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Manu Jungle Tour 4 Days & 3 Nights

  • 4 Days & 3 Nights
  • Max 12 people
  • Moderate
  • Expert Guide

Local Trekkers Peru offers the 4 Days tour in the Manu National Park, this wonderful biosphere is located in Madre de Dios and Paucartambo, Cusco.

Local Trekkers Peru offers the 4 Days tour in the Manu National Park, this wonderful biosphere is located in Madre de Dios and Paucartambo, Cusco.

It is an area protected by the Peruvian government in 1977 and was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1987.

It is the largest National Park in Peru, with an area 1 909 800 hectares.

It is divided into three large areas: The National Park, with 1,532,806 hectares; The Reserved Zone, with 257,000 hectares; And the Transitional or Cultural Zone, with 120 000 hectares.

The park protects several ecological zones due to this topographic range, it has one of the highest levels of biodiversity of any park in the world.

In this park there are more than 15,000 species of plants in Manu, and up to 250 varieties of trees have been found per hectare.

It also houses more than 1000 bird species more than the number of bird species found in the United States and Canada combined and almost 10% of the total bird species in the world.

It also has one of the largest amounts of terrestrial vertebrates found in the tropical forests of Latin America, it is also the last refuge of the largest feline (The Great JAGUAR) of the Peruvian Amazon.

Program

We will leave Cusco early in our comfortable bus until we reach the folk village of Paucartambo, then we will visit the pre-Inca funerary towers of Ninamarca, then we will drive through a cloud forest full of plants and beautiful orchids, we will have the opportunity to observe the national bird of the Peru: Gallito de las Rocas (Rupicola Peruviana), monkeys, many birds and other species and with a little luck, we will see the only South American bear, the spectacled bear (Tremarctos Ornatus).

In the afternoon we arrive at Pilcopata, where we will spend the night at the Lodge there will be showers and private bathrooms to cool off.

In the morning we will have our delicious breakfast, then our private bus lkos will transfer to the Atalaya, post, Then we will sail for 30 minutes along the Alto Madre de Dios river, during this time we will be able to observe the great variety of birds that this place possesses such as for example; Herons, egrets, vultures of which the most spectacular is the condor king of the jungle (Sarcoramphus papa), we can also see the first Capybaras that are the largest rodents in the world, in the afternoon we will make an excursion and enter the jungle through About 3 hours, and at nightfall our Lodge awaits us, where will we can take a shower and we will take a rest, finally we will have the option of doing a night walk through the jungle.

After our breakfast very early in the morning, we will sail by boat for approximately 25 minutes to the place where the parrots eat clay, in this place we will can see a great variety of parrots and other birds, after this experience we will return to Machuhuasi Lake, where some native rafts await us to navigate the lake for about 2 hours and appreciate different species in the river and in the trees, we will finally do some walks around the lodge in search of other species that inhabit the place.

Finally, we arrive on the last day of our tour, after breakfast we will return to the port of Atalaya visiting this beautiful village for the last time, where our bus will be waiting for us to return to Cusco.

Prices

GROUP TOUR STANDARD

SHARED SERVICE: 380 USD PER PERSON

PRIVATE SERVICE: 795 USD PER PERSON

What to bring

  • Original Passport
  • Travel Insurance card (you have to let us know the name of your Travel Insurance company and your Travel Insurance Number)
  • A backpack
  • Raincoat or rain poncho
  • Cold clothes (for the first day)
  • Bottle of Water
  • Sandals
  • Bottle of Water
  • Flashlight with extra batteries
  • Insect Repellent (30% Deet as minimum recommended)
  • Towel
  • Toilet Paper
  • Sunblock
  • Sunglasses
  • Caps or hats
  • Binoculars
  • Rain pants
  • Medicines for personal use
  • Personal use stuff (Face moisturizer, hand sanitizer, toothbrush and toothpaste, etc)
  • Camera with extra batteries (electricity available in some lodges)
  • Extra money especially in soles to buy things along the trek

WHAT’S INCLUDED?

INCLUDED

Bilingual and certified Tour Guide

A briefing about the trek with your guide the day before

Pick up from your accommodation

Private transportation to go to the Park (First and last day)

Mineral water

Lodges (Private, double, triple, quadruple rooms available)

Comfortable Mattresses and mosquito nets

Blankets

Rubber boots to walk inside the jungle

Permits and entrance fees to the Manu National Park

Boat to move along the river

Boat driver and his assistant

Professional Cook

Snack for each day of trip

Availability of meals to your preference (vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, pescetarian, etc)

First Aid kit

Survivor T-Shirt for each member of the group.

NOT INCLUDED

Extra expense if you want to buy things during the tour

First Breakfast and last dinner

Tips for the team (Is not obligatory but if you wish to do it, it will be welcome).

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