Ecotourism vacations in Peru - Birds watching tours : Cayman lodge amazonia invites you to take a trip to the Kolpa des Aras to observe Peru's most beautiful birds. You will go up the Tambopata river to the Tambopata national reserve to see the tremendous variety of birds species that inhabit the amazon rainforest.

Flight to Puerto Maldonado and trip out to Cayman lodge amazonia.
After your morning arrival in Puerto Maldonado, you will be met at the airport by your guide who will take you to the main harbor where you will catch a boat to the lodges. You will be going up the Tambopata river for approximately two hours. The vegetation changes all along this trip and the primary jungle gives way to secondary jungle.
When you arrive you will be given a welcome cocktail to cool down and meet the staff. Then you will be given a short visit of the lodge installations. Lunch. You will go on a walk in the jungle around Cayman lodge amazonia, dominated by Brazilian nut trees, in the afternoon. The mammals that you will often see on these trails are tamarinier and capucin monkeys, as well as anujes" or agouti rodents, the pacas or snakes from Cuba, the blue or "morphos" butterflies, toucans and many other bird species. After the evening meal there will be a night time outing to see the animals or insects whose particularity is having shiny eyes. Then you will spend the night in your lodge.

After an early breakfast you will get back in the boat to continue your trip up the river for 4 ½ hours towards Tambopata national reserve where you will find the kolpa with the biggest surface area in this region. After lunch your guide will take you to explore the network of trails and build a camp site on the beach near the kolpa. Most of the equipment you will need to camp out will be provided. Dinner. You will spend the night here.

It is recommended that you get up early to have breakfast so that we arrive at the kolpa before the birds do and can see the fairytale-like show of their arrival. They come to find a special clay lick that contains salts and minerals. There are on average several hundreds of parrots and aras that visit the kolpa on a daily basis. Some are red, others are blue, yellow, red and green, have a brown forehead or a blue head. This kolpa is considered to be one of the biggest in the world.

Late in the morning you will go on a long walk on the trails looking for the 9 species of monkeys that exist in this region: spider-monkey, squirrel-monkey, wistiti as well as tapir, capybara, pecari and jaguar. After lunch you will go for a canoe ride up the river to discover a small stream of clear water where you can swim. This stream is located in the jungle interior. Dinner. You will camp out on the beach near the Kolpa.

Back to Cayman lodge amazonia and a long walk on the banks of the lake. This is another good occasion to observe the wonders of nature in the Kolpa. Then you will go back Cayman lodge amazonia. Lunch. In the afternoon you will walk along the banks of lake Condenado where you will see another type of ecosystem. This one was created over a period of one hundred years when the river changed its bed. It is rich in aquatic plants and birds like herons, egrets, "jacanas", prehistoric birds called "shanshos" with a special call and the noisy "danocobios". Back to the lodges. Dinner. Tonight you will go looking for caymans and capybaras and will be sung to sleep by the symphony of the jungle. You will spend the night here.

It is recommended that you get up early to have breakfast and start the trip back to Port Maldonado.
You will have an amazing view of the sunrise on the Tambopata river.
The animal life, in particular the wistitis and howler monkeys that you often hear during the morning hours will accompany you to the harbor. Your guide will take care of everything you need right up to your departure from the airport. Have a pleasant trip.

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