7 nights, 2 stops — the manu-road cloud forest and its lek.
Cusco → Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge.
Round trip · returns to Cusco
Arrive in Cusco, met and transferred to your accommodation. Cusco's Inca and colonial heritage makes it a destination in itself, as well as the gateway to the wild.
A historic-city day before the cloud forest. Explore the Inca capital and acclimatise.
Transfer to Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge. The cock-of-the-rock lek at dawn and tanager flocks. Cloud-forest birding along the Manu road.
Cloud-forest birding along the Manu road. A full day of mid-elevation Manu-road birds. The lodge's lek puts Peru's flame-red national bird in display just steps from your door.
A full day of mid-elevation Manu-road birds. Quetzals, tanagers and the cock-of-the-rock.
Quetzals, tanagers and the cock-of-the-rock.
The cock-of-the-rock lek at dawn and tanager flocks.
A final morning in Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
The dry season — the best Andes and cloud-forest travel.
A year-round Andean hub.
A restored colonial palace facing the Qorikancha, Cusco's finest heritage hotel.
The classic cloud-forest lodge on the Manu road, beside a cock-of-the-rock lek.
A converted 16th-century monastery in the heart of old Cusco.
A comfortable, reliable hotel near the Plaza de Armas.
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