3 days / 2 nights
RESERVA AMAZONICA LODGE
Journey to Tambopata National Reserve offers a range of land and river excursions that introduce you to the magic of the Southern Amazon rainforest. Experience the wonder of this magic place. Create your own nature encounters from different excursions in a range of three intensity levels, some ideal for children, while others are for the more intrepid. Upon arrival, schedule your guided excursions (subject to weather, depending on your desired activity) with an Interpreter, who will also provide basic equipment and snacks.
Day 1: Arrive Puerto Maldonado
Arrive Puerto Maldonado and check-in at Inkaterra Butterfly Farm. Land transfer to boarding wharf. Begin rainforest experience on a 45-minute boat ride along the Madre de Dios River. Arrive at Inkaterra Reserva Amazonica lodge. After a short briefing, settle into your beautiful cabaña and then enjoy lunch in the dining room. After an evening tea, enjoy guided walk along the Trail system in the Inkaterra Reserva Amazonica natural area. In the night enjoy Twilight River excursion. You may wish to join a talk about your first day experience of life in the rainforest. Overnight at the Lodge. (LD)
Day 2: Amazon Jungle excursions
After breakfast enjoy nature at its fullest; Sandoval Lake excursion into the Tambopata National Reserve. Return to the Inkaterra lodge for lunch. After lunch – take Inkaterra Canopy Walk. You may wish to extend your excursion to appreciate the sunset from one of the towers. Evening cocktails in the main dining room at the lodge. Overnight at the Lodge. (BLD)
Day 3 Depart Puerto Maldonado
After breakfast a 45-minute return boat trip on the Madre de Dios River to Puerto Maldonado. Transfer to airport. (B)
SANDOVAL LAKE LODGE
Located deep in Peru’s Tambopata National Reserve, Sandoval Lake lodge overlooks sparkling, palm-rimmed Sandoval Lake, the most beautiful and wildlife-rich of all lakes in Tambopata-Madidi. This privileged location gives you exclusive access to the lake early in the morning and late afternoon, for wildlife viewing and photography.
Day 1: Arrive Puerto Maldonado
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 we reach a small canal where we 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, we transfer to a catamaran and are leisurely paddled across half the lake to the lodge.
After lunch, once again board the catamaran and set off to explore 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 return to the canoes to look for the large and extremely rare Black Caimans. Enjoy a clear starlit night, your will also be able to float in the middle of the lake and marvel at the brilliance of the sky. (D)
Day 2 Amazon Jungle excursions
A pre-dawn wake-up call will enable 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 set off into the cool 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 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. (BLD)
Day 3: Depart Puerto Maldonado
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.
