15 nights, 4 stops — manu and tambopata for the camera.
Lima → Cusco → Manu National Park → Tambopata National Reserve.
Round trip · returns to Lima
Arrive in Lima, met and transferred to your accommodation. Lima combines a world-class food scene with Humboldt-current wildlife on its shores.
Explore Lima before the Andes and Amazon.
Transfer to Cusco. Explore the Inca capital and acclimatise. A historic-city day before the cloud forest.
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.
Inca Cusco before the descent to Manu.
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.
Drier inland season — the best window for onward travel.
Warmer, with sunnier coastal weather in Lima.
An art-filled belle-époque mansion in bohemian Barranco, Lima's most stylish stay.
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 grand 1920s hotel with an art collection, in leafy San Isidro.
A converted 16th-century monastery in the heart of old Cusco.
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