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MANU – It is the most important natural destination in the world.

Manu offers, by far, the greatest quantity and diversity of animals and plants in the world. No other destination in Peru or beyond can compare. Nowhere else can you enjoy a superbly intact transect of tropical habitats from Andean grasslands and cloud forests down to foothill and lowland forests Manu boasts the highest bird, mammal, and plant diversity of any park on Earth, including 1,000 of the world's 9,700 bird species, 200 species of mammals, and 15,000 species of flowering plants. The most photogenic spectacles are frolicking Giant Otters, 1,000 parrots and macaws at a riverbank clay lick, dancing Cocks-of-the-Rock, habituated monkeys and huge Lowland Tapirs at a forest clay lick. One of our lodges, Manu Wildlife Center, currently offers the world's finest viewing of this elusive animal, which elsewhere is harder to see even than the Jaguar, which also is a frequent sight in Manu.
 
Manu Wildlife Center is located in a private, 40,000-acre rain forest reserve adjacent to the 1 million acre protected area named the “Amarakaeri Reserved Zone”. The Center is the only lodge in the Manu lowlands with roomy, private bungalows, each of which has en suite private bathrooms completes with tiled, hot water showers.


Circuit: Scenic
Activity : Walk by the jungle
Location : Madre de Dios – Manu
Level : Easy
DURATION : 5 Days / 4 Nights 4 days / 3 nights
Season Recommended: May to Noviember
Weather : Tropical / Humid
 

PAT EC 196 THE MANU IN LIGHT AIRCRAFT (4D – 3 N)  (Read Full Program)

Day 1: MANU / LODGE
Transfer hotel/Cusco Airport.
Take flight to Boca Manu. Here you take a motorized canoe from Madre de Dios River to Manu Wildlife Center to arrive for lunch. Pm. Excursion through forest trails that surround the lodge. On these trails you have an excellent chance to encounter some of the 12 species of monkeys. Dinner. Short night excursion to explore nocturnal life in the rainforest. (L/D)


Day 2: MANU / EXCURSION TO LAGOS
Take a 25 minutes boat journey downstream to the only large parrot and macaw clay lick in the Manu area. Please note that the clay lick is not as active in May, June and July. Lunch; continue to explore the miles of forest trails surrounding the lodge. Here we watch the last frantic activity in the rainforest canopy before night settles. Dinner (B/L/D)


Day 3: EXPLORATION OF TRAILS
Take a motor-canoe to visit the Camungo Oxbow Lake. In addition to touring the lake by catamaran to look for the resident family of giant otters and other lakeside fauna, Explore the forest trail and visit high canopy platform. Lunch. Explore the forest trails for more wildlife encounters. After supper, explorers still with enough energy will have a chance for a final visit to the Tapir clay lick. (B,L,D,)

Day 4: (Program 4 days /3 nights) MANU /CUSCO…
Board the motor-canoe for the two hours return trip to the Manu landing strip, from which you fly to Cusco. Arrival, transfer to the hotel. (B)

Day 4: (Program 5 days / 4 nights) BLANCO RIVER
AM. Spend the morning visiting the nearby Blanco Oxbow Lake. Lunch. Your guide is available to further explore the forest trails for more wildlife encounters.Dinner. (B/L/D).

Day 5: MANU / CUSCO
Breakfast. Board the motor canoe for the two hours return trip to the Manu landing strip, from which you fly to Cusco. Arrival, transfer to the hotel. (B)


NOTE: The programs can have changes in order to improve the activities that are planned



PAT EC 197 - MANU NATIONAL PARK (8 D/7 N) (Read Full Program)

Circuit: Scenic
Location: Madre de Dios - Manu
Level: Moderate
Duration: 8 days/ 7 nights
Operation: From April To November
Weather: Tropical / humed

Day 1: CUSCO / SALVACION
AM. The tour guide will pick you up from the hotel to head toward the Amazonia. Pass by Huambutio to climb up to Huancarani (4,100 meters) and after descend to the typical colonial town of Paucartambo (3,600 meters), Descend toward the jungle. Included box lunch.
 
Later we will continue towards Boca Manu (Confluence Madre de Dios and Manu Rivers), where we will set camp and dinner. (L. D.)


Day 2: SALVACIÓN / BOCA MANU
Breakfast. Return again to the edge of the river and to initiate our trip through descending for the High Madre de Dios river. Box Lunch included. Continue toward the locality of Boca Manu, where we will camp. (B.L.D.)

Day 3: BOCA MANU/COCHA SALVADOR
Breakfast. Departure by boat. Box lunch included. At noon we enter Manu Park's National Reserve. Continue our journey up river until reaching Cocha Salvador. Arrival, dinner and camp. (B.L.D)

Day 4: COCHA SALVADOR/OTORONGO / SALVADOR
Stroll at down through the jungle along. Return to camp for breakfast. Those who wish to continue investigating may do so through several established passages in the area or ride along the river in the typical "Piraguas" and take a deep in the water. Lunch and dinner included. Later we stroll through the jungle along an established path that leads to Cocha Salvador. (B.L.D).

Day 5: COCHA SALVADOR / BOCA MANU
All day free in the area. The community of Boca Manu. Included all food and lodging. ( B.L.D)

Day 6: BOCA MANU
Brreakfast at campsite, we continue traveling by boat to return to the starting point at Amazonia, where the lodge is located.

Day 7: BOCA MANU / SALVADOR
Breakfast and transfer to the river shore to cross by boat until reaching Atalaya and continue travel to Cusco. Box lunch included. Arrival and transfer to hotel. (DAC).

Day 8: SALVADOR / CUSCO
Breakfast and transfer to the river shore to cross by boat until reaching Atalaya and continue travel towards Cusco. Box lunch included. Arrival and transfer to hotel. (DAC).
 

“ADVENTURE” - Ecology WITHOUT RISK
 
PAT EC 202 - TAMBOPATA – POSADA AMAZONAS (4 D / 3 N) (Read Full Program)

Circuit: Scenic
Activity : Walk by the jungle
Location : Madre De Dios – Tambopata
Level : Any difficult
DURATION : 4 days / 3 nights
Season Recommended: April to Noviember
Weather : Tropical / Humid

Day 1: PUERTO MALDONADO - AMAZONAS LODGE
Transfer to our office in Puerto Maldonado. Brief survey of the town. Trip to the Tambopata river port in the community of Infierno. Board our boats to Posada Amazonas. Boxed lunch included. During our voyage we may see bird species typical of the river or forest. We will receive a short orientation and a complete briefing on the lodge and the Ecotourism Project before our afternoon activity: the canopy tower. From the top, you will see the spectacular views of the river and the surrounding forest and observe birds from the canopy including parrots, toucans and macaws. A video about the forest of Tambopata will be displayed after dinner. (L, D)

Day 2: AMAZONAS LODGE
Visit to the Tres Chimbadas oxbow lake. Breakfast. We departure from Amazonas Lodge by boat and a 30 minute walk take us to the lake shore. We will look for giant river otters, turtles, hoatzin, and wading birds. Return to the lodge for lunch. PM, visit the community's ethnobotanical center. Hike the trails around the center with one of the residents. Return to Amazonas Lodge for dinner and overnight. you can choose and optional night walk to look for amphibians and insects (B,L,D)

Day 3: AMAZONAS LODGE
Breakfast. Visit a clay lick.. We will also have a great opportunity to spot other spectacular wildlife, active at this time of the day, like scarlet or blue and gold macaws and a great deal of other birds. Visit a small parakeet clay lick that is a 45 minute walk away. Dozens and sometimes hundreds of Blue Headed Parrots, Orange-Cheeked Parrots, Cobalt-winged parakeets, and sometimes even the rare Rock Parakeet congregate here on clear days to ingest clay. Lunch, walk through a trail on primary forest with a community member and our naturalist guide. Return to Amazonas Lodge. (B,L,D)

Day 4: AMAZONAS LODGE - PUERTO MALDONADO
Breakfast, we take our rowboat of return to Puerto Maldonado, and from there to the airport, to time for our flight of return to Cuzco. (B)

INCLUDED: Accommodations in the lodges based on double rooms. All the aquatic and terrestrial transportations in agreement to the itinerary. Transfers. All the excursions with bilingual guide. Re-confirmation of national flights from Puerto Maldonado. Foods specified in the itinerary. B= BREAKFAST – L= LUNCH – D= DINNER

 
PAT EC 203 CHUNCHO – MACAW PARROT. (4 D/ 3 N) L.T.L
OPERA (Operative from April 1rst to October 31th) (Read Full Program)

Day 1: …..PUERTO MALDONADO - JUNGLE LODGE
Flight to Puerto Maldonado and journey to the lodge. Transfer to a dugout canoe for the trip up the Tambopata River to the lodge. Box-lunch is provided on board. On arrival you will have a welcome drink. Pm, you set off for an introductory walk into the "terra firme" forest behind the lodge. Dinner, walk to find nocturnal animals or insects by the eye-shine a specialization for increasing the light and see better. (L,D)

Day 2: CONDENADO LAKE MACAW EL CHUNCHO – Camping.
Hike to Lake Condenado & trip to the Macaw & parrot Clay-lick "EL CHUNCHO" (Collpa). Breakfast. Board the motorized canoe once again for the short journey to the trail head to begin a morning's exploration by foot and paddle canoe of the lake system of Condenado. After lunch, return to the canoe to continue the journey, to an area deep within the Tambopata National Reserve where the isolated MACAW & PARROT CLAY LICK "EL CHUNCHO" is situated. After dinner you will go searching for some animals like a Capybaras, Caimans, Tapirs, and the famous Jaguar by walk along the banks of the Tambopata River,. Camping on the beach near the Collpa "EL CHUNCHO". (B,L,D)

Day 3: MACAW EL CHUNCHO - LODGE
Visit the Collpa "EL CHUNCHO" and return to Lodge. Return down river to the lodge for lunch. At night you will go searching for Caimans (alligators) and other nocturnal animals by canoe along the Tambopata River. Night in Lodge. (B,L,D)

Day 4: LODGE - PUERTO MALDONADO…..
Departure. A dawn start is required for the canoe trip back to Puerto Maldonado. Your guide will take care of you on arrival in Puerto. (B)

 
 
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