16 nights, 4 stops — high andes, cloud forest and amazon birds.
Cusco → Abra Malaga → Manu National Park → Tambopata National Reserve.
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.
Inca Cusco before the descent to Manu.
Transfer to Abra Malaga. High-Andes birding for polylepis endemics. Pass-to-cloud-forest birding down the eastern slope.
Pass-to-cloud-forest birding down the eastern slope. A full day of high-altitude specialities. Abra Malaga's rare polylepis groves shelter some of the most sought-after high-Andes birds on earth.
A full day of high-altitude specialities.
Transfer to Manu National Park. A macaw clay lick and oxbow-lake otters. Cloud-forest and lowland trails for Manu's wildlife.
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.
A full day in the world's most biodiverse park. Rainforest trails, clay licks and night safaris.
Rainforest trails, clay licks and night safaris.
A macaw clay lick and oxbow-lake otters.
Transfer to Tambopata National Reserve. A dawn macaw clay lick and oxbow-lake otters. Rainforest trails and canopy towers for birds.
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.
A full day of Amazon wildlife and photography. Clay licks, otters and night safaris.
Clay licks, otters and night safaris.
A dawn macaw clay lick and oxbow-lake otters.
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 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.
A lowland Amazon lodge in Manu, beside a macaw clay lick and oxbow lakes.
A remote research lodge beside the great Colorado macaw clay lick, deep in the reserve.
A converted 16th-century monastery in the heart of old Cusco.
A luxurious Amazon ecolodge with a canopy walkway near Puerto Maldonado.
A comfortable, reliable hotel near the Plaza de Armas.
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