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Level 17 Return To Peru

Level 17 Ultimate Map

Pull out your bazooka and kill a leopard on the right (yes, you can kill it!). Kill the snake nearby and take the health leaf. Examine your jeep – take a raft (you will need it only once). Taking a gas canister is also possible but you won't need it. Note the stone front side – you will soon finish the level at the same place. Launch the raft and swim down the river. Avoid the rocks and swim towards the platform on the left. Leave the raft at this calm spot and step to the ground. You can see another health leaf across the river. To get there dive into the water, swim through the underwater cave and climb above. Now run down the slope and jump at the end – Indy will grab the opposite shore. Pull up and pick the leaf. Step down and look left. Kill the snakes in front of the cave and pick [Treasure #1:], a golden idol behind the vines.

Return to the calm spot and board the raft again. Continue down the river and waterfalls. Dock to the shore and pick up another health leaf. You will see two caves in the water covered with vegetation. Enter the one on the left and swim to the open area. Climb out of the pool, walk to a ledge above the water. From this spot it's hard to notice another ledge straight across. Just run/jump and grab it. Pull up to the next ledge, walk up the slope, turn left and climb down to the niche in the wall. Collect [Treasure #2:], a blue gem.

Swim back to the waterfalls and dive to the second cave. The underground current takes you to a piranha pool. There are several small pools in the area. You can pick a medipack near a skeleton guarded by a lizard. Dive into the water and find a small tunnel in the right wall in the room with crates. Get out to the shore and whip across to the other side. The passage leads to another room with a torch platform and skulls in the walls. In the left wall you will see [Treasure #3:], silver idol. Use your whip and let the idol fall into the water to pick it up there. Light the torch and then dive. You will also see another underwater tunnel covered with vegetation. Slash through it and get out of the water near the whirlpool. Push the block into the water and water level in the room will rise. Swim up and on your way take [Treasure #4:], a silver bar, in the niche in the wall.

There are two corridors above. Get out of the water and follow the one with a trapped skeleton in the beam of light (it's a trap – don't step into the light). Near a boulder at the end kill some spiders and crawl into the opening on your left. Get a Stone Key. Now return to the second corridor across the pool. Avoid the dark stones in the floor (darts) and proceed to the far wall. There is a keyhole for the Stone Key up the ledge to the left which opens a section in the floor. There's also a crawl passage in the wall to the right – but Indy can't whip the ray of light above at the end of it. Your goal here is to find a bamboo stick and place it into the triangular hole opposite the keyhole – after it Indy will be able to whip the stick from the crawl passage and climb to the upper ledge.

Descend to the opened floor section and explore the dark caves. Use a couple of grenades to get rid of scorpions in the darkness. Shoot the remaining ones and enter the cave. Light the torches on your way up and pick [Treasure #5:], a red gem inside a niche in the wall. Use your whip to climb up and jump/shimmy to a ledge with skeleton on the opposite side of the room. Take the bamboo stick. You can climb the upper ledge but there's a dead end. Go back through the caves to the room, place the bamboo stick into the triangular hole in the wall, crawl inside the passage and use your whip to climb to the above ledge.

Don't step onto the first two tiles in the corridor (traps), jump into the third one at the end. But before that climb several ledges up to a passageway, turn around, jump/grab/pull up on the ledge. Light the torch on the right, turn left and get [Treasure #6:], a blue gem. Return to the corridor and step onto the nearest dark tile to slide to the bottom. You are in the snake pit. Kill the snakes, but they will keep appearing. Pick up a medipack behind the skeleton and climb the ledge at the corner. Your goal here is to climb to the small window in the wall above the room. Use your whip to get to the next ledge and climb to a platform with a block. Pull the block so it opens a ladder for you, climb to the other side of the block using the ladders.

From this point you can climb the ladder right and down to the niche in the wall below or upwards to the top ledge. Climb right-down first, shimmy right, pull up into a room and get [Treasure #7:], a green gem. Hang and drop into the snake pit again. Make your way back to the platform with a block and climb to the top ledge now. Jump across the chasm and shimmy left until you're able to pull up on the opposite platform. Stand at the end of the platform - the window you need to get to is just below. Face the wall now and jump backwards to the slope below or hang and drop to it. Keep sliding and at the end of the slope jump to the window and pull up. Jump towards the opposite wall and grab it, then shimmy left. Now whip the outlined block in the wall and it will fall down – this triggers the big boulder. Drop to the floor and follow the new passage.

You're in a wide opened area with ledges along the walls. Before you start jumping hang and drop to the ledge below, climb the ladder and pick [Treasure #8:], a silver bar. Return to the passage and look up above the third ledge. There's a cave covered with vines and a treasure inside. However, Indy needs to get to the door on the far right side. Keep jumping across the ledges (the wall blocks will try to push you in the chasm). Use the following strategy: perform a running jump, make one step back and so on (you won't have time for any extra movements). The blocks will make a stairway up towards the upper doorway. Keep jumping but don't forget to slash through the vines and grab [Treasure #9:], a silver bar in the cave inside a wall. Continue towards the tunnel at the top.

It leads to [Treasure #10:] Peru Idol – the last treasure on the level. As soon as you grab it the floor starts collapsing – run towards the door (the last doorway sections of the floor will remain intact for a while). Walk straight until a large boulder starts rolling towards you. Get back inside the doorway and wait until the boulder rolls above you. Quickly jump straight and run down the tunnel (floor sections in the doorway will collapse in a couple of seconds). You will have some time to slide down the slope, then use your whip to jump across the pit before the boulder starts rolling again. [Boulder Trap:] Find a whipable spot above you and use your whip to climb there quickly (look above just before the white tile near the end of the tunnel). The boulder smashes the wall below you and the level ends.