After breakfast, we’ll visit the surrounding Amazonian orchard full of morning bird life and discover local medicinal plants. We’ll also see a real coca plantation. Continuing in the minivan, we’ll reach the port of Atalaya where we can make the last minute purchases and board our motorized river boat. After about 2 hours in the open waters of Alto Madre De Dios River, with stop offs for wildlife viewing and lunch on the banks. We’ll reach Robles Ecological Reserve in the afternoon, where you can swim in the river and in the evening we offer a night jungle walk to see nocturnal creatures like frogs, insects (tarantulas!) snakes and more.

Overnight will be in our private Hide (a camouflaged stilted house in the middle of the jungle) where you can experience the sights and sounds of this amazing area in the solitude of the trees. Strategically located nearby is a salt like for mammals and when we take turns taking guard, we can all be awake to witness night animals like tapirs, deer, armadillos, paca (wild pigs) and monkeys that visit to nourish themselves on the mineral rich clay.

After our amazing night at the Hide, we’ll wake up early hike back through the jungle to take up watch on the river bank opposite the salt lick. With good conditions, we’ll be able to see parakeets, Green parrots, splendid macaws, and even Otters rolling past for their morning dose of nutrient rich clay.

Breakfast will be made using local  goods from the forest. With the jungle all around us, we will take a hike through the canopy in search of turtles and poison dart frogs, and listen to and watch for any of the 5 species of monkeys that live in the area. Birds are abundant – our walk will be lauded by toucans, macaws, woodpeckers, hummingbirds, and many other birds that you won’t see in other parts of the world.

Overnight at Romero Lodge

5:00 AM starts our river boat trip toward the Manu Reserved Zone, a natural Paradise! We’ll have breakfast onboard so we use every minute to spot wildlife along. After about 4 hours traveling downstream we arrive where Boca Manu River changes course, travelling upstream to Rio Manu (Manu River) we’ll have the best chance to spot the elusive jaguar, foraging capybaras, and dozing of caimans along the river’s banks; a multitude of birds: egrets and great herons fishing, macaws with their dazzling colors, toucans, eagles, and more (your guide will help you spot them!) Wildlife is unpredictable but with so much here, we’ll definitely have a super day!

Overnight at the rustic Casa Machiguenga Lodge.

Leaving very early to board wooden catamarans at Salvador Oxbow Lake, where giant otters (Pteronura brasiliensis), a plethora of birds including the prehistoric hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazín), and 14 kinds of monkeys inhabit the at this place and on the trees. As we are deep in the jungle we have more chances to spot the wildlife.

Lunch break, we’ll then visit Otorongo Oxbow Lake, We’ll climb the a big tower to see the lake where we can spot bunch of giant otters frolicking there, black caimans crossing from one side to the other or basking in the sun. At night, we’ll have an excursion as the place offers a rich nocturnal wildlife, which is a perfect time to spot the nocturnal creatures.

Last night in the Manu Reserve zone at Casa Machiguenga Lodge.

We’ll get up very early to get more chance to see the elusive jaguar en route to the Reserve zone. We might also see tapirs, capybaras or peccaries on the banks of Manu River, or turtles straddling trunks, or caimans basking on the shores. Once in Boca Manu, we leave the still waters for the turbulent Alto Madre De Dios River where we steer ahead to the Manu Rainforest Lodge. Your guide will explain the area and point out wildlife and flora on the way.

Overnight at Bamboo Lodge

We leave the lodge after breakfast and head back to Cusco. In the morning, while we go upstream on skiff will still opportunities to see wildlife along the river and its banks. On the way back from Antalya town, we’ll make stops along the way and have lunch at a scenic place. We’ll arrive back in Cusco by 6:00 PM and drop you off at your hotel. End of our adventure.