DESCRIPTION:

Hummingbirds are amazing creature, restricted to Americas, Peru its home of 127 species, some of them are Peruvian endemics, including the biggest «Giant Hummingbird», the most spectacular, crazy and wonderful «Marvelous Spatuletail» and very small range habitat «Purple-backed Sunbeam».
We are the only tour company that offers a change to visit it habitat «Molino Viejo», in this isolated area we can see not only this species but we get a set o variety of Peruvian endemic species with good chance to see most of them.
Rufous-eared Brushfinch, Baron’s Spinetail, Plain-tailed Warbling-finch, Unicolored Tapaculo, Striated Earthcreeper, White-cheeked Cotinga, Ancash Tapaculo, all these species are Peruvian endemic and there are many more to see it. fortunately our standar tour offer chance to visit area, Spectacular Northern Peru Birding tour finish in Trujillo where it’s the perfect place to connect to this extension.

Day 1: SINSICAP to HUAMACHUCO.

from Trujillo we have a driving to Sincicap we have a morning birding on this west slope of the andes, Rusty-bellied Spinetail, Piura Chat-tyrant, Black-necked Woodpecker, Unicolored Tapaculo are some Peruvian endemic species that we need to find before to leave this area, after our picnic we have a long driving to get Huamachuco.

Night: Huamachuco. B:L:D.

What to Bring:

• Please do not bring too much luggage. For domestic flights you can hold 23 kg. ( 50.7063 lbs.) and 8 kg. (17.637 lbs.) in hand luggage. Extra costs run by yourselves.
• please put all necessary staff on your hand backpack for the second day.
• Lightweight comfortable clothing is recommended, i.e. standard field pants and shirts for the
  entire trip, some jacket for cold places is enough.
• Sunblock and hat or cap.
• An umbrella and rain poncho, remember even if you have a good weather forecast, this can change suddenly.
• Please using camouflaged clothing would be ok not really any military clothing avoid the second.
• Shower thongs / rubber flip flops will be useful.

Recommendation:

• Binoculars.
• Extra Batteries.
• Camera.

General:

• Birding will primarily be on along the road and some trails – difficulty is easy to moderate level.
• We will be moving between 0 – 3500 meters, asl (o – 11482.94 feet). Mostly around 2400 meters.
• We will experience all kinds of weather, but no special clothing is necessary.
• We will have electric power at all our destinations. There are sockets inside all rooms with 220 volt
  electricity.
• Internet service / wifi are available in your hotel.

Medical and Health Information:

High altitude information you may find useful. Arriving in Trujillo is not a problem because we are at sea level, if you didn’t stay in Cusco yet, , the highest point during the tour is 3500 meters, but probably not high enough to cause serious problems. Adjusting to higher altitude is a very individual thing.
Some may feel no effects at all, some may have minor effects, and others may experience great difficulty.
You may feel the lack of oxygen, and will easily get «out of breath» You may feel a little nauseous, have a headache, or tire easily.. You will acclimatize to it by producing more red blood cells, so you should make sure you stay well hydrated, avoid physical effort (at the higher elevation physical effort its «Cero», because we’ll be in the car just driving ) as the extra cells thicken your blood. and Coca Tea it’s very helpful.

Drink lots of water, while avoiding alcohol or caffeine. Dehydration can make any effects of altitude worse. Try to avoid overeating the first day.

your safety and well-being is of first importance above all else.

Therefore, I will be making frequent checks to make sure everyone is feeling well.
If someone in the group isn’t feeling well easily we can visit and small hospital to be sure that you are OK at the same time we can ask for some medicine at the drugstore after doctor diagnostic.
There are medications available for altitude sickness. Please check with your doctor. For the headache, you can take an over-the-counter medicine, such as acetaminophen (Tylenol), ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), or naproxen (Aleve).

Travel insurance

Our suggestion is that you use travel insurance service. The normal price of this tour not cover travel insurance.

Books:

Birds of Peru is the best field Guide.
If you consider you can bring some other field guide are welcome.

+ Prices Include:

• Private transport in all the way.
• All accommodations in all the tour (Trujillo / Trujillo).
• three meals per day (breakfast, lunch/ picnic or box lunch depending where we are, dinner, snacks, water available all the time).
• Bird guide specialist.
• Water bottle.
• Bird checklist per person.
• Entrances to all Birding spots.
• Basically full board in a private tour.

– Not included:

• Laundry, calls, medical costs or hospitalization, excess baggage charges, insurance, or other items of personal nature.
• Domestic flights are not include but we can assist you too.

What I (guide) will have with me

• Recording stuff Roland R-05/Microphone SENNHEISER ME66/K6.
• Two iPods- speakers.
• A Swarovski ATX 80 scope 20-60 zoom
• Green laser pointer
• Owling light.
• GPS.
• Personal Swarovski Binoculars.
• I will be carrying the new field guide Birds of Peru this can be found on www.amazon.com.

Tour Calendar:

• Any time of the year, please contact for more information.

If you need private or customized tour please contact us directly to:

• • • • https://www.tanagertours.com
      • info@tanagertours.com