3 Days / 2 Nights
Min 3 travelers
Daily (Best time march through november)
In and out by bus-boat (round trip)
A 50% deposit is required to guarantee the reservation. The remaining balance must be paid in the briefing time that is a week prior to departure date. Your reservation will be automatically wait-listed if no deposit is received.
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On the first day of our adventure into the Jungle of Manu, we will pick you up around 5:00 AM from your Hotels in Cusco, using Amazon Tours Peru private transport, our first stopping to visit the pre Inca burial towers of Ninamarca. We then drive through the mountains to get to Tres Cruces, the highest point and entrance to Manu National Park to one of the most protected natural areas in South America. From here we will continue into the Cloud Forest and at Fog forest we will explore for around 3 hours to observe the National bird of Peru, (the cock of the rock), the biggest monkey in Peru (woolly monkeys) and to observe different types of bromeliads, beautiful orchids and in a lucky day we might encounter the Andean Bear (Tremarctos ornatus) and many others exotic birds like Blue-banded Tucanet, Golden-headed Quetzal and Crested Quetzal. Then we arrive to our Amazon Pona Lodge where we will sleep in a beautiful and rustic lodge, this night before dinner we do short night walking using our rubber boots (night walk optional).
Accommodation: Amazon Pona Lodge
Meals: Lunch (Box Lunch) Dinner
After breakfast we continue by our van to tropical lowland rainforest, stopping along the way to visit a coca and banana plantations. Arriving at the small village Atalaya at 650m, we change into a motorized canoe to navigate down the fast of Alto Madre de Dios River, with all equipment (life jackets) along the boat trip, we can see a variety of birds, such as herons, kingfisher and always the presence of vultures of which the most spectacular is the condor of the jungle, the king of vultures (Sarcoramphus papa).
In the afternoon we will visit Machuwasi Lake where we will take a balsa raft and see Capybara (the biggest rodent in the world) and the pre-historic Hoatzin bird, watch the beautiful sunset,(included night expeditions) to see tarantulas, different types of spiders, poisonous frogs, tree frogs, snakes, alligators, night monkeys, armadillos and boas.
We will spend the night in our rustic at Harpy Lodge.
Accommodation: Harpy Eagle Lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
We will leave early to visit the parrots, parakeets and mini macaws clay lick, and after breakfast we will walk in the jungle for several hours and see different animals such as howlers monkeys, brown capuchin monkeys, squirrel monkeys, collared peccaries and birds such as eagles, macaws, parrots and toucans, and medicinal plants.
We will return to Atalaya by boat where our private bus will be waiting to take us back to Cusco.
We return to Cusco via the cloud forest and Paucartambo. We will arrive back in Cusco in the late afternoon.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
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