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4 days/3 nights Program - US$ 460.00
Refugio Amazonas Lodge is a 30 room lodge located in the 1.5 million hectare Tambopata-National Reserve in southeastern Amazonian Peru. With your English speaking guide you will explore the many trails and observation areas in this pristine Amazonian rainforest. Natural attractions include an oxbow lake with giant river otters, mammal clay licks, small monkeys, and hundreds of bird species. The canopy tower provides easy access to one of the world's final biological frontiers: the rain forest canopy. Opportunities for cultural interaction with an Ese'eja: guided activities include ethno botanical walks, visits to small scale farms, Brazil nut camp and other experiences we are developing in association with our local partners. For those interested in traveling deeper into the Amazonian rainforest you can extend your stay and visit the Tambopata Research Center located in the Tambopata National Reserve.
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Day 1
Puerto Maldonado - Refugio Amazonas
Refugio Amazonas Lodge is a 30 room lodge located in the 1.5 million hectare Tambopata-National Reserve in southeastern Amazonian Peru. With your English speaking guide you will explore the many trails and observation areas in this pristine Amazonian rainforest. Natural attractions include an oxbow lake with giant river otters, mammal clay licks, small monkeys, and hundreds of bird species. The canopy tower provides easy access to one of the world's final biological frontiers: the rain forest canopy. Opportunities for cultural interaction with an Ese'eja: guided activities include ethno botanical walks, visits to small scale farms, Brazil nut camp and other experiences we are developing in association with our local partners. For those interested in traveling deeper into the Amazonian rainforest you can extend your stay and visit the Tambopata Research Center located in the Tambopata National Reserve.
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Note: 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.
Day 2
Refugio Amazonas
After an early breakfast we depart for the Condenado oxbow lake. The hike will take us about 40 minutes each way. 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. Later in the morning we return to the lodge for lunch.
After lunch we walk to the port to board our boat. Five minutes downriver from the lodge lays a farm owned and managed by charismatic Don Manuel from the neighboring community of Condenado. He grows a variety of popular and unknown Amazon crops - just about every plant and tree you see serves a purpose. He has also identified and cultivated many of the medicinal plants used in the region in a little backyard garden.
Later in the afternoon and only a few minutes hike from the lodge there 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. Our guide will demonstrate the whole harvesting process of one of the only sustainable harvested products in the rainforest. Later in the morning we return to the lodge for dinner.
After dinner you will have an option of going out on a night walk. Great chance to see nocturnal mammals and dart and brightly colored arrow frogs.
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Day 3
Refugio Amazonas
After an early breakfast we depart the lodge to visit the parrot and parakeet clay lick. A fifteen minute boat ride and sixty minute walk from Refugio Amazonas is a clay lick used both by parrots and parakeets. From a blind you will see parrots and parakeets descend on most clear days to ingest the clay on a bank. Species such as Dusky headed and Cobalt winged Parakeet descend at this clay lick. With luck we will also see some or all of the following species in the early morning rush: Mealy and Yellow-crowned Amazons, Blue-headed Pionus, Severe macaw and Orange-cheeled (Barraband`s) Parrot. We visit the lick at dawn, when parrots are most active.
From the clay lick we return to the lodge and hike to a peccary clay lick located only 20 minutes from the lodge. These wild rain forest pigs show up in herds of five to twenty individuals to eat clay in the late morning. Chances of spotting them are around 15%, but well worth the short hike. Other wildlife also shows up including deer, guan and parakeets. We return to the lodge for lunch.
After lunch and time to relax we depart for the 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. After our visit to the tower we return to the lodge for dinner.
After dinner we offer lectures prepared by the staff of Refugio Amazonas cover conservation threats, opportunities and projects in the Tambopata National Reserve.
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Day 4
Refugio Amazonas-Puerto Maldonado
After an early breakfast we will return to Puerto Maldonado for our flight back to Lima or Cuzco.
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Cost Per Person: Single supplement applies for people traveling alone.
Includes: Programs based on double occupancy. Includes all meals, accommodations and services, all river transportation, and transfer from and to the Airport of 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, radio calls or messages, reconfirmation of flights and items of personal nature. Tips.
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.
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CHANGE THE ORDER OF THE ACTIVITIES OR CHANGE TRAILS DEPENDING ON THEIR CONDITION DUE TO WEATHER OR EXTENSIVE USE.
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