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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.