Tambopata Macaw Clay Lick one exclusive tours. Designed offer broad insight life traditions Peruvian Amazon jungle. Make hassle-free journey, transfer Puerto Maldonado airport bus terminal.
Tambopata National Reserve home various distinct species plants, animals, birds. See six-day tour local naturalist guide. 650 varieties birds 1500 species butterflies Tambopata National Park.
Eight species red green, blue yellow macaws, including scarlet macaws Tambopata. Gathering macaws Chuncho must-see spectacle.
Located banks Tambopata River, Chuncho world’s largest macaw clay lick. Different macaws parrots gather eat clay cliff. Clay distinctive mineral helps birds detoxify bodies.
Tambopata home Ese Eja indigenous groups. Ese Eja Quechua term people. Fringes modernity maintain ancient traditions customs. Infierno, Palma Real, Sonene three Ese Eja communities Tambopata.
People rely agriculture hunting daily bread. Tourism companies like ours started provide employment opportunities. Entire support team Tambopata Ese Eja community.
Tour guides local region. Born raised area, extensive knowledge life flora fauna.
Join groups, couple, solo traveler experience best Amazon jungle. Exclusive six-day tour English-speaking local tour guide.
09:00 AM, transfer boat dock Puerto Acosta. Board motorized boat 30-minute journey. Sail Madre de Dios River exclusive Paradise Amazon Ecolodge.
Team assist check-in process. Short rest, embark tour Tambopata National Reserve.
Start short 200-meter walk lodge Canopy Tower. 35 meters high built base massive Lupuna Tree. Tree represents Amazon enormous size.
Day, observe various bird species. Local expert provide detailed explanations flora fauna area.
Enjoyed canopy walk, zip-line forest. Local instructor provide safety tips share information get activity. Set, glide 190-meter zip-line.
Monitors meet assist crossing small 100m bridge. Return starting point zip-line.
Experience, return lodge lunch. Team serve authentic Amazonian meal. Lunch, time relax hammocks lodge.
Early afternoon, embark kayaking adventure. Kayaks lodge. Team assist equipping necessary safety equipment.
Ready, start experience. Safety boat follow ensure travelers manage well.
Opportunity cool Amazon heat dip cool waters Madre de Dios River.
Enjoying kayaking, return boat 15-minute downstream trip Monkey Island. Name suggests, island home different monkey species.
Group capuchin monkeys, black monkeys (Cebus apella), white monkeys (Cebus albifrons), others. Species friendlier nature. Accompanied local expert, close. Feed observing coexistence Tambopata National Reserve.
Experience, return lodge 04:30 p.m. Witness sunset Amazon.
Sunset, embark boat ride equipped spotlights headlights spot caimans. Lights reflecting eyes make easier spot night.
White caimans dwarf caimans.
07:30 PM, return lodge dinner well-deserved rest.
Wake birdsong. Team serve delicious Amazonian breakfast. Traditional breakfast consists fresh fruit juice, cup freshly brewed Peruvian coffee, eggs, pancakes, fried bananas, more.
09:30 morning, boat cross river reach control post. Details visitor recorded local authorities. Embark one-hour, three-kilometer hike Sandoval Lake.
Hike, opportunity observe different varieties flora fauna. See giant river otters mammals animals.
Shores Sandoval Lake, serve delicious lunch amidst jungle. Rowboat sail center lake observe birds mammals.
Region home hoatzins, cormorants, anhingas. Occasionally, travelers seen iconic “playful river otters”. Immersive view life Sandoval Lake, return lodge.
06:30 p.m., embark hike varieties nocturnal creatures protected area. Guide explain detail.
07:30 p.m., return lodge dinner.
Wake Amazonian breakfast. 08:00 morning, walk native community. Firsthand view way life.
Visiting indigenous family ancient warriors hunters. Witness ancestral traditions customs.
Known paintings. Wish, buy.
Visiting native family, embark boat ride creek countryside fishing. Lake home different types fish, catfish, maidens, sardines, piranhas.
Bring fish lodge, chef cook traditional spices lunch.
Afternoon free. Relax hammocks de-stress world’s largest tropical rainforest.
Serve dinner evening.
Year, biodiversity Reserve studied better understand preserve flora fauna area.
2001, agroforestry system initiated 2000 m2 plot example sustainable agriculture reforestation.
Mahogany, cedar, tropical flowers, fruits. Grown create productive forest allows recovery area sustainable use. Project aims provide sustainable alternative land use local communities.
2004, wild animals received local authority. Animals confiscated people took forest.
Animals arrive injured, sick, malnourished enter rehabilitation program. Volunteers utmost give necessary qualities return natural habitat, promoting recovery local fauna.
2005, CANOPY WALKWAY built. 90 m suspended bridge platform. Built 300-year-old Lupuna tree 45 m ground.
Highest natural observation point jungle. Staff volunteers use bird monitoring points.
TARICAYA TURTLE PROJECT: 2006, Turtle Repopulation project initiated
Taricaya save endangered species. Local people extract eggs consumption sale. Staff volunteers collect eggs July September plant artificial beaches Reserve.
Wait eggs hatch October November. Release turtles natural habitat.
2010, butterfly house created learn biology animals. Locals manage sustainably alternative using wildlife commercial purposes.
2001, working various local communities. Includes Juan Pablo Peasant Association Native Community Palma Real. Assist environmental education programs natural resource management.
Depart 8:30 morning AMAZON ECO LODGE PARADISE. 2-hour journey.
First hour interoceanic route unpaved road reach banks Tambopata River. Boat motorist waiting transport approximately 30 minutes upstream “COLLPAS TAMBOPATA INN” Lodge.
Way, opportunity see riverside birds, capybaras, white alligators. Arrival Lodge. Crew serve welcome drink give brief description services stay.
Provide respective room, walk better recognition place.
Lunch, walk primary forest full ancient trees. Guide provide information region’s important economic activities. Includes agriculture, mining, logging, chestnut Brazil nut collection, ecotourism.
Opportunity observe monkeys mammals natural habitat.
Return sunset pick flashlights. Evening, go observe alligators, capybaras. See feline near river night looking hunt.
Dinner, energy, short night walk. Observe insects, arachnids, tarantulas, snake, armadillo, night monkey, tapir near Lodge.
Last day tour starts early morning. Cup freshly made Peruvian coffee, continue upstream 5:00 am hour. Witness sunrise boat ride.
Landscape spectacular, forget… 20% chance seeing jaguar. Travelers often see anacondas shores Tambopata National Reserve.
Reaching destination, spectacle parrots macaws. Guide explain reasons birds, many mammals, need clay daily diet.
Spectacular show entertains 6:00 am 11:00 am. Delicious breakfast front Chuncho Collpa.
Enjoyed Macaw Collpa, visit control post. Houses small museum. Deeper insight life macaws parrots.
Continue lodge lunch.
Lunch, visit Quebrada el Gato waterfall. Refreshing bath. Know products grown rich land Madre de Dios.
Dawn, canoe down 20 minutes river. 4X4 two-hour ride back Puerto Maldonado
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