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Peru Amazon Jungle Tours: This adventurous 7-day pack-rafting trip has all the ingredients of a legendary and enduring journey. The itinerary starts out with a drive over a 15,000 ft. pass; and then continues down the Tambopata River, river pack-rafting and camping out each night. Excellent opportunities for spotting wildlife comes with the territory in this remote section of the Amazon jungle . This is an exciting trip for adventurous travelers who don’t mind roughing it for a few days at a time. After arriving in Cusco, the expedition starts in the town of Puerto Maldonado. A private vehicle will take you across the high plains ( altiplano ), down to tropical rainforest and to the end of the road; where you’ll lodge by the river. The following day you´ll board pack-rafts and use the river as a thoroughfare into the jungle.
From this point, you leave behind the farms and gold pan settlers to enter the mystical and enigmatic world of the tropical rainforest . This environment provides the habitat for a diverse range of plant and animal species; including 8 types of macaw, 13 types of monkey, 530 species of birds, plus ocelot, jaguar, capybara, tapir, caiman, giant river otters, and much more. You´ll raft on the Tambopata & Tavara River for 4 days; camping out at night. The journey includes stops at a macaw & mammal clay lick; allowing you to see these magnificent animals at dawn. Afterwards, from here you’ll take a motorized dug-out canoe to the frontier town of Puerto Maldonado; where you’ll spend the night before transferring to Cusco for your final night. This is the end of your Peru Amazon Jungle tour, but it’s never goodbye, only until the next time we meet!
Included
Breakfast x 6 Lunch x 7 Dinner x 6
Private Transport – collection & drop-off
Professional bilingual guide
Professional rafting & camping equipment
Domestic flights from Cusco to Puerto Maldonado
Domestic flights from Puerto Maldonado to Cusco
Excluded
Extension trips to Machu Picchu (can be included on request)
Tips for crew Any additional extras.
Flying out of Cusco to Puerto Maldonado . Morning collection from the airport, bus station or your hotel. You'll have 2 hrs by car, the first part will be by the high way and the second part will be in a dirt route until arriving to the Tambopata River near the limit to the Tambopata Nacional Reserve. Our boat will be waiting for us to take us 2 hrs up the Tambopata river to reach the first campsite, close to a chuncho macaw clay lick. Travelling along the Tambopata river, where you'll have very good opportunities to spot rare shore birds, Capybaras, White caimans, and possibly a Jaguar or an Anaconda, there is a 20% probability to see these by the river bank. Getting to our destination, Tambopata chuncho clay lick. you'll have the first chances to explore the area. After that, we make our camp, dinner and rest. Accommodation: Camping Meals: Lunch, Dinner
Rising at around 5:00am, after taking some hot drinks you'll then take our boat up the Tambopata for 10 min. Arriving at the clay lick, parrots accompanied by green, red, blue, yellow and scarlet macaws, blue headed macaws and the red bellied macaw, birds all around us, flying and making loud noises, it will be spectacular to witness this behavior of these birds. You'll spend from 5:30 am to 10:00 am approx. Our breakfast will be in front of the tambopata clay lick activity. At the end of this activity, on our way up the Tambopata river you'll take a short stop to get an unforgettable swimming in the stream or may be in the Tambopata River. Afterwards this continuing toward our next campsite. After lunch trekking to the Tambopata Research Center . You'll go for an introductory walk in primary forest full of huge tress, lianas and vines, at the same time understanding about important economic activities in this region. Chances to spot some spider monkeys, Brown capuchin monkeys, squirrel monkeys or pecaries will be always possible. Next we’ll go back to our campsite to have our dinner. Accommodation: Camping Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Leaving mid-morning you'll travel until near to the end of the Tavara River ; camping close to the Candamo River . In this part of the amazon there are no communities, it’s considered virgin jungle because, it is a protected area. Setting up camp, there will be fishing in the evening to help make our dinner. Accommodation: Camping Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Leaving after breakfast to Candamo river where you’ll begin to go down stream by kayak along the Candamo and Tavara rivers . This part of the river is very good to do kayak because the river currents can be very fast. Accommodation: Camping Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Today you'll kayak for few hours, then at the mouth of the Tavara river you'll deflate the rafts and take a motorized boat to go to a our lodge for the last night. Arriving to our lodge at the lunch time. After that you’ll walk through the jungle for approximately 3 hrs to visit and observe the mammal clay lick. Accommodation: Camping Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
After breakfast you’ll depart to Puerto Maldonado by boat and car, in time to make your connecting domestic flight to Cusco. It's never goodbye, only until the next time!! Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
$ 1,155.00
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