a short ten minute ride to the airport. I tried checking in, but the woman at the counter wouldn't give me my tickets until I got my tax exemption from the office located in the corner across the check in area. Returning to the counter, I handed her my stamped passport and exemption paper, and she handed me 70 Colombian pesos. I had bought a one-way ticket out of Colombia, and that seemed to have triggered the airline to charge me a $39 resident tax, which was the 70 COP she handed back to me. Of course, I was leaving Colombia, so then I had even more money I couldn't spend.