Macaw Clay Lick Photography
What you'll see
The journey, one day at a time
Arrive Lima
Arrive in Lima, met and transferred to your accommodation. Lima combines a world-class food scene with Humboldt-current wildlife on its shores.
To Tambopata National Reserve
Transfer to Tambopata National Reserve. A dawn macaw clay lick and oxbow-lake otters. Rainforest trails and canopy towers for birds.
Tambopata National Reserve
Rainforest trails and canopy towers for birds. A full day of Amazon wildlife and photography. Tambopata's Colorado clay lick draws hundreds of macaws and parrots at dawn — the largest such gathering known.
Tambopata National Reserve
A full day of Amazon wildlife and photography. Clay licks, otters and night safaris.
Tambopata National Reserve
Clay licks, otters and night safaris.
Tambopata National Reserve
A dawn macaw clay lick and oxbow-lake otters.
Tambopata National Reserve
Rainforest trails and canopy towers for birds.
Tambopata National Reserve
A full day of Amazon wildlife and photography.
Departure
A final morning in Tambopata National Reserve — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
The season changes what you see.
Peak season
Drier inland season — the best window for onward travel.
Good season
Warmer, with sunnier coastal weather in Lima.
Hand-picked camps & lodges
Hotel B
An art-filled belle-époque mansion in bohemian Barranco, Lima's most stylish stay.
Tambopata Research Center
A remote research lodge beside the great Colorado macaw clay lick, deep in the reserve.
Country Club Lima Hotel
A grand 1920s hotel with an art collection, in leafy San Isidro.
Inkaterra Reserva Amazónica
A luxurious Amazon ecolodge with a canopy walkway near Puerto Maldonado.
Pullman Lima Miraflores
A sleek modern hotel in Miraflores, convenient for the coast.
Refugio Amazonas
A comfortable family-friendly lodge in the Tambopata reserve.
Make it yours.
Add nights, swap a park, extend to the coast — this route is a starting point, not a fixed menu. Tell us how you travel and we'll route the rest.