14 nights, 5 stops — the complete bolivian wildlife circuit.
La Paz → Madidi National Park → Pampas del Yacuma → Santa Cruz de la Sierra → Amboró National Park.
Arrive in La Paz, met and transferred to your accommodation. La Paz's setting — a city in a canyon beneath the Andes — is one of South America's most dramatic.
A day in La Paz before the flight to the Amazon.
Transfer to Madidi National Park. Rainforest trails for monkeys, peccaries and birds. A river safari and a macaw clay lick.
A river safari and a macaw clay lick. Deep-forest wildlife by day and night. Madidi's altitude range gives it a species richness matched by almost nowhere else on earth.
Deep-forest wildlife by day and night. A full day in one of the world's most biodiverse forests.
A full day in one of the world's most biodiverse forests.
Transfer to Pampas del Yacuma. A boat safari for dolphins, caiman and capybaras. Wildlife-packed river days and an anaconda search.
Wildlife-packed river days and an anaconda search. Waterbirds, monkeys and dolphins on the Yacuma. The open Pampas reveals caiman, capybaras and dolphins with a clarity the rainforest rarely allows.
Waterbirds, monkeys and dolphins on the Yacuma. A full day in the flooded savannah.
A full day in the flooded savannah.
Transfer to Santa Cruz de la Sierra. A lowland city night before Amboró. Prepare in Santa Cruz for the eastern forests.
Prepare in Santa Cruz for the eastern forests. City comforts between wildlife legs. Santa Cruz is the springboard for Amboró and Bolivia's eastern wildlife.
Transfer to Amboró National Park. Cloud-forest and foothill birding for endemics. A full day on Amboró's bird-rich trails.
A full day on Amboró's bird-rich trails. Lowland and montane birding where Andes meet Amazon. Amboró's habitat range gives it one of the greatest bird lists of any park on earth.
A final morning in Amboró National Park — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
The dry season — clear Andean skies and easy travel.
A year-round high-altitude capital and hub.
A sleek design hotel in the Sopocachi district, La Paz's most contemporary stay.
A pioneering community ecolodge on a lake deep in Madidi, a wildlife classic.
Santa Cruz's grande-dame hotel, set in tropical gardens with a spa.
A spectacular lodge in a sandstone valley on Amboró's edge, superb for birding.
A polished all-suite hotel in the smart south of the city.
A community lodge in the Madidi foothills, strong on birds and forest trails.
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