Main Info
Overview and Highlights
This Jungle program is for those looking for a short introductory stay in the Amazon basin for 2 nights. Visit an ethnic botanical center run by a native community, an oxbow lake, and a canopy tower among other activities.
Within the pristine Amazon rainforest, our Posada Amazonas lodge connects you to the natural and cultural wonders of the Tambopata rainforest. When looking for a hotel in Puerto Maldonado, this jungle eco-lodge offers a unique set of activities with ample opportunities to observe wildlife and discover ancestral indigenous heritage where you can create your own personal adventure.
Included
- Programs based on double occupancy.
- Includes all meal on the itinerary, 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.
- Tips.
What to bring and advices
- Binoculars (imperative).
- Flashlight with spare bulbs and extra batteries.
- Sleeping bag.
- Day pack.
- Long pants and long-sleeved shirts.
- T-shirts.
- Shorts/Bathing suit.
- Towel.
- Sweater or light jacket.
- 1 pair of hiking boots and 1 pair of light shoes or sandals.
- Long socks.
- Rain gear.
- Rubber boots (only in the rainy season—we provide them).
- Sunhat, sunglasses, sun block.
- Insect repellent (with at least 25% DEET) and after bite.
- Toilet-paper.
- Plastic bags (to keep everything dry).
- Water bottle (with water for the bus ride into Manu).
- Copy of a valid passport.
- Copy of yellow fever and tetanus vaccinations.
- Money for soft drinks or beers and handicrafts at the Boca Manu landing strip.
- A light day pack with a change of clothes for the whole period of the trek – prepare for a vast range of changes in temperature.
- Rain gear (jacket and pants if available) or rain poncho. Plastic ponchos can be bought for about $1 in Cusco.
- Strong footwear, waterproof trekking boots recommended.
- Warm clothes, including jacket, fleeces, gloves, scarf and beanie/touk. Thermal clothing is also recommended, especially for sleeping.
- Camera, films and batteries (batteries consume more quickly under cold conditions).
- Hat or cap to protect you from the sun, rain and cold.
- Sun block.
- After-sun cream or hydrating cream for face and body.
- Insect repellent – minimum recommended 20% DEET – although no malaria risk has been reported.
- Snacks: biscuits, energy bars, chocolate, raw fruits, muesli, etc.
- Non-disposable canteen (Nalgene type) and water for the first morning.
- We advise you to bring water sterilizing tablets in case you collect water from streams.
- Your own medical kit with any special medications that you might require, paracetamol, second skin for blisters etc.
- Small towel or sarong.
- Bathers/swimsuit (if you intend on swimming in hot springs).
- Cash – sufficient for snacks, tips and souvenirs.
- Original passport & ISIC (International Student Identity Card) if you have one.
- Walking sticks or poles (we can hire these to you. Please note poles with metal tips cannot be carried into Machu Picchu and should be left at your hotel on the final day).
- Binoculars (if you have them).
- Travel insurance (highly recommended)
Itinerary
Arrival & Reception by Guide:
Our guides are biologists, tourism professionals, or community members. Unless noted otherwise, our guides speak English. We assign guides at 10:1 ratio in Posada Amazonas. This means groups smaller than 10 people will be merged with other groups under one guide. If you would like a private guide or 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.
Boxed Lunch.
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.
Orientation:
Upon arrival, the lodge manager will welcome you and brief you with important navigation and security tips.
Canopy Tower:
A twenty minute walk from Posada Amazonas leads to the 30 meter scaffolding canopy tower. A banister staircase running through the middle provides safe access to the platforms above. From atop you obtain spectacular views of the vast expanses of standing forest cut by the Tambopata River winding through the middle. Now and then toucans, parrots or macaws are seen flying against the horizon, or mixed species canopy flocks land in the treetop next to you.
Dinner.
Ecotourism Lecture:
A daily presentation on the Infierno ecotourism project is available every night from a staff member.
Meals: Lunch, Dinner.
Night: Posada Lodge.
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.
Parrot Clay Lick:
This clay lick is only a twenty minute walk from Posada Amazonas. From a blind located about twenty meters away you will see dozens of parrots and parakeets descend on most clear mornings to ingest the clay on a river bank. Species such as Mealy and Yellow- headed Amazon, Blue-headed Parrot and Dusky headed Parakeet descend at this clay lick. The clay lick is active at dawn, during the late mornings and mid-afternoons.
Lunch.
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.
Night walk:
You will have the option of hiking out at night, when most of the mammals are active but rarely seen. Much easier to find are frogs with shapes and sounds as bizarre as their natural histories.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Night: Posada Lodge.
Breakfast.
Transfer Boat - Posada Amazonas to Tambopata River Port.
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:
All our boats are 20 foot long, roofed canoes with 55 hp outboard motors.
Transfer-in (From Puerto Maldonado to Lodge): we have two departures daily at 13:00 and 14:30.
Transfer-out (Lodge to Puerto Maldonado) : Two daily departures at 07:00 and 08:00 For other schedule possibilities.
Meals:
Night: Not included.
