Arrival and Reception by Your Guide. Our guides are biologists, tourism professionals, or community members. Unless noted otherwise, our guides speak English. We assign guides at a 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 from the Airport to our 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.

Puerto Maldonado to Tambopata River Port. Skirting Puerto Maldonado, we drive 20 kilometres to the Tambopata River Port, entering the Native Community of Infierno. The port is a local community venture.

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.

Posada Amazonas is a Rustic 30 Bedroom First-Class Community Partnership Eco-lodge that is Jointly Owned with the Ese-Eja Community of Infierno.

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 thirty-metre high scaffolding canopy tower. A staircase with banister running through the middle provides safe access to the platforms above. From on top 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 specie 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 at Posada Amazonas.

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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 metres 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 from forest plants and administers them to patients who choose their small clinic. They have designed 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 at Posada Amazonas.

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Breakfast

Transfer by Boat from Posada Amazonas to the Tambopata River Port.

Transfer from the Tambopata River Port to our Puerto Maldonado Headquarters.

Transfer from our Puerto Maldonado Headquarters to the 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.

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Cost per person sharing double, twin or triple room: US$355

Single (if you do not wish to share accommodation): US$455

Included: All meals, accommodation, and services as detailed above, all river transportation, as well as transfers from and to the airport in Puerto Maldonado.

Not Included: International or domestic airfares, airport departure taxes or visa fees, excess baggage charges, additional nights during the trip due to flight cancellations, alcoholic beverages or bottled water, snacks, insurance of any kind, laundry, phone calls or messages, reconfirmation of flights and items of a personal nature.

We reserve the right to change the order of activities or trails due to weather or other local conditions

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A number of add-on activities are available at the different lodges, please contact me for more details and to confirm availability:

At Posada Amazonas

Sea Kayaking the Chonta Creek, cost US$170pp maximum 10 people.
We head back to the Native Community of Infierno. Transportation will be waiting for us at the Tambopata River Port and will bring us to a creek within the Community named Chonta. We will descent this creek for approximately 90 minutes as we will reach the Tambopata River, where we will be picked up and brought back to the lodge. This creek has suffered little human impact and we could be able to see different species of birds and with luck even some smaller monkey species. In the lower parts of the creek we might meet some local fishermen.

Cycling to Puerto Maldonado at the end of the program, Cost US$60per person, max. 10 people. Change the engine for pedals and ride back to Puerto Maldonado on a mountain-bike. An early boat will take you to the Tambopata River Port in the Native Community of Infierno. From there you will bike back the 20-kilometre road to Puerto Maldonado that has short slopes and presents little technical difficulty, but it will be hot and sweaty. At our Puerto Maldonado Office a shower will await you. Afterwards you will be driven to the airport. This activity is always subject to airline departure times.

Canopy Climbing up a 30m High Tree, cost US$40per person, maximum 10 people.
Replicating the daily work of macaw researchers, we will climb a 30-metre high tree with a rope, harness and jumar. From this vantage point we will have a macaws eye view of the forest. This demanding exercise is perfectly safe and requires no previous experience.

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