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Day 1
Arrival and Reception by Guide . Our guides are biologists, tourism
professionals, or community members. Unless noted otherwise, our guides
speak English. We assign guides at 10:1 ratio . This means groups
smaller than 10 people will be merged with other groups under one guide.
If you would like a private guide or a guide in a language other than
English please let us know.
Transfer Airport to Pto Maldonado Headquarters. 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.
Puerto Maldonado to Tambopata River Port. 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.
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.
Orientation. 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.
Ecotourism Lecture. A daily presentation on the Infierno ecotourism
project is available every night from a staff member.
Overnight in Posada Amazonas.
Day 2
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.
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 most active at dawn and 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.
Night walk. 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
Day 3
Breakfast.
Transfer Boat - Posada Amazonas to Tambopata River Port.
Transfer Tambopata River Port to Pto Maldonado Headquarters.
Transfer Pto Maldonado Headquarters - 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.
Boat Transportation. All our boats are 20 foot long, roofed canoes with
55 hp outboard motors. Daily arrivals and departures from every port are
scheduled to meet every airline´s arrival and departure with a maximum
two hour wait. |