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Day Tambopata Itinerary
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.
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
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 active at dawn, during the late mornings
and mid-afternoons.
Breakfast.
Ceiba
Trail Hike: We leave from the lobby at Posada Amazonas and
embark on a two hour hike crowned by the largest tree in the
vicinity: a giant ceiba tree. During the hike we will focus
on the natural history of the rain forest and its principal
taxonomic groups.
Lunch.
Farm
Visit. A thirty minute boat drive downriver takes us to the
most complete farm in the community of Infierno. The owner
grows a diverse variety of popular and unknown Amazon crops.
In his garden, just about every plant and tree serves a purpose.
Dinner.
Overnight
in Posada Amazonas
Day
4
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.
Price:
from 325.00 USD per person.
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