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Tambopata River 3 Days - 2 Nights

RIO TAMBOPATA.
Puerto Maldonado.
A luxuriant destination, with infinite forests and sinuous rivers folwing towards the ocean. Madre de Dios is a department where there is plentiful of life in every corner. Puerto Maldonado, the capital city, is a necessary step to enter a few national parks and reserves of the area. It has been, during different periods, an important rubber, wood, gold and oil exploitation center. Two of the main current economical activities of the department are ecotourism and chestnut collecting. The rich biodiversity is captivating, surrounded by swamps, orchids, lupuna trees, mahogany wood and aguajes (palm trees) up to 30 meter high. A large variety of species lives there, such as toucans, macaws, parrots, herons, tapirs and turtles, and the refuge of the giant otter and the black caiman, both in danger of extintion. Its rivers, Tambopata and Madre de Dios, constitute a unique destination in the world, allowing an authentic contact with nature while interacting with ancestral Amazonian cultures.

Itinerary:

DAY 1
Reception at Puerto Maldonado airport and tranfer to our office in the city to get ready and be given important information. If you wish so, you will be able to use our storehouse to store the equipment that you won't need in the lodging.
We will be taken to the port, where we will board our boat. Lunch (lunch box).
Our crossing will last about 45 minutes on the river, in the density of the jungle, until we arrive at the private reserve of the Infierno Indian community. Welcoming to our lodging POSADA AMAZONAS.
After a coordination meeting, we will be accommodated in the lodging rooms.
On that day, we will walk for 20 minutes in the jungle until we arrive at the Canopy Tower, a network of high scaffolding among 30-meter-high trees. It was built with steel wire-cables, so that it is possible to climb easily. These passages also have rails on each side for your safety. We will regularly find resting platforms from which not only will we be able to appreciate a stunning view of the Tambopata river and the top of the trees, but this is also an excellent spot to observe birds living at those heights, such as toucans, parrots and macaws. Dinner.
Presentation about ecotourism: we will attend a presentation made by a member of our team about the ecotourism project between Rainforest Expeditions and the Infierno Indian Community.
DAY 2
Breakfast
Visit of the Tres Chimbadas lake, Thirty minutes by boat and a fourty-five minute walk will lead us to the banks of the Tres Chimbadas lake. From there, a catamaran and an Indian rower will take us on a quiet tour, on the lake, to appreciate the lake fauna at its peak. We will search for caimans, riverside birds, strange pigs, and if we are lucky, we will be able to see the river wolf family (seen by 60% of our visitors), known as the biggest freshwater otters of the world. Its major peak of activity goes from sunrise to 8 or 9 a.m.
Parrot Clay Lick: Only twenty minutes away from the lodging, we wil find this place. From a hiding place, we will be able to observe, about twenty meters away from them, how tens of parrots and parakeets descend to feed on the clay from the clay lick. The clay lick can be visited early in the morning, late in the morning or in the afternoon, depending on when their is the most activity.
Lunch
Ethnobotanical TourTwenty minutes away going downstream by boat, we will find the Ñape Center. This center is a communal association that produces medicines made from the medicinal plants that grow in this ethnobotanical center and administers them to the people who come as far as there to heal. In a trail system, there are the plants used for medicinal purposes as well as other purposes, such as construction or transportation.
Dinner
Night hike: We will have the opportunity to walk during the night, which is the activity time of most of the mammals, although they are hard to see. The frogs are much more common, with shapes and sounds as extravagant as their natural stories.
DAY 3
Breakfast
Transfer by boat, from Posada Amazonas to Tambopata port
Transfer, from Tambopata port to the office in Puerto Maldonado
At a convenient time, transfer to the airport.
Note. Depending on the flights departure times, it might be necessary to leave very early in the morning, at sunrise.

INCLUDES:
Room in cabins, food, all the transfers and boat journeys, the guide and all the activities described in the excursion.
DOES NOT INCLUDE:
Air tickets

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