PUERTO MALDONADO

MANU PROGRAMS

 ◊ MANU EXPRESS

     | 4 days / 3 nights

 ◊ MANU

     | 5 days / 4 nights

 ◊ MANU | THE BIO TRIP

      | 5 days / 4 nights

 ◊ MANU CLOUD FOREST

      | 3 days / 2 nights

 ◊ MANU EXPLORER

      | 6 DIAS / 5 NOCHES

TAMBOPATA PROGRAMS

 ◊ TAMBOPATA EXPRESS

         | 3 days / 2 nights

 ◊ CLASIC HEATH RIVER

       | 5 days / 4 nights

Puerto Maldonado

Diversity and Natural Beauty
It is said that the Amazonía is the only place where one feels the sensation of being in the dawn of the world. Due to his diversity, his forests and his rivers, cities as Port Maldonado, the capital of the department of Madre de Dios, it offers you to begin from there a route of emotions, revelations and finds.Three extraordinary, contiguous Amazon reserves lie only a 25-minute flight from Cusco - the great Tambopata Madidi Wilderness on the Peru-Bolivia border. Taken together, these parks are two-thirds the size of Costa Rica and protect the most species-rich natural habitats in the World. The intimate Heath River provides the fastest and easiest route to the uninhabited, unhunted core of these parks, a vast 2.5-million-acre (one-million-hectare) wilderness full of the five top predators of the Amazon--Jaguar, Giant Otter, Black Caiman, Harpy Eagle, and Anaconda. The unhunted region of Manu (the other great Peruvian nature reserve) is only 750,000 acres (300,000 hectares) and demands more money and time to visit. The Heath River features the world's most accessible large macaw lick, which has registered up to 260 large macaws in one day, making it one of the five largest recorded macaw licks in the world. Though all five of these licks are spectacular, the Heath Lick is by far the most economical to visit, making it ideal for a short Amazon itinerary to combine with the Inca sites of Cusco and Machu Picchu. The Heath lick is the only one of the five that can be reached the same day that you fly by jet from Cusco, thus saving one or two nights over other licks. Travelers enjoy warm pancakes and coffee while viewing the photogenic Heath Macaw Lick from a comfortable floating blind anchored only 100 feet (30 metres) away, a fraction of the distance from which one views the more remote clay licks in Tambopata. Finally, the rainforest on both sides of the Heath River is fully representative of the world's most biologically diverse habitat--the Amazon forest at the foot of the eastern slope of the Andes.