Multiday Tours Peru
Tambopata National Reserve (3 Days / 2 Nights)
Valid until 30.12.08
Departure : daily
Rates in USD per pax with the following hotel options or similar
- Transfer from and to the airport
- Full board
- Overnights at Sandoval Lodge
- Entrance fees
- Excursions mentioned
| DOUBLE | SINGLE SUPPLEMENT | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Days / 2 Nights | 225 | 100 |
The lush green opulence of the Peruvian rain forest, filled with extraordinary scents and sounds, lies only 2g flights minutes away from Cusco. The natural reserve Tambopata and the National Parks Bahuaja Sonene and Madidi lie on boarder to Bolivia and represent the world's largest pristine rainforest. Home to a breathtaking variety of plants and animals, it is also a haven for the Amazon's largest, most spectacular and most endangered predators - the Jaguar, the Giant Otter, the Harpy Eagle and the Black Caiman.
DAY 1 PUERTO MALDONADO - SANDOVAL LODGE
Transfer from Puerto Maldonado airport to the river port on the Madre de Dios River. A 25 minutes journey down the Madre de Dios River by motor canoe, brings you to the end of the trail in to Sandoval Lake Lodge. From here the trail takes you on a 2-mile walk/or rickshaw ride through secondary forest, until you reach a small canal, where you board canoes and are paddled 220 yards through a flooded forest of 100-foot tall Mauritia palms. As the canal opens onto the shimmering surface of the lake, you are transferred to a catamaran and paddled across half the lake to the lodge.
After lunch and a brief rest, to avoid the early afternoon heat, we once again board the catamaran and set off to explore the entire west end of the lake. Here, in the flooded palm forest we drift to the sounds of hundreds of Red-Bellied Macaws, as they return to the palm forest for the night. We return to the lodge around nightfall for dinner. After dinner we will return to the canoes to look for the large and extremely rare Black Caimans. If it is a clear starlit night, we will also be able to float in the middle of the lake and marvel at the brilliance of the sky.
DAY 2 FOREST
A pre-dawn wake-up call will enable us to be on the lake for sunrise and a hopeful encounter with the family of Giant Otters which frequent the lake and are most active at this time of day. Most of the fish-eating water birds around the lake actively fish in the early morning as well, and this outing should provide excellent views, and photographs, of the prehistoric- looking Hoatzins. After returning for a late breakfast we set off into the cool understory of the tall virgin forest near the lake to see some towering wild Brazil Nut trees and a demonstration of how our hosts collect, open and commercialize this important natural product.
After lunch and an hour or so to relax we once again board the catamaran to explore the eastern part of the lake, where we might see one or more of the five species of monkeys which live in the forest near the lake, such as the Brown Capuchin Monkey. There is a final chance after dinner to try and spot some Black Caimans on the lake, or to go on a short night walk through the primary forest.
DAY 3 PUERTO MALDONADO - NEXT DESTINATION
After a dawn breakfast we take a final, shorter paddle around the west end of the lake to try and glimpse the Giant Otters before returning to Puerto Maldonado to catch the flight to Lima.
