Tour Programs Manu Wildlife Center
From Cusco this lodge is only 45 minutes by air plus 90 minutes by river. No other lodge in Manu offers all these major wildlife attractions in one spot:
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The world's largest Tapir lick.
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The most photogenic and accessible large macaw and parrot lick.
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Miles of monkey-rich trails through mature rain forest.
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Two 120-foot-tall (35-m) canopy platforms.
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Two mature lakes with abundant Hoatzins, caimans and Giant Otters.
Manu Wildlife Center is located in a private, 16,190 ha./40,000-acre rain forest reserve adjacent to the one million-acre protected area named the “Amarakaeri Reserved Zone”. The tapir lick is a comfortable ninety minutes on foot from the lodge, while the macaw lick is a half-hour boat journey plus a short walk away.
Visitors will welcome the amenities and comfort of this lodge, the only one in the Manu lowlands with roomy, private bungalows, en suite private bathrooms and tiled, hot water showers -- especially if they are arriving from the rustic simplicity of Manu National Park.
Here they can charge batteries, check their e-mail, wash their hair and order a drink under the high thatched roof of the grandly spacious all-wooden dining hall, bar and lounge. (Conservation note: the cedarwood used in construction was salvaged from uprooted trees washed downriver by the annual floods).
Some
comments from different publications
"...Manu Wildlife Center offered, hands down
the most intense wildlife experience I've had in the Amazon....."
Conde Nast Traveler - December 2002
"...
a scintillating rainforest option in this area is Manu Wildlife
Center, two hours downstream from Boca Manu. The Wildlife
Center, just outside the Manu Biosphere Reserve, is in a
large area of privately owned rainforest with superb wildlife
viewing..." Insight Guide Peru, Discovery
Channel
"...Manu Wildlife Center has become a base
of choice for elite bird-watching tours and wildlife-documentary
crews- people willing to spend good money to be treated
well." Conde Nast Traveler - December 2002
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