Description

Tambopata reserve is a Peruvian nature reserve located in the southeastern region of Madre de Dios, it’s the most accessible tropical rain forest in southern Peru, nowadays there are direct flights, if you are looking for a jungle experience, you can take this tour specially designed for people who has short time, you can take a flight from Lima or Cusco to Puerto Maldonado, on your arriving you we’ll feel the tropical weather.
Ready!!! take you flight ans we’ll be waiting for you.

Day 1: Puerto Maldonado – Canopy Walk Way.

Domestic flight arrives around noon, at the airport we will be waiting for you with a private transport, from here we go to the port on the Madre de Dios River, we aboard our motorized canoe, We ride down the river just after couple minutes we get the confluence with Tambopata River, one of the tributaries of this river, in a few days we will ride along this river and we can compare the differences between both rivers.
After about 20 minutes we arrive at our lodge, we have lunch, this afternoon we will visit the canopy walk way, there is an impressive view from the top of the trees, we see spectacular flying macaws, eagles, vultures, if we have the lucky, we will meet with a group of monkeys, large-headed capuchin can usually be observed as are the squirrel monkeys, and some Saddle-backed Tamarins too.
from this tower we can see different types of birds making bird watching an unparalleled delight, sight at eye level, at the end of the day we have a night walk, looking for night wildlife activity: night monkeys, snakes , insects, frogs, those are some of the animals that we can find.

Night: Amazonian Lodge. L:D.

Day 2: Sandoval Lake.

Early in the morning we go to Sandoval lake, we have full day excursion, we ride for this trail have 3 km distance, ( 2 mi ) we try to get as soon as we can the dock where er reach rowing boat, this is a protected oxbow lake, where engine boats are not allowed, this lake has a variety of wildlife the mega is Giant otters, we have to scan over the water, eventually we can see at the distance small round balls, these are their heads, early in the morning they are very active, fishing and teaching to catch feeding to young members. under the water there lots of fishes, cat fishes, piranhas and wish some attention Paiche, the biggest freshwater fish in south America. it can get 10 feet long and 250 kg – 551.156 pounds, Caimans are present too in the area there are two species white and Black, white can get 2 – 3 mt and black until 6 mt.
on the river bank we find lots different species of birds, feeding and walking carefully, some of the are flight like macaws ready to visit clay licks, on the branches at mid level monkeys are active, we’ll have a very busy day, on the way back we’ll have chance for some birdwatching in the trail and colorful butterfly will will call our attention same as some little frogs and insects. we go back our lodge for second chance night walk. during the walk we can enjoy magnificent views of the starry sky and the milky way, with a help of our green laser pointer we can see the constellations

Night: Amazonian Lodge. B:L:D.

Day 3:  To Tambopata.

This morning we’ll visit the trails system looking for more wildlife, forest its unique, with lots trees, some medicinal plants around, huge trees Ceiba is one of them, after a mid morning we go back to Puerto Maldonado, if you had small vacation we can drop you at the airport, with rest of the group here we take a ground transport driving along the inter oceanic high way to go Tambopata reserve,, we drive on paved road the we take a bumpy road to get the port on the Tambopata river, another river transport we’ll be waiting for us, just few minute down stream on the other side of the river is our lodge,
we have a relaxing afternoon with a short walk will visit highest canopy tower we have an air view over the forest and river on the right hand site, some boat riding up and down stream are part of our view, at the dusk we can couple or red-and-green, Blue-and-yellow and Scarlet Macaws, close by white-throated Toucan calling, probably enough adventure for one day.

Night: Amazon foothill. B:L:D.

Day 4: Chuncho Macaw Clay lick.

Early in the morning we sail upstream on Tambopata river, after 1.5 hours about boat ride we get the biggest Macaw clay lick in the world, where you can see the three big ARAS together, eating the clay Red-and-Green, Blue-and-Yellow, and Scarlet Macaw and of course some other nice birds, along the river we have chance for the enigmatic jaguar and some other wildlife: Capybara biggest rodent, monkeys and more.
Late in the day we enjoy the trails looking for some missing species of the lowlands.

Night: Amazon foothill. B:L:D.

Day 5: Flight back Home / Lima.

We leave the lodge after breakfast, there are various flight alternatives for leaving Puerto Maldonado; we usually go for a mid-day option to allow for a morning of birding visiting the canopy tower or trail system. This can be productive, especially for rarities. The tour will conclude with our flight back to Lima (or Cusco).” or you can connect one of our Nature tours, Cultural tours or bird tour extension see our itineraries.

Night: Lima / Cusco. B.

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.
• Lightweight comfortable clothing is recommended, i.e. standard field pants and shirts for the
  entire trip, some jackets, gloves, for cold places is enough, at least for the Cusco area.
• Day back pack is recommended, we have some walking and you need to pack daily use devices.
• Sunblock and hat or cap.
• Mosquito or Insect repellent.
• 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:

• Camera.
• Binoculars.
• Extra Batteries.
• Telescope (Optional).

General:

• we’ll visit protected national Park our tour will primarily be on forested roads and some trails – difficulty is totally easy level.
• We will be moving between 300 – 200 meters, asl (984.252 – 656.168 feet).
• We will experience tropical rain forest 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, lodges provide this service by generator from 6 – 9 pm.
• Please note be sure and bring extra batteries sometimes one single battery is not enough for one day.
• Wifi service its available just in one Lodge.
• additional memory card would be OK, please remember to download your previous day photos.

Medical and Health Information:

High altitude information you may find useful. Arriving in Puerto Maldonado is not a problem because we are 300 mt, if you were already in higher elevation like Cusco, this its ok for you, our Nature tour is relaxing, we try to avoid physical effort mostly we’ll be walking and riding in our motorized canoe.
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.
It’s very important to use long sleeves and pants, we know that weather is so hot, but consider mosquito bites, instead to use lot of insect repellent naturally you can reduce mosquito bites

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 (Puerto Maldonado/Puerto Maldonado).
• Three meals per day (breakfast, lunch/ picnic or box lunch depending where we are, dinner, snacks, water available all the time).
• Naturalist Guide specialist.
• River transport.
• Entrances to all protected, National reserves and Birding spots.
• Transfers in Puerto Maldonado.
• 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.

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 2023:

At the moment just working on Private tours but if you are interested please let us know, we can run this tour any of the year and no minimal people required.

Tour Calendar 2024:

• working on the calendar 

If you need private or customized tour please contact us for more information:

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