PUERTO MALDONADO JUNGLE 3 DAYS 2 NIGHTS
TAMBOPATA AMAZON ADVENTURE
02 NIGHTS IN JUNGLE - WASAI TAMBOPATA LODGE
DAILY DEPARTURES

WASAI Tambopata Lodge is located in the heart of the amazon, approximately 50 Km. away from Puerto Maldonado in a straight line, and approximately 120 Km. on the river route, in the heart of the Tambopata Candamo National Reserve . On the banks of the Tambopata River it is surrounded by primary rainforest and is a place of natural beauty.
There are 20km of forest trails around the lodge and it is also possible to visit the local community of Baltimore, the El Gato Waterfalls, and collpas of parrots and mammals. Fishing is also possible. Up-river from the lodge there are no more dwellings. The lack of people and the closeness to the Andes produces an abundance of flora and fauna not seen in other areas of the amazon.

INCLUDES:
- Transfers In / Out Airport / Lodge / Airport.
- 02 Nights of Lodging.
- 02 Breakfasts, 02 Lunches, 02 Dinners.
- Visit to the Parrots clay lick.
- Etno-botanical treekings in the Tambopata trails.
- Nocturnal excursion in the river looking for caimans.
- Bilingual naturalist resident guides.

TAMBOPATA AMAZON ADVENTURE
PRICES PER PERSON (Expresed in american dollars)

ITINERARY

A new way to experience eco-tourism in the Peruvian Amazon. A 03 days / 02 nights ecological tour with opportunities to learn about the Amazon jungle in an unforgettable and enjoyable experience. It combines walks, adventure, and different activities all during which you will have the chance to see wild animals and exotic birds due to the great biodiversity that exists in this region.
DAY 01: Puerto Maldonado – Tambopata National Reserve
A staff member will await your arrival at the airport and transfer you to Wasai Maldonado Ecolodge. There you will be welcomed with delicious tropical juice while the guide gives you a brief explanation of the tour and provides some last minute tips for your trip.
You will then be transferred by car to the port to embark in an outboard boat to the Wasai Tambopata Lodge located in the buffer Zone of the Tambopata National Reserve. Depending on the river conditions the journey will take between 3 ½ to 4 hours.
During the journey you may observe different kinds of birds and mammals that inhabit the river banks such as capibaras, caimans, taricayas and oropendolas. Upon your arrival to Tambopata lodge, the staff will help you to settle in to your bungalow accommodations.
Your guide will then give you a brief introduction and provide some tips to maximize your security and comfort during your stay in the Amazon jungle. Then, your guide will introduce you to amazon rainforest ecosystems with a nocturnal walk.
During your night walk you might see some frogs, spiders, moths and exotic animals only seen in this part of the world.
Overnight in Wasai Tambopata Lodge.
DAY 2: Parrot’s Clay Lick – Amazon Adventure
Early in the morning we will walk for about 30 minutes to visit a Parrot’s Clay Lick near the Gato River. There you will see many species of parrots, macaws, and other birds and animals that live in this National Reserve.
We will then visit a native community to observe how Amazon people live and use the natural resources of the forest to survive.
After that, we will return to the Wasai Tambopata Lodge for breakfast. Should you decide, we can stop at a nice cascade on the way back where you could swim or just relax.
After a short rest we will take a ride along the Tambopata River on a wooden canoe or individual kayaks. This activity accommodates all physical conditions and ages. During this adventure activity we will enjoy amazing landscapes and watch the birds and wildlife along the river bank. And weather permitting, we will relax and bathe on any of the beaches along the Tambopata River. Lunch.
You will start the afternoon with a botanical walk to a remote swamp area and our “Amazon Adventure Site.” Along the way, you will have the opportunity to experience the great biodiversity of our jungle and learn about the hidden medicinal secrets of its plants.
At the “Amazon Adventure Site” you may choose to participate in a range of activities such as climbing along rope bridges, fishing in the swamp, or crossing it with one of our Zip lines which range from 50 to 100m long (160 to 320 feet) and various altitudes. Or simply relax and enjoy the beauty of your surroundings.
When we return from “Amazon Adventure” we will start another exciting excursion by boat searching for Caimans along the Tambopata River. Dinner.
Overnight in Wasai Tambopata Lodge.
DAY 3: River Journey to Puerto Maldonado
Breakfast. You will wake up with the beautiful sunrise of the jungle to leave the lodge. During the way back you will again have the opportunity to see wild animals and enjoy the fresh morning of the jungle. Depending on your departure flight you can enjoy the swimming pool, bar, and other hotel facilities in Puerto Maldonado.

PUERTO MALDONADO JUNGLE 3 DAYS 2 NIGHTS
TAMBOPATA CANDAMO EXPEDITION - MACAW CLAY LICK
02 NIGHTS IN JUNGLE - WASAI TAMBOPATA LODGE
DAILY DEPARTURES

WASAI Tambopata Lodge is located in the heart of the amazon, approximately 50 Km. away from Puerto Maldonado in a straight line, and approximately 120 Km. on the river route, in the heart of the Tambopata Candamo National Reserve . On the banks of the Tambopata River it is surrounded by primary rainforest and is a place of natural beauty.
There are 20km of forest trails around the lodge and it is also possible to visit the local community of Baltimore, the El Gato Waterfalls, and collpas of parrots and mammals. Fishing is also possible. Up-river from the lodge there are no more dwellings. The lack of people and the closeness to the Andes produces an abundance of flora and fauna not seen in other areas of the amazon.

INCLUDES:
- Transfers In / Out Airport / Lodge / Airport.
- 02 Nights of Lodging.
- 02 Breakfasts, 02 Lunches, 02 Dinners.
- Visit to the Macaws clay lick "El Chuncho".
- Etno-botanical treekings in the Tambopata trails.
- Nocturnal excursion in the river looking for caimans.
- Bilingual naturalist resident guides.

TAMBOPATA CANDAMO EXPEDITION
PRICES PER PERSON (Expresed in american dollars)

ITINERARY

The trip is intensive, full of adventure, with possibilities to find wild animals and the most attractive landscapes: Visit to the most attractive place of the region, the amazing Macaw Clay Lick "collpa" in the Bahuaja-Sonene National Park.
DAY 01: Puerto Maldonado – Tambopata National Reserve
Reception  at the airport and transportation to the WASAÍ Maldonado Ecolodge, where you will receive a welcoming tropical fruit beverage. You will embark for a 4 hour motorboat trip up the Tambopata River to WASAI Tambopata Lodge & Research Center (box lunch on board). During the trip into the heart of the rain forest we will be able to observe clouds of butterflies, typical Amazon communities, while groups of birds pass over the boat and animals such as capybaras turtles and caiman.  Reception and accommodation at Wasai lodge.
Introductory walk to understand rainforest ecosystems and see some of the amazing trees . Return to the lodge for dinner.
We will enjoy diverse sounds of the jungle which will accompany our first night in the Amazon.
Overnight in Wasai Tambopata Lodge.
DAY 2: Visit Macaw Clay Lick
Early wake up at 4:30 am to take a light breakfast (coffee or mate), to begin with our 40-minute journey upstream to the Macaw Clay Lick “El Chuncho” in the Bahuaja-Sonene National Park. We will have the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful natural sceneries and wildlife of the riverbanks. At our arrival, if weather permits, we will observe one of the greatest wildlife spectacles where hundreds of parrots and different species of macaws gather to eat clay, an unforgettable experience. Then, we will walk through the river beach searching for animal footprints while we have refreshment.
In the middle morning we return to the lodge to have breakfast and then take a rest to relax or do the additional adventure activities like: zip line, triline, floating ropes or enjoy the facilities and the surroundings of Wasai.
(At 11 am) We leave again to take a 10 minute river journey to enjoy “Cascadas del Gato” (Cat Cascades), where we will swim in a “natural Jacuzzi”. If you wish, you can join us to fish in the river where inhabit more than 250 species of fish or do kayaking on the river (additional). After lunch, we will have an ethno botanical walk into the rainforest by the Tambopata cross path, to learn about plants and medicinal trees of the area; and to observe the amazing jungle ecosystem where we will see walking palm trees, giant lupuna trees, snake trees and so on. At nightfall, we embark again to make a nocturnal caiman search.
Overnight in Wasai Tambopata Lodge.
DAY 3: River Journey to Puerto Maldonado
Breakfast. After breakfast we will return by boat to Puerto Maldonado to take our flight to Lima or Cuzco.

PUERTO MALDONADO JUNGLE 3 DAYS 2 NIGHTS
CANOPY, LAKE AND MACAW CLAY LICK
02 NIGHTS IN THE JUNGLE - POSADA AMAZONAS
DAILY DEPARTURES

Posada Amazonas is a 30 bedroom lodge owned by the Community of Infierno and managed with Rainforest Expeditions. To get there from Puerto Maldonado, you have to be transported by truck to the Infierno River Port where you board our boats for a forty five minute trip to Posada Amazonas. Posada Amazonas is located ten minutes walking from the river.

INCLUDES:
- Transfers In / Out Airport / Lodge / Airport.
- 02 Nights of Lodging.
- 02 Breakfasts, 02 Lunches, 02 Dinners.
- Canopy tower.
- Visit to the Tres Chimbadas lake.
- Visit to the Parrots clay lick.
- Treekings in the jungle.
- Bilingual naturalist resident guides.

POSADA AMAZONAS - RAINFOREST EXPEDITIONS
PRICES PER PERSON (Expresed in american dollars)

ITINERARY

DAY 01: Puerto Maldonado - Canopy
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.
Transfer Boat - Tambopata River Port to Posada Amazonas. 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. A daily presentation on the Infierno ecotourism project is available every night from a staff member.
Overnight in Posada Amazonas Lodge.
DAY 2: Tres Chimbadas Lake - Parrots Clay Lick
Breakfast.
Tres Chimbadas Oxbow Lake. 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 eight or nine AM.
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. 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 in Posada Amazonas Lodge.
DAY 3: Transfer to the Airport
Breakfast. Transfer Boat - Posada Amazonas to Tambopata River Port. Transfer Tambopata River Port to Pto Maldonado Headquarters. Transfer Puerto Maldonado Headquarters to Airport. 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.

PUERTO MALDONADO JUNGLE 3 DAYS 2 NIGHTS
CANOPY AND TAMBOPATA NATIONAL RESERVE
02 NIGHTS IN THE JUNGLE - REFUGIO AMAZONAS
DAILY DEPARTURES

Refugio Amazonas is a charming 32 bedroom lodge, well placed immediately adjacent to the Tambopata National Reserve. It is located 4 hours upriver from Puerto Maldonado in the buffer zone of the Tambopata National Reserve. To get here you are transported by truck to the Infierno River Port where you board our boats for the two and half hour trip to Refugio Amazonas. Refugio Amazonas is located ten minutes walking from the river.

INCLUDES:
- Transfers In / Out Airport / Lodge / Airport.
- 02 Nights of Lodging.
- 02 Breakfasts, 02 Lunches, 02 Dinners.
- Canopy tower.
- Farm Visit and Ethnobotanical Tour.
- Treekings in the jungle.
- Bilingual naturalist resident guides.
- A nocturnal excursion in the river looking for aligators.

REFUGIO AMAZONAS - RAINFOREST EXPEDITIONS
PRICES PER PERSON (Expresed in american dollars)

ITINERARY

DAY 01: Puerto Maldonado - Canopy
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.
Transfer Boat - Tambopata River Port to Refugio Amazonas. The two and a half hour boat ride from the Tambopata Port to Refugio Amazonas will take us past the Community of Infierno and the Tambopata National Reserve´s checkpoint and into the buffer zone of this 1.3 million hectare conservation unit. Boxed Lunch. Upon arrival, the lodge manager will welcome you and brief you with important navigation and security tips. Dinner.
Caiman Search. We will be out at the river’s edge at night, scanning the shores with headlamps and flashlights to catch the red gleams of reflection from caiman eyes.
Overnight in Refugio Amazonas Lodge.
DAY 2: Canopy - Ethnobotanical Visit
Breakfast.
Oxbow Lake Visit. We will paddle around the lake on a canoe or a catamaran, looking for lakeside wildlife such as hoatzin, caiman and hornerd screamers, hoping to see the otters which are infrequently seen here. You will also be rewarded with overhead sightings of macaws.
Canopy Tower. A thirty minute walk from Refugio Amazonas leads to the 25 meter scaffolding canopy tower. A bannistered staircase running through the middle provides safe access to the platforms above. The tower has been built upon high ground, therefore increasing your horizon of the continuous primary forest extending out towards the Tambopata National Reserve. From here views of mixed species canopy flocks as well as toucans, macaws and raptors are likely.
Lunch.
Farm Visit. Five minutes downriver from the lodge lies a farm owned and managed by charismatic Don Manuel from the neighbouring community of Condenado. He grows a variety of popular and unknown Amazon crops - just about every plant and tree you see serves a purpose.
Ethnobotanical Tour. Along this trail we will find a variety of plants and trees that are used by the local population with at least the same variety of purposes. We will learn about the medicinal (and other) uses of Ajo-Sacha, Yuca de Venado, Uña de Gato, Charcot-Sacha, Para-Para, among several others.
Dinner. Nightly lectures prepared by the staff of Refugio Amazonas cover conservation threats, opportunities and projects in the Tambopata National Reserve.
Overnight in Refugio Amazonas Lodge.
DAY 3: Transfer to the Airport
Breakfast. Transfer Boat - Refugio Amazonas to Tambopata River Port. Transfer Tambopata River Port to Pto Maldonado Headquarters. Transfer Puerto Maldonado Headquarters to Airport. 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.