| Destination: Tambopata Jungle | Altitude: Max. 2,000 m. |
| Trip Style: Jungle Trip | Length: 4D/3N |
| Min. people: 2 pax | Frequency: 1/5 |
Cusco – Tambopata Jungle – Puerto Maldonado
Tambopata National Reserve is a nature reserve in the Peruvian Amazon Basin south of the Madre de Dios River in Tambopata Province’s Inambari and Tambopata districts. It was created on January 26, 1990, to protect the forests adjacent to the rivers Heath and Tambopata that have two important ecosystems and are noted for its biodiversity, representing native flora and fauna with over 1700 species (comprising 127 families and 622 genera) of plants, 103 species of mammals, 1300 species of butterflies and 90 species of amphibians. It has a onside area of 1,478,942 hectares (3,654,550 acres). The Sandoval Lake is located in this area. There is also a circuit of canoeing which is onsidere done of the most exciting and beautiful circuits of Peru. Don’t stay without visiting the Tambopata National Reserve, take advantage and book now this hike, Andean Hikers Peru is waiting for you!
Price US$ 450.00 per person
Itinerary
DAY 01: PUERTO MALDONADO – MADRE DE DIOS RIVER – MALOKA LODGE
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We will pick you up from your accommodation, the airport or from the bus station at Puerto Maldonado, then we have to go to the River Port to board our boat and travel for about 1 hour down the Madre de Dios River, along the river we can start seeing birds like; King fishers, herons, egrets, also we can see kapibaras, aligators, etc. Once we get to the entraces of the Tambopata National Reserve we must register at the Checkpoint, then we will walk around 5 Km. inside the jungle and for it we will provide you rubber boots, we are going to walk for about 1 hour during the hike we will have great opportunity to see animals like monkeys, snakes, anacondas, boas, birds and so on, as if by magic we will arrive at the entrance of the Sandoval Lake from here we take a canoe to cross the lake and once we reach our Maloka lodge where our pirvate rooms, with confortables mattress with mosquitoes net also with private toilets ad shower will be waiting for us. After installing us, we will be ready to eat our delicious lunch, by the afternoon we will do a hiking inside the jungle for about 2 hours in order to see sloths, tortoises, anteaters, wild boars, anacondas, also we will try to see different types of monkeys such as; squirrel monkeys, spider monkeys, pygmy marmoset, etc. After this exploration we return our lodge where our delicious dinner will be ready to recharge energy. During the nighttimewe will do another night walking in order to see the nocturnal wildlife such as: coaties, peccaries, night monkeys, night snakes, spiders, scorpions, tarantules, etc. After an hour hiking in the jungle we have to return to our lodge where our beds will be waiting for us to have a good sleep.
Considerations:
Physical Grading: 2/5
Lodge Altitude: Maloka Lodge 150 masl.= 492 ft.
Weather: Hot and Humid
Weather: Hot and fresh during the night.
DAY 02: MALOKA LODGE – MACAW PALM TREES – SANDOVAL LAKE
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This day we will wake up very early, before breakfast we have to walk inside the jungle for around 1 hour unitl to get a place where there are hundreds of palm tres (Mauritia flexuosa) so many macaws, parrots and parakeets coome to this place attracted to eat the sawdust from this palms that contains sodium, calcium, potassium and other minerals that help this birds in their digestion. After visiting this place, we return our lodge to have breakfast. Around 10:00 am we will board our boat in order to visit the huge Sandoval Lake, where we will have the opportunity to observe the amazing Giant river Otters, there is family of 15 individuals living in this beautiful lak, also we have great opportunity to see, caimans, aligators, hundreds of birds among them; cormorans, egrets, tucans, king fisher, etc, on the shores of the lake we can also observe animals like; kapibaras, monkeys, peccaries, anaacondas, etc, we go back our lodge for lunch, then by the afternoon we can enjoy this beautiful lake swimming in it, don’t worry there is a part of this lake where is allowed to swim far away from the wildlife and close to the shore. During the nighttime after dinner we will do a night visit to this lake in order to see exclusivelly Caimans and aligators because it’s during the night when these reptiles start their activity and it’s easier to find them, after this we return to our lodge where our beds will be waiting for us to have a nice dream.
Considerations:
Physical Grading: 1/5
Lodge Altitude: Maloka Lodge 150 masl.= 492 ft.
Weather: Hot and Humid.
DAY 03: MALOKA LODGE – ZIP LINE – CANOPY BRIDGE – NATIVE FAMILY
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This day is going to be a day with lots of adrenaline because we will do some activities that demand much of this adrenaline. After our breakfast, we need to go back to the entrance of the reserve, to board our boat en we will travel down river for abour 1 hour until to get a place where are installed the zip line and the canopy bridge, doing the zip line you will experience nature from above and you will surely have a great time doing this, then we will walk over the Canopy bridge where you will observe animals of this part of the jungle, you can see monkey, tree snakes, bird nests, epiphytic plants that grow on the branches of trees, etc. after doing these activities, we are ready to board again our boat and travel through the river for 1more hours until to get to a Matsiguenka Family (tribe Matsiguenka), where you will appreciate the lifestyle, their customs, clothes and tipycal dances that this family have to show us, also they are going to teach us to use the bow and arrow to become true survivors of the jungle. When we return our lodge we will do another walking inside the jungle in order to find the biggest tree in the amazon rain forest which is the Ceiba Tree (Ceiba Pentandra) this tree can reach up to 60 meters in height or 197 feet. From the branches of this tree hang long lianas that we can use to balance and believe for a moment as tarzan the king of the jungle, after this we have to return to our lodge for dinner and after dinner we can do another night walking to try to see more wildlife.
Considerations:
Physical Grading: 1/5
Lodge Altitude: Maloka Lodge 150 masl.= 492 ft.
Weather: Hot and Humid.
DAY 04: MALOKA LODGE – MADRE DE DIOS RIVER – PUERTO MALDONADO
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After our breakfast, we will do a birdwatching around the Sandoval Lake, then we have to prepare us to go out of the Tambopata reserve, we leave the reserve after the lunch, we walk back for 1 hour until to get the entrance then we board our boat and we travel by boat for 1 more hour until to get to the port of Puerto Maldonado where our transport will be waitiing for us to take us to our Hotel, to the airport or to the bus station.
Considerations:
Physical Grading: 1/5
Puerto Maldonado Altitude: 183 masl.= 600 ft.
Weather: Hot and Humid.
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Inclusions
Includes
- Bilingual and certified Tour Guide.
- A briefing about the trip with your guide the day before
- Pick up from your accomodation
- Round Trip Cruz del Sur Bus (If you book the tour from Cusco)
- Entrances and Permits for the Tambopata National Reserve
- All entrance fees of the places to visit.
- 3 nights Lodging
- Rooms, private toilets and showers in the Lodge
- Confortable Mattress and mosquito nets
- 3 Meals per day during the trip (in the Lodge)
- Mineral water to drinking everyday (In the Lodge)
- Availability of meals to your preference (vegetarian, vegan, pesquetarian, etc)
- Rubber boots to walk inside the Jungle
- Boat to move along the River
- Boat driver and assistant
- First Aid Kit
- Survivor T – Shirt.
Doesn’t Include
- Extra expense if you want to buy things along the trip
- First Breakfast and last dinner.
- Tips for the team ( Is not obligatory but if you wish to do it, it will be welcome).
You Need to Bring
YOU NEED TO BRING
- Original Passport
- Student Card
- Travel Insurance card (you have to le tus know the name of your Travel Insurance company and you travel Insurance number
- Day Pack
- Rain coat or Rain Poncho
- Cold Clothes (For the night bus)
- Waterproof hiking shoes
- Bottle of Water
- Flash Light
- Towel
- Toilet Paper
- Sun Block
- Sun Glasses
- Caps or Hats
- Sandals
- Insect Repellent (50% DEET Recommended)
- Rain Pants
- Medicines for Personal Use
- Personal use stuff (Face moisturizer, Handsanitizer, Toothbrush and paste,etc)
- Camera with extra bateries
- Extra money, especially in soles, to buy extra necessities during the trekking, also to tip the team.
Price
OUR FIXED PRICES 2018 – 2022 IN A SHARING GROUP UP TO 10 PEOPLE
| 2 people group | US$ 450.00 per person |
| 3 people group | US$ 430.00 per person |
| 4 people group | US$ 400.00 per person |
| 5 people to more | US$ 380.00 per person |
OUR FIXED PRICES 2018 – 2022 IN PRIVATE GROUP ONLY FOR YOU AND YOUR PARTY
| 2 people group | US$ 550.00 per person |
| 3 people group | US$ 520.00 per person |
| 4 people group | US$ 500.00 per person |
| 5 people to more | US$ 450.00 per person |
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