Macaw Clay Lick Chuncho 3D2N Tours

DAY 1: Puerto Maldonado / Trip in 4x4 / Lodge

• Your guide will be waiting for you at the airport and / or bus terminal and will take you to our office located about 5 minutes from the airport in the city of Puerto Maldonado. Here we will check in and make some last minute purchases of things we might have forgotten, like batteries or poncho. Then we will start a trip in a 4x4 truck, for 2 hours to reach the Philadelphia community. From there we will travel by motorized boat, along the Tambopata River for a few minutes until we reach a shelter, where we will stay for the night to be able from there the next day, visit the macaw clay lick "El chuncho". Upon arrival at the lodge we will settle in and then we will start an introductory walk to the Amazon, where our guide will explain the flora and fauna that live here. Return for dinner, then a night walk to see the animals that usually come out at night, spend the night in this comfortable lodge.

• We will get up very early at 5:00 am To travel in a motorized boat upstream of the Tambopata River for approximately one hour with all sunrise, the landscape is spectacular we will have the possibility of seeing a jaguar or perhaps an anaconda, ronsoco, etc. . on the shores of our Tambopata National Reserve. Arriving at our destination, the "Chuncho" macaw clay lick, we will find a spectacle of parrots and macaws and we will learn about the reasons why these birds, and many other mammals, need the clay of this wall in their daily diet throughout the year. . . It is a spectacular show that entertains us from 6:00 am to 11:00 am. Our delicious breakfast will be in front of the macaw clay lick. Return to the hostel After our activity, we will have a brief visit to the checkpoint to learn more about a small museum that is located in this place. We will continue to our hostel for lunch, and then we will prepare to return to Puerto Maldonado, and from there we will take a boat to travel along the Madre de Dios River, for 10 minutes to our next hostel, in Tambopata "after settling in, we will visit the island of the monkeys, observation of alligators, we will spend the night in our comfortable lodge.

• After breakfast, we will prepare to visit Lake Sandoval for the whole day, from our lodge we will travel 10 minutes by boat until we reach the shores of the port of Lake Sandoval, from where we will enter the Tambopata Reserve “Lago Sandoval ”in a walk of approximately 1 hour, then we will arrive at the lake where we will take a rowing canoe to walk through this beautiful lake that houses a great variety of birds and animals. Then we will have a typical boxlunch on Lake Sandoval, after lunch those who wish can bathe in Lake Sandoval without any danger, then we will return to Puerto Maldonado..

• Original passport
• Insect repellent, repellent with more than 30% protection.
• Sunscreen
• Sunglasses
• Hat
• Rain coat
• Long pants
• Long t-shirt
• Flashlight
• Flip flops
• Trekking shoes
• Empty bottle for refilling water
• We recommend 8x40 or 10x50 binoculars for the macaw clay lick
• Plastic back for binoculars or camera.
• Small backpack for trekking

• Daily

Cancellations allowed with 48 hours notice and a $10 usd per person cancellation fee