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    6D5N TAMBOPATA RESEARCH CENTER - Jaguar Float / Wild Planet

    1N POSADA AMAZONAS
    1N REFUGIO AMAZONAS
    3N TRC

    DIA 1

    Arrival & Reception by Private Guide


    Our guides are tourism professionals, or community members. Unless noted
    otherwise, our guides speak English. If you would like a guide in a language other
    than English please let us know.

    Transfer Airport to Puerto Maldonado Headquarters


    Upon arrival from Lima or Cusco, we will welcome you at the airport and drive you
    ten minutes to our Puerto Maldonado headquarters. While enjoying your first taste of
    the forest in our gardens we will ask you to pack only the necessary gear for your
    next few days, and leave the rest at our safe deposit. This helps us keep the boats
    and cargo light.

    Transfer Pto Maldonado Headquarters to Tambopata River Port


    Skirting Puerto Maldonado, we drive 20 kilometers to the Tambopata River Port,
    entering the Native Community of Infierno. The port is a communal business.

    Transfer Boat - Tambopata River Port to Posada Amazonas


    The forty five minute boat ride from the Tambopata Port to Posada Amazonas will take
    us into the Community´s Primary Forest Private Reserve.

    Boxed Lunch

    Orientation
    Upon arrival, the lodge manager will welcome you and brief you with important
    navigation and security tips.

    Ethnobotanical Tour
    A twenty minute boat drive downriver leads you to a trail designed by the staff of the
    Centro Ñape. The Centro Ñape is a communal organization that produces medicines
    out of forest plants and administers them to patients who choose their little clinic.
    They have produced a trail which explains the different medicinal (and other) uses of
    selected plants.

    Dinner

    Ecotourism Lecture
    A daily presentation on the Infierno ecotourism project is available every night from a
    staff member.

    Posada Amazonas - Overnight


    DAY 2

    Breakfast

    Tres Chimbadas Oxbow Lake


    Tres Chimbadas is thirty minutes by boat and forty five minutes hiking from Posada
    Amazonas. Once there you will paddle around the lake in a catamaran, searching for
    the resident family of nine giant river otters (seen by 60% of our lake visitors) and
    other lakeside wildlife such as caiman, hoatzin and horned screamers. Otters are most
    active from dawn to eight or nine AM.

    Transfer Private Boat - Posada Amazonas to Refugio Amazonas


    The one hour and forty five minute boat ride from Posada Amazonas to Refugio
    Amazonas will take us past the Community of Infierno and the Tambopata National
    Reserve´s checkpoint into the buffer zone of this 1.3 million hectare conservation
    unit.

    Lunch

    Brazil Nut Trail and Camp


    A few minutes hike from the lodge is a beautiful old growth patch of Brazil Nut forest
    that has been harvested for decades (if not centuries) where the precarious remains
    of a camp used two months a year by Brazil Nut gatherers can still be experienced.
    We will be demonstrating the whole process of the rain forest's only sustainably
    harvested product from collection through transportation to drying.

    Mammal Clay Lick


    Twenty minutes walking from Refugio Amazonas is a peccary clay lick. These wild rain
    forest pigs show up in herds of five to twenty individuals to eat clay in the late
    morning. Chances of spotting them are around 15%, but well worth the short hike.
    Other wildlife also shows up including deer, guan and parakeets.

    Dinner

    Jungle Night Walk


    Our Jungle Night Walk gives you the once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the nocturnal
    wonders of the Amazon Rainforest.

    Refugio Amazonas - Overnight

    DAY 3

    Breakfast

    Canopy Tower
    A thirty minute walk from Refugio Amazonas leads to the 25 meter scaffolding canopy
    tower. A bannistered staircase running through the middle provides safe access to the
    platforms above. The tower has been built upon high ground, therefore increasing
    your horizon of the continuous primary forest extending out towards the Tambopata
    National Reserve. From here views of mixed species canopy flocks as well as toucans,
    macaws and raptors are likely.

    Breakfast
    Transfer Boat - Refugio Amazonas to TRC
    Four and half hours by boat from Refugio Amazonas, in the pristine heart of the
    reserve, lies the Tambopata Research Center. One and half hours into our boat
    journey, as we cross the confluence with the Malinowski River, we will leave the final
    traces of human habitation behind. Within the 700,000 hectare uninhabited nucleus of
    the reserve, sightings of capybara, caiman, geese, macaws and other large species
    will become more frequent.

    Chuncho Clay Lick


    Two hours from Refugio Amazonas, deep in the Tambopata National Reserve we will
    stop at the Chuncho claylick. After a brief walk (~5 minutes) we will have the chance
    to see dozens of large macaws feeding on the special sodium rich clays of the
    riverbank. The Chuncho claylick probably attracts more large macaws than any other
    claylick in the world and the sight of dozens of macaws taking flight is truly
    unforgettable. The details of our stopover will depend on the weather and the amount
    of macaw activity, as the birds don’t visit the clay lick when it is raining.

    Lunch

    Orientation
    Upon arrival, the lodge manager will welcome you and brief you with important
    navigation and security tips.

    Amazon Overlook Trail


    A three to five-kilometer hike through a regenerating old bamboo forest will lead us to
    the edge of stunning overlooks which commands magnificent views of the capriccios
    Tambopata River as it winds its way into the lowlands.

    Dinner

    Macaw Project Lectures


    After dinner scientists will provide an in depth look at the biology of macaws, their
    feeding habits, the theories for clay lick use, their breeding and feeding ecology,
    population fluctuations and the threats to their conservation.

    Tambopata Research Center - Overnight

    DAY 4

    Macaw Clay Lick


    On most clear mornings of the year dozens of large macaws and hundreds of parrots
    and parakeets congregate in a raucous and colorful spectacle on a cliff located near
    the lodge. This spellbinding spectacle inspired a National Geographic cover story. We
    will install ourselves on the opposite side of the Tambopata River at approximately
    fifty meters (165 feet) from the cliff. From our unobtrusive spot and with the
    assistance of powerful telescopes and weather permitting, we will be able to observe
    Green-winged, Scarlet and Blue-and-gold Macaws and several species of smaller
    parrots and parakeets as they descend to ingest clay. Outings are at dawn when the
    clay lick is most active.

    Breakfast
    Lunch

    Island Exploration & Pond


    Ten minutes upriver from the lodge is a small pond with a platform in the middle. It is
    a great place to spot waterfowl such as the beautiful Agami heron, Capped heron, the
    rare curassow, Muscovy duck, Sunbittern and hoatzins along with woodpeckers,
    oropendolas, flycatchers and parakeets that call this pond their home. You will also
    have an opportunity to learn about the varieties of fish that live in the amazon. If you
    are fortunate you may even get to see a caiman or two.

    Dinner

    Rainforest by night
    Walking through the rainforest at night challenges all your senses. In deep darkness,
    surrounded by an array of jungle sounds and with the aid of your guide's powerful
    spotlight, you enter a world inhabited by the most unique, diverse and shy night
    creatures. If fortunate, you will be able to find poison dart frogs, night monkeys,
    tarantulas, amphibians and insects with the most unique adaptations to life under the
    cover of darkness.

    Tambopata Research Center - Overnight

    DAY 5

    Breakfast

    Amazon Creek Trail Hike


    The trail is undeniably beautiful, with pristine, crystal-clear creeks where you might
    catch sight of fish, frogs, and shy rainforest animals that few jungle visitors get a
    chance to see. As you hike the Wild Creek Trail, your guide will teach you all about
    rainforest creek ecology and help you spot wildlife.

    Lunch

    Palm Swamp Trail


    Growing on the remains of an oxbow lake and providing both arboreal as well as
    terrestrial mammals with fruits throughout the year, the aguaje palms are one of the
    most important food sources in the rainforest. Unfortunately, this habitat is also in
    high demand by humans since the swamps provide ideal conditions for planting rice,
    making the palm swamps one of the most threatened habitats in the rainforest. Once
    thing is certain. Swamps are truly picturesque habitats and should be in everyone's
    short list of places to visit during your stay at TRC.

    Dinner

    Tambopata Research Center - Overnight

    DAY 6

    Breakfast

    Jaguar Float by Motor Boat, TRC to Tambopata River Port


    Float downriver silently at the first sign of dawn, looking for jaguars and tapirs by the
    riverbanks in our way back to Puerto Maldonado.

    Transfer Tambopata River Port to Pto Maldonado Headquarters

    Transfer Puerto Maldonado Headquarters to Airport


    We retrace our river and road journey back to Puerto Maldonado, our office and the
    airport. Depending on airline schedules, this may require dawn departures.

    NOTES

    Included
    Programmes based on double occupancy. Includes all meal, accommodations, and
    services, all river transportation, and transfer from and to the airport of Puerto
    Maldonado.

    Not Included
    International or domestic airfares, airport departure taxes or visa fees, excess
    baggage charges, additional nights during the trip due to flight cancellations, alcoholic
    beverages or bottled water, snacks, insurance of any kind, laundry, phone calls or
    messages, reconfirmation of flights and items of personal nature.

    Boat Transportation
    Rainforest Expeditions boats are 20-foot long, roofed canoes. Outboard boat engine
    are 60hp
    4 cycle, eco-friendly, low emission motors.

    • Transfer-in (From Puerto Maldonado to Lodge): we have two departures daily


    at 13:00 and 14:00
    • Transfer-out (TRC to Puerto Maldonado): One daily departure at 05:00

    For other schedule possibilities please consult us

    We reserve the right to change the order of activities.

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