Macaw Clay Lick & Lake Sandoval 3 days
Macaw Clay Lick & Lake Sandoval 3 days
$450
3 Days
15 PEOPLE
17+ YEARS
HIKING WILDLIFE WATCHING
- Wildlife Watching, Hiking
- According arrival time
- Pick up from the airport or bus station to our lodge.
- Lodging
- Meals
- Official Tour Guide
- River Transport
- Canoeing on the lake
- First Aid Kit
- Rubber boots
- Entrance Ticket to the Tambopata National Reserve $20 dollars
- Cap or hat
- Sunscreem
- Mosquito repellent
- Flash light
- Drinks
- Tipping
- Air/bus tickets
TOUR PLAN
01
We will start at 9:45 am. We can pass to pick you up from your hotel, bus station or airport. We will have 2 hour by car (taxi), the first part will be by the highway and the second part will be in a dirt route until we get to the Tambopata River near the limit to the Tambopata National Reserve. Our boat will be waiting for us to take us 25 minutes up the Tambopata river to get to our lodge, near to Chuncho Clay Lick, we will have good chances to spot capybaras and many shore birds along the river bank. Getting to the lodge we will get a welcome drink and the manager will explain us all we need to know about our lodge and its around. After lunch we will go for an introductory walk, first in a secondary grow forest and then in a primary forest full of huge trees and lianas and vines, at the same time we will talk about the most important economic activities in this region. Chances to spot Howler Monkeys, wild pigs “peccaries”, some Brown capuchin monkeys and squirrel monkeys will be always possible. When is getting dark we will come back to our lodge to get our torch and go to our boat and we will do one of the most exciting activities… it will be Cayman spotting, we will go to look for White and black Caymans “alligators” along the river bank with a big spot light, we might see more capybaras and we always have good chances to spot an ocelot or a jaguar along the river bank.
02
We will wake up around 5:00 am, we will get a tea or coffee to get some energy and we will take our boat up the Tambopata river for 1 hour, crossing the check point. We will have all the sunrise just for us in the boat, and we will have really good chances to spot capybaras (the largest rodent worldwide), tapir, and you could even see the most beautiful feline in South America – “The Jaguar”. Many of our clients are witnesses with photographic evidence of encounters with this beautiful mammal. I like to say it, we have a 20% of probabilities to see one of these guys by the river bank. Getting to our destination, The Tambopata clay lick, we will take a seat as close as we are allowed and we will get a show at the clay lick: parrots and macaws – green, red, blue and yellow birds all around us, flying and making loud noises. It will be spectacular – this behavior of the birds. We will explain the reason why every day the whole year around these birds go to the cliff to eat clay. We will spend from 6:30 am to 11:00 am approx. Our breakfast will be in front of the Tambopata clay lick activity. At the end of this activity, we will come back to our lodge to get an unforgettable swimming in the stream or maybe in the Tambopata River. We will get our lunch and then we´re going to repack to come back to Puerto Maldonado to go after that to Sandoval Lake. We´re going to go down river Madre de Dios until Sandoval Lake port. From here the trail takes you on a 2 miles (3 kilometers) walk through secondary forest, until we reach a small canal where we board canoes and we´ll go across half the lake to the lodge. We leave after dinner, we´ll go to make a short night walk through primary forest.
03
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 understory 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. We return for lunch, and then we will pack to go back to Puerto Maldonado.
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