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PERU TRAVEL PLANNER
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TAMBOPATA EXPEDITION
EXPRESS
5 days and 4 nights
Daily Departures
Per Person Prices:$813 based on Double occupancy
Per Person Prices:$1031 based on Single occupancy
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Duration |
5 days and 4 nights |
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US$813 per person based on double occupancy |
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Departures |
Daily departures |
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Airfares |
Not included, available upon request |
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Accommodations |
Included |
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Meals |
included as specified below |
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Customizable |
YES, feel free to ask for extra
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Day 1 : PUERTO MALDONADO
– REFUGIO AMAZONAS
Arrival & Reception by Guide. Transfer Airport to Puerto
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.
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.
Orientation. Upon arrival, the lodge manager will
welcome you and brief you with important navigation and
security tips. Dinner.
Caiman searches. 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.
Day 2 : REFUGIO AMAZONAS – TAMBOPATA RESEARCH CENTER
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.
Breakfast. Brazil nut trail and camp: A few minutes hike
from the lodge is a beautiful old growth patch of Brazil
Nut forest that has been harvested for decades (if not
centuries) where the precarious remains of a camp used
two months a year by Brazil Nut gatherers can still be
experienced. We will be demonstrating the whole process
of the rain forest's only sustainably harvested product
from collection through transportation to drying.
Refugio Amazonas to Tambopata Research Center. Four and
half hours by boat from Refugio Amazonas, in the
pristine heart of the reserve, lies the Tambopata
Research Center. One and half hours into our boat
journey, as we cross the confluence with the Malinowski
River, we will leave the final traces of human
habitation behind. Within the 700,000 hectare
uninhabited nucleus of the reserve, sightings of
capybara, caiman, geese, macaws and other large species
will become more frequent. Boxed Lunch.
Orientation. Upon arrival, the lodge manager will
welcome you and brief you with important navigation and
security tips.
Overlook Trail: A three to five kilometer hike will lead
us to overlooks commanding magnificent views of the
Tambopata winding its way into the lowlands. The forest
on this trail, regenerating on old bamboo forest, is
good for Howler Monkey and Dusky Titi Monkey.
Dinner. Macaw Project Lectures: After dinner scientists
will provide an in depth look at the biology of macaws,
their feeding habits, the theories for clay lick use,
their breeding and feeding ecology, population
fluctuations and the threats to their conservation.
Overnight in Tambopata Research Center.
Day 3: TAMBOPATA RESEARCH CENTER
Macaw Clay Lick: On most clear mornings of the year
dozens of large macaws and hundreds of parrots
congregate on this large river bank in a raucous and
colorful spectacle which inspired a National Geographic
cover story. Discretely located fifty meters from the
cliff, we will observe Green-winged, Scarlet and Blue-and-gold
Macaws and several species of smaller parrots descend to
ingest clay. Outings are at dawn when the lick is most
active.
Breakfast. Floodplain Trail: This five kilometer trail
covers the prototypical rain forest with immense trees
criss-crossed by creeks and ponds. Amongst the figs,
ceibas and shihuahuacos we will look for Squirrel, Brown
Capuchin, and Spider Monkeys as well as peccaries. TRC
is located within this habitat.
Lunch. Pond Platform: Ten minutes upriver from the lodge
is a tiny pond with a platform in the middle. It is a
great place to spot waterfowl such as Muscovy duck,
sunbittern and hoatzin along with the woodpeckers,
oropendolas, flycatchers and parakeets that call this
pond their home.
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 Tambopata Research Center.
Day 4: TAMBOPATA RESEARCH CENTER – REFUGIO AMAZONAS
Breakfast. Tambopata Research Center to Refugio
Amazonas. A three and a half hour boat ride brings us to
Refugio Amazonas.
Boxed Lunch. Condenado Oxbow Lake - CONDEL: A forty
minute hike takes you Condenado Lake. You paddle canoes
around the lake looking for lakeside wildlife such as
hoatzin and caiman, hoping to see the otters which are
infrequently seen here. You will also be rewarded with
overhead sightings of macaws.
Dinner. Tambopata National Reserve Lecture. Nightly
lectures prepared by the staff of Refugio Amazonas cover
conservation threats, opportunities and projects in the
Tambopata National Reserve. Overnight in Refugio
Amazonas
Day 5: REFUGIO AMAZONAS – PTO MALDONADO
Breakfast. Transfer Boat - Refugio 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.
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Tambopata |
Macaw Clay Licks |
Toucan |
END OF OUR SEVICES
INCLUDES: All hotel and lodge accommodations based on double
occupancy. All scheduled land, lake and river transportation. All
transfers. All scheduled excursions with English-speaking guide
services. All entrance fees. Meals as specified in the itinerary. B=Breakfast;L=Lunch;D=Dinner.
NOT INCLUDED IN THE FEE
Entrance to the protected area of Tambopata (INRENA TAX) is USD $36
per person . International or domestic airfares, airport departure
taxes or visa fees, excess baggage charges, additional nights during
the trip due to flight cancellations, alcoholic and non-alcoholic
beverages or bottled water, snacks, insurance of any kind, laundry,
phone calls, radio calls or messages, reconfirmation of
international flights and items of personal nature. |
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