The flight from Puerto Maldonado to Lima took the better part of three hours.  This included a forty-five minute stop-over in Cusco.  By the time they had reached Lima it was already two-thirty in the afternoon.  The passengers of Flight 1182 stepped off onto the tarmac at Jorge Chavez International Airport in bright sunshine, with temperatures well over thirty-five degrees Celsius, a great relief from the downpours in Puerto Maldonado, however.  The airport served more than fourteen million annual passengers, and was growing in size every year.  With direct flights from Lima to almost anywhere in the world, it really was Peru’s international gateway for tourism.  Once inside the massive terminal, the tour group split up momentarily to check in for their individual flights back to their home countries,...

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