Ultimate Peru Wildlife
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.
Lima
Explore Lima before the Andes and Amazon.
To Cusco
Transfer to Cusco. Explore the Inca capital and acclimatise. A historic-city day before the cloud forest.
Cusco
A historic-city day before the cloud forest. Inca Cusco before the descent to Manu. Cusco's Inca and colonial heritage makes it a destination in itself, as well as the gateway to the wild.
To Sacred Valley
Transfer to Sacred Valley. Inca ruins and Andean markets in the valley. A gentle day acclimatising amid the terraces.
Sacred Valley
A gentle day acclimatising amid the terraces. The Sacred Valley's terraces and ruins, along the Urubamba, were the green heart of the Inca empire.
To Manu National Park
Transfer to Manu National Park. A macaw clay lick and oxbow-lake otters. Cloud-forest and lowland trails for Manu's wildlife.
Manu National Park
Cloud-forest and lowland trails for Manu's wildlife. A full day in the world's most biodiverse park. Manu's altitude range, from cloud forest to Amazon, gives it the greatest biodiversity of any park on earth.
Manu National Park
A full day in the world's most biodiverse park. Rainforest trails, clay licks and night safaris.
Manu National Park
Rainforest trails, clay licks and night safaris.
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.
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
Palacio del Inka
A restored colonial palace facing the Qorikancha, Cusco's finest heritage hotel.
Hotel B
An art-filled belle-époque mansion in bohemian Barranco, Lima's most stylish stay.
Manu Wildlife Center
A lowland Amazon lodge in Manu, beside a macaw clay lick and oxbow lakes.
Inkaterra Hacienda Urubamba
An elegant hacienda-style lodge with valley and mountain views in the Sacred Valley.
Tambopata Research Center
A remote research lodge beside the great Colorado macaw clay lick, deep in the reserve.
Belmond Monasterio
A converted 16th-century monastery in the heart of old Cusco.
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.