Duration
3 days and 2 nights
Departures Daily departures
Activities Jungle excursion (see detailed program
below)
Airfares Not included, available upon request
Meals Included as specified below
Customizable YES, feel free to ask for extra services
DAY 1 ARRIVAL & RECEPTION BY GUIDE
Upon arrival from Lima or Cusco, we will welcome you at the airport
and drive you ten minutes to our Puerto Maldonado headquarters.
While enjoying your first taste of the forest in our gardens we
will ask you to pack only the necessary gear for your next few
days, and leave the rest at our safe deposit. This helps us keep
the boats and cargo light.
Skirting Puerto Maldonado, we drive 20 kilometers to the Tambopata
River Port, entering the Native Community of Infierno. The port
is a communal business. Boxed Lunch. The forty five minute boat
ride from the Tambopata Port to Posada Amazonas will take us into
the Community´s Primary Forest Private Reserve.
Upon arrival, the lodge manager will welcome you and brief you
with important navigation and security tips.
Canopy Tower: A twenty minute walk from Posada Amazonas leads
to the 30 meter scaffolding canopy tower. A bannistered staircase
running through the middle provides safe access to the platforms
above. From atop you obtain spectacular views of the vast expanses
of standing forest cut by the Tambopata River winding through
the middle. Now and then toucans, parrots or macaws are seen flying
against the horizon, or mixed species canopy flocks land in the
treetop next to you. Dinner
Ecotourism Lecture: A daily presentation on the Infierno ecotourism
project is available every night from a staff member.
Overnight at Posada Amazonas (Box Lunch, D)
DAY 2 TRES CHIMBADAS OXBOW LAKE AND PARROT CLAY LICK
Breakfast and then we depart to Tres Chimbadas, is thirty minutes
by boat and forty five minutes hiking from Posada Amazonas. Once
there you will paddle around the lake in a catamaran, searching
for the resident family of nine giant river otters (seen by 60%
of our lake visitors) and other lakeside wildlife such as caiman,
hoatzin and horned screamers. Otters are most active from dawn
to 8.00 or 9.00am.
After we continue to the parrot clay lick. This clay lick is
only a twenty minute walk from Posada Amazonas. From a blind located
about twenty meters away you will see dozens of parrots and parakeets
descend on most clear mornings to ingest the clay on a river bank.
Species such as Mealy and Yellow- headed Amazon, Blue-headed Parrot
and Dusky headed Parakeet descend at this clay lick. The clay
lick is active at dawn, during the late mornings and mid-afternoons.
Lunch
Ethnobotanical Tour: A twenty minute boat drive downriver leads
you to a trail designed by the staff of the Centro Ñape.
The Centro Ñape is a communal organization that produces
medicines out of forest plants and administers them to patients
who choose their little clinic. They have produced a trail which
explains the different medicinal (and other) uses of selected
plants. Dinner
Night walk: You will have the option of hiking out at night,
when most of the mammals are active but rarely seen. Much easier
to find are frogs with shapes and sounds as bizarre as their natural
histories.
Overnight at Posada Amazonas (B, L, D)
DAY 3 TRANSFER OUT
Breakfast. Transfer Boat from Posada Amazonas to Tambopata River
Port to go to Puerto Maldonado Headquarters
We retrace our river and road journey back to Puerto Maldonado,
our office and the airport. Depending on airline schedules, this
may require dawn departures. (B)
END OF SERVICES
Please note that the program may vary slightly so as to maximize
your wildlife sightings, depending on the reports of our researchers
and experienced naturalist guides based at the lodge.
BOAT TRANSPORTATION
All our boats are 20 foot long, roofed canoes with 55 hp outboard
motors. Daily arrivals and departures from every port are scheduled
to meet every airline´s arrival and departure with a maximum
two hour wait.
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