Your Travel Experience with Galapagos PRO
Day 1
Day 1: Discover the Amazon like birds.
Arrive in Puerto Maldonado, the capital of Madre de Dios, and 2 hours drive by bus and boat to the lodge. Your first taste of the culinary Amazon will be in the river as you leave the city behind and enjoy the amazing jungle landscapes.
Posada Amazonas Lodge awaits you - a spacious eco-lodge with bar, massage center and buffet service in the middle of a private concession owned by the indigenous community of Infierno, guardians of the rainforest.
The accommodation consists of a 45 m² room with private bathroom and an open wall facing the forest. Your stay includes three meals daily, tea, coffee, guided excursions and activities, refreshments upon arrival, and transfers to and from the airport.
That afternoon, a first group joins a hike that leads to the 40-meter-high scaffolding of the Canopy Tower. A railing staircase running down the middle provides safe access to the platforms above. From up there, you'll have a spectacular view of the vast expanses of standing forest, bisected by the Tambopata River, which meanders through the middle. Every now and then you'll see toucans, parrots or macaws flying against the horizon, or mixed flocks of canopies landing in the treetop next to you.
Day 2
Day 2: Explore Oxbow Lake.
Wildlife in the Amazon takes advantage of the first lights of the day as it is cooler then, so do we. Also you are on vacation there are some activities that our guides encourage you to do it very early in the morning and it is worth it.
The oxbow lake Tres Chimbadas is thirty minutes by boat and forty-five minutes walk from Posada Amazonas. There you can paddle a catamaran around the lake and look for the resident family of nine giant river otters (seen by 60% of our lake visitors) and other lakeside wildlife such as caimans, hoatzins and horned screamers. The otters are most active from dawn to eight or nine in the morning.
Centro Ñape is a community organization that produces medicines from forest plants and administers them to patients who visit their small clinic. They have created an educational trail that explains the various medicinal (and other) uses of selected plants.
You have the opportunity to take a night hike, when most mammals are active but rarely seen. Much easier to find are frogs, whose shapes and sounds are as bizarre as their natural history.
Day 3
Day 3:
It is time to say goodbye as the expedition comes to an end.
With your visit, you will directly contribute to the support of the native community of Infierno in their efforts to protect the Tambopata River.
You will drive back to the city to the airport to board your domestic flight.