Rainforest Tour 4 days
Rainforest Tour 4 days
$899
4 Days
10 PEOPLE
17+ YEARS
HIKING WILDLIFE WATCHING
- Wildlife Watching, Hiking
- According arrival time
- Pick up from the airport or bus station to our lodge.
- Lodge
- Meals
- Official Tour Guide
- River Transport
- Canoe on the lake
- Rain Plastic
- First Aid Kit
- Entrance Ticket to the Tambopata National Reserve $20 dollars
- Cap or hat
- Sunscreem
- Mosquito repellent
- Flash light
- Drinks
- Tips
- Air/bus tickets
TOUR PLAN
01
Transfer from Puerto Maldonado airport to the river port on the Madre de Dios River Next, We will take our motor boat and we are going to go down river Madre de Dios until Sandoval lake port. From here the trail takes you on a
2-miles (3,2-kilometers) walk through secondary forest, until we reach a small canal where we board canoes and we will go across half the lake to the lodge Sandoval home stay.
After lunch and a brief rest to avoid the early afternoon heat, Then we once again board our canoe and set off to explore the 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. This macaw species is found locally in parts of
the Amazon, always living in flooded palm forests such as the beautiful palm stand at Sandoval Lake. At 500-800 birds, this flock of macaws at Sandoval Lake is currently the largest reported in the world for this highly-specialized macaw.
As night falls we will look for the large and extremely rare Black Caimans. If it is a clear starlit night, we will also be able to float in the middle of the lake to marvel at the brilliance of the sky and listen to the sounds of the forest.
We return to the lodge for the dinner. At any point, you could step out from the bar to admire the wide variety of nocturnal moths, beetles and praying mantis attracted to our black light in the lodge clearing.
For those with lots of energy, our guide will take you on a short night-walk into the forest behind the lodge. (L,D)
02
A pre-dawn wake-up call will enable us to be on the lake for sunrise and a hopeful encounter with the family of Giant Otters who frequent the lake and are most active at this time of day. Sandoval Lake offers abundant wildlife including over 40 species of birds resident to its lake margins, 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, of the prehistoric- looking Hoatzins, These are easy to observe and also photograph from the paddled canoes. After returning for a late breakfast we set off into the cool under story of the 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 and an hour or so to relax we 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 who live in the forest near the lake, such as the brown Capuchin Monkey and Squirrel Monkey.
We will leave after dinner to try and spot some Black Caimans on the lake, or to go on a short night walk through the primary forest. (B,L,D)
03
After a dawn breakfast, we will cross the lake by canoe and take a short walk into the interior of the Mauritia palm forest to stand beneath and closely view the impressive morning congregations, this place has a very interesting concentration of parrots, parakeets and large and small macaws that can be observed using dead Mauritia palm trees, them are resident nesters (Yellow headed Parrot, Mealy Parrot, Blue headed Parrot, Scarlet Macaw, blue and Yellow Macaw, Red and Green Macaw, Chestnut fronted Macaw, Dusky headed Parakeet, Red bellied Macaw, Cobalt winged Parakeet,Tui Parakeet).
Returning from the macaw show we will cross the lake to explore a primary forest trail and admire the impressive ancient rainforest trees and lianas with our knowledgeable resident naturalist guide. As we walk, the forest will be brought to life as your guide explains the ecology of the rain forest and its diverse flora and fauna.
We return for lunch, and then will pack to go our next lodge, Which is on the river madre de dios border. This one is close to the parrot clay lick.
After dinner, we´ll go on a short night hike through the forest. (B,L,D
04
Early in the morning we will take the boat to visit the parrot clay lick, a wall of earth (clay) on one side of the Madre de Dios River, where different species come down to the wall to eat this special e essential clay needed for the metabolism, there we can observe more than five species of parrots such as, blue headed parrot, dusky headed parakeet, mealy parrot and the elusive blue headed macaw, other macaw like the chestnut fronted can be observed too. We´re going to see different tipes of parrots than we saw at the lake Sandoval. We´ll return to puerto Maldonado to have breakfast.
Please not that the program may vary slightly so as to maximize your wildlife sightings, depending on the reports of our experienced naturalist guides based at the lodge.
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