You will be picked up from the airport in Puerto Maldonado. You will make a short stop at the lodge office in Puerto Maldonado. Here you can leave your belongings that you do not need for your stay in the rainforest in a safe deposit.
You will then be taken with the other travelers to the harbor in the Indian village of Infierno, 20 kilometers from Puerto Maldonado. Here you leave by boat for a beautiful boat trip of about 6 hours. After an hour and a half of sailing, where the Tambopata River meets the Malinowski River, you will no longer find any human habitation. In this uninhabited part of the rainforest you are more likely to see caimans, capybaras, geese, macaws and other types of animals.
Along the way you will be offered lunch on the boat.
After another three hours of sailing, and a short 5 minute walk, you arrive at the Chuncho Clay Lick. The clay lick attracts many large macaws that search for the sodium-rich clay of the river bank. With a bit of luck you will see dozens of large macaws at the same time. There is no other clay lick in the world known to attract so many large macaws. The macaws do not visit the clay lick when it rains, so it must be dry. At the end of the day you arrive at the Tambopata Research Center Peru.
Today your guide will take you for a walk of about 5 kilometers on trails around the lodge. This part of the rainforest is home to the howler monkey and the jumping monkey. Together with your guide you decide which other activities you will undertake today.
You start the day with a visit to the clay lick at the river bank close to the lodge. On clear mornings, dozens of large macaws and hundreds of parrots gather here. The magazine National Geopraphic has made an article of this colorful spectacle and put one of the macaws on the cover. Macaws that you can encounter at the clay lick are the scarlet macaw and the blue-and-yellow macaw. The birds are most active at the clay lick early in the morning.
After breakfast you take a walk on a 5-kilometer long trail past immense trees in a swampy area with streams and other waters. Trees you will find here are the ceiba tree and the Shihuahuaco tree. Animals that live in this habitat include the squirrel, the brown capuchin monkey, the spider monkey and the peccary.
After lunch, take a 10-minute walk upstream from the river to a small lake. From an elevation you have a beautiful view to see birds such as the muscovy duck, the sun rail, the hoatzin, the Psarocolius and various species of woodpeckers, and parakeets.
You visit the clay lick at the river bank again.
After breakfast you take a walk on another trail to a slightly higher area. The vegetation is immediately different here. The trees in this part of the forest are smaller. The brown-backed tamarin is common here. Together with your guide you will look for traces of the tapir.
After lunch you take a walk to a place in the rainforest where the Mauritius palm grows, with its fruits one of the most important food sources in the rainforest.
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