What to Bring:

• 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.
• Lightweight comfortable clothing is recommended, i.e. standard field pants and shirts for the
  entire trip, some jacket for cold places is enough.
• Laundry can be done everywhere, we’ll spend several days in one single place.
• Sunblock and hat or cap.
• Mosquito or insect Repellent.
• An umbrella and rain poncho.
• Rubber boots / gumboots specially for muddy or wet area, purpose is getting as close enough to have a good photo.( you don’t worry, you don’t need to use rubber boots all day, our transport we’ll be close all the time, so we can use when its just necessary)
• Small flashlight.
• knee pads, elbow pads
• You will need a fleece or other light jacket – NOT a heavy winter type coat/jacket.
  This is noted for the high elevations. We will be in all kinds of weather, but no special clothing is
  necessary. If you are a person that gets cold easily – perhaps a little more clothing, like a warm hat or
  light-weight gloves would be in order.
• Please using camouflaged clothing would be ok not really any military clothing avoid the second.
• Shower thongs / rubber flip flops will be useful.

Recommendation:

• Camera.
• Extra Batteries.
• Flash ( optional)
• Continuous light Lamp (optional)
• Binoculars ( optional)
• Tripod (optional)

General:

• Butterfly photography will primarily be on National Parks, Private protected areas, forested roads and some trails – difficulty is easy to moderate level.
• We will be moving between 0 – 2200 meters, asl (7217.848 feet, this at the highest location). Mostly between 356 and 1900 meters.
• We will experience all kinds of weather, but no special clothing is necessary, mostly we’ll stay in tropical places with pleasant weather.
• We will have electric power at all our destinations. There are sockets inside all rooms with 220 volt
  electricity.
• WiFi services its available in all destinations.
• Please note be sure and bring extra batteries, we’ll have busy days so one battery probably not enough.

Medical and Health Information:

High altitude information you may find useful. Arriving in Lima is not a problem because is basically sea level, them we’ll take a flight to Tarapoto where we start our butterfly photo tours, gradually we will go to the Andes, the highest point during the tour is 2200 meters, probably not enough to get altitude sickness.
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, so take it easy. 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, as the extra cells thicken your blood.
Drink lots of water, while avoiding alcohol or caffeine. Dehydration can make any effects of altitude worse.
Please keep in mind our Butterfly photography tour will be at lower elevation, so problems with altitudes its “Cero”.
If someone in the group isn’t feeling well during our pass by the high point, we have first aid-kid, this means Oxygen bottle, this help to reduce some bad symptoms, any way we leave this elevation as soon as we can.
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 / Field Guide

There is not available any specific Butterfly field guide for Peru, but we have several Pdf files from our personal Butterfly photo collection

If you consider you can bring some other field guide are welcome, this for sure will be helpful.

+ Prices Include:

• Private transport in all the way.
• All accommodations in all the tour (Lima/Tarapoto).
• Three meals per day (breakfast, lunch/ picnic or box lunch depending where we are, dinner, snacks, water available all the time).
• Butterfly guide specialist.
• Entrances to all Butterflying spots.
• Transfers in Lima..
• 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.