Day	Itinerary	Night stop
1	Transfer from Puerto Maldonado by bus and boat to Posada Amazonas. Afternoon canopy tower visit.	Posada Amazonas
	Upon arrival from Lima or Cusco, we will welcome you at the airport and drive you ten minutes to our Puerto Maldonado headquarters. While enjoying your first taste of the forest in our gardens we will ask you to pack only the necessary gear for your next few days, and leave the rest at our safe deposit. This helps us keep the boats and cargo light. Skirting Puerto Maldonado, we drive 20 kilometers to the Tambopata River Port, entering the Native Community of Infierno. The port is a communal business. We then take a forty five minute boat ride from the Tambopata Port to Posada Amazonas which will take us into the Community´s Primary Forest Private Reserve. Upon arrival, the lodge manager will welcome you and brief you with important navigation and security tips. A twenty minute walk from Posada Amazonas leads to the 30 meter scaffolding canopy tower. A bannistered staircase running through the middle provides safe access to the platforms above. From atop you obtain spectacular views of the vast expanses of standing forest cut by the Tambopata River winding through the middle. Now and then toucans, parrots or macaws are seen flying against the horizon, or mixed species canopy flocks land in the treetop next to you. Dinner and a ecotourism lecture. A daily presentation on the Infierno ecotourism project is available every night from a staff member.
	Accommodation: Posada Amazonas
	Included Meals: Boxed lunch and dinner in the lodge.
2	A full days sight seeing including the Tres Chimbadas Oxbow Lake, a parrot clay lick, a ethnobotanical tour and night walk	Posada Amazonas
	Visit Tres Chimbadas Oxbow Lake, thirty minutes by boat and forty five minutes hiking from Posada Amazonas. Once there you will paddle around the lake in a catamaran, searching for the resident family of nine giant river otters (seen by 60% of our lake visitors) and other lakeside wildlife such as caiman, hoatzin and horned screamers. The Parrot clay lick is only a twenty minute walk from Posada Amazonas. From a blind located about twenty meters away you will see dozens of parrots and parakeets descend on most clear mornings to ingest the clay on a river bank. Species such as Mealy and Yellow- headed Amazon, Blue-headed Parrot and Dusky headed Parakeet descend at this clay lick. The clay lick is most active at dawn and during the late mornings and mid-afternoons. After lunch take a Ethnobotanical Tour: A twenty minute boat drive downriver leads you to a trail designed by the staff of the Centro Ñape. The Centro Ñape is a communal organization that produces medicines out of forest plants and administers them to patients who choose their little clinic. They have produced a trail which explains the different medicinal (and other) uses of selected plants. Dinner and a night walk. You will have the option of hiking out at night, when most of the mammals are active but rarely seen. Much easier to find are frogs with shapes and sounds as bizarre as their natural histories
	Accommodation: Posada Amazonas
	Included Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
3	Transfer back to Puerto Maldonado where tour ends
	Breakfast then transfer boat from Posada Amazonas to Tambopata River Port; bus to Pto Maldonado Headquarters, then on to the airport. We retrace our river and road journey back to Puerto Maldonado, our office and the airport. Depending on airline schedules, this may require dawn departures.
	Included Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation

Posada Amazonas is a 30 bedroom lodge owned by the Community of Infierno and managed with Rainforest Expeditions. Thanks to its accesibility, excellent wildlife observation opportunities, cultural context and comfortable accommodations, Posada Amazonas is ideal for a two night introduction to Amazonia´s richest rain forests.

Posada Amazonas is built using a combination of traditional native materials (wood, palm fronds, wild cane and clay) and architecture and modern day eco-lodge technology. The lodge itself consists of a complex of four sections: rooms, dining area and kitchen, relaxation area and internal support facilities. The entire roof of the lodge is constructed using high quality crisneja palm fronds, whereas the floors are of tropical mahogany. The rooms complex is built of four 9 X 24 meter structures with six rooms per facility, for a total of 30 double bedrooms.
 

Transport

BOAT TRANSPORTATION: Our boats are 20 foot long, roofed canoes with with 55 hp outboard motors. They have scheduled arrivals and departures from each port. These schedules are programmed daily so that they fit seamlessly with airport arrivals and departures. There is no need to worry about whether your plane fits our schedule. We do that for you with a maximum two hour wait. If you would like to book private boat transportation please let us know. Guests are protected by the sun and rain by the roof but we suggest keeping your rain gear and sun block handy in case the sun’s rays or raindrops come in slanted. There are life vests in every seat.

LAND TRANSPORTATION: We own two twenty seat buses that operate the daily scheduled routes to and from the port, synchronized with our boats and airport arrivals and departures. If additional routes are required because of airplane delays or private schedules, we rent station wagons or buses, depending on group size. If you would like to book private land transportation please let us know.
 

Meals

2 breakfasts, 2 lunches and 2 dinners.  We provide self-service three course meals at Posada Amazonas. Meals consist of soup or appetizers, salad, main course, and desserts combining Peruvian and international cuisine. All fresh fruits and salads are thoroughly disinfected before serving. We also provide at all times unlimited amounts of boiled, filtered, cooled drinking water, coffee or tea and we provide fruit juices during the meals. If any visitor has special dietary requirements, we are happy to make individual arrangements, but please notify us.

Staff

Rainforest Expeditions' Guide.  Our guides are biologists, tourism professionals, or community members. Unless noted otherwise, our guides speak English. We assign guides at 10:1 ratio. This means groups smaller than 10 people will be merged with other groups under one guide. If you would like a private guide or a guide in a language other than English please let us know.

Age Restriction

None

Optional Activities

Additional optional activities are available, please contact us for more information

What To Bring

Good binoculars
Camera gear
Tight-weave, light colored, long cotton pants
Long sleeved, tight-weave, light colored cotton shirts
Ankle-high hiking boots and sneakers
Flashlight with batteries
Sunblock lotion
Sunglasses
Broad-brimmed hat
Rain suit or poncho
Insect repellent
Small denomination bills
Small daypack.
 

Group Size

1-10

Other Information

Luggage is hand-carried at various stages in the trip for long distance. We strongly recommend you limit your weight to 15 kilos (32 pounds a piece). 

If you are visiting other destinations in Peru that require different kinds of clothing, you can always pack separate bags and safely leave them at our offices in Puerto Maldonado on the first day so we won’t be carrying them around uselessly. Your bag will be waiting for you at the airport the day you leave.

COMMUNICATIONS: Posada Amazonas is in daily HF radio contact with our offices in Puerto Maldonado and Lima from where we are able to communicate by email, fax or phone with the rest of the world.

LIGHTING AND ELECTRICITY: Posada Amazonas has no electricity. Light is provided by numerous kerosene lamps and candles. A generator is turned on once a day to recharge batteries for guests or lodge facilities. At night it is very dark, so we recommend good flashlights.