The
Bio-trip
Complete
itinerary 6 days/5 nights
Departs
Wednesday and Saturday
USD
1635
Price
per person based on 2-persons in double accommodation.
Reduced rates available for bookings of 5 or more people.
Day
01
Today you will leave early to the Manu cloud forest. You
pass over two Andean chains at almost 4,000 m elevation
and descend through the cloud forest. This transect is a
paradise for birders. After approximately 7 hours on the
road we arrive at the Cock-of-the-Rock lodge in the Selva
Sur Private Cloud forest reserve and will spend the night
within earshot of a mountain river. (L/D)
Day
02
You will get up early and visit the lek of the Andean
Cock-of-the-Rock. You will spend the some hours of the
morning walking on the road looking for cloud forest
birds, and with luck, Common Woolly Monkeys. Then depart
by bus for Atalaya. After a 3-4 hour bus ride we reach
the alto Madre de Dios River at Atalaya where you will
eat a box lunch and then switch over to a cargo canoe
with a 55 hp outboard motor.
Then
you continue for 1.5 - 2 hours on the alto Madre de Dios
River to the Pantiacolla Lodge. If there is time you will
be able to start your exploration of one of the 20 km of
gridded forest trails which surround the lodge. (B/L/D)
Day
03
You can take a small hike on the Lodge trails before leaving
to Manu Wildlife Center. On the way you will stop at a local
Piro Indian Village. After approximately 6 hours you arrive
at Manu Wildlife Center for a late lunch. After resting
to escape the afternoon heat, you can begin your exploration
of the 48 km of forest trails. (B/L/D)
Day
04 and Day 05
The first morning we get up at 4:30 in the morning and leave
at 5:15 a.m. to drive by boat 25 minutes downriver to the
macaw clay lick. We will board the large mobile blind that
is attached by a long, heavy rope to a large, fixed log
in the middle of the river and is positioned in front of
the macaws once they have chosen their spot to eat clay.
After watching the small parrots at the clay lick between
6 and 7 a.m. we will have a pancake breakfast aboard the
moving blind. The moving blind is about 9 m. long and 5
m. wide and holds up to 18 people comfortably. It also has
a private bathroom in the rear. If the weather is good,
the macaws should arrive between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m. and,
if not scared by eagles or other surprises, should be down
to eat on the clay by at some point between 8:00 and 9:30
a.m. We leave the lick after the macaws have finished eating
clay. If they finish early, then we may have time for a
short visit to one oxbow lake to search for giant otters
before returning to the lodge for lunch and an optional
siesta. In
the afternoon you may continue your siesta or take a walk
on one of the many trails around the lodge.
In
the evening and on any other evening that you wish, we may
take you on a 60 minute stroll (3 km so 45 or 40 min if
you walk fast) out into the forest to the tapir clay lick.
You can spend then night at our elevated 5 m x 2.5 m platform
This screened structure is equipped with simple, inflatable
camping mattresses ("thermarest" style) and small inflatable
pillows with fresh, personal pillow cases so that you
can rest or read quietly while waiting for the first
tapirs of the evening. The first tapir usually arrives
between 9:30 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.
Ther
tapirs usually come in throughout the night. We
either can stay all night on the platform, or we
can walk back after seeing the first tapir. One
of the mornings we will visit the two oxbow lakes
in the area, Cocha Camungo and Cocha Blanco to see
waterbirds and hoatzins and to search for giant
otters. Each of these lakes is used regularly by
its own family of these two-meter-long, 70-pound
predators, which are the only social mustelids (weasels,
minks, badgers, wolverines, skunks, otters) in the
world.
In
the afternoons we will explore the extensive gridded
trail system to search for some of the 12 species
of monkeys that have been seen within a few kilometers
of the Center. Outings on the trails include a visit
to a Lookout over the Madre de Dios River, to different
parts of a crystalline forest stream that enters the
Madre de Dios River near the Center, to a large strangler
fig tree, to fruiting trees that may attract monkeys
and birds, and other options. We can visit the tapir
clay lick during any of the evenings, as well as during
the daytime when sometimes deer, peccaries, rock parakeets,
cracids come in, and occasionally tapirs come in.
Other outings, excursions and canopy observation from
our canopy tower and tree platform. (B/L/D)
Day
06
Early morning transfer to the Boca Manu airstrip and the
return flight to Cusco. (B)
Note
: Private departures available upon request at extra cost
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