ALL IN ONE 4 DAYS 3 NIGHTS
PROGRAM ITINERARY
DAY 1
Arrival and reception by our guide or transfer at the airport or bus station.
Our guides are highly experienced professionals with deep knowledge of the area and rainforest, we provide 1 guide for a group of max 8 people.
Transfer from the airport to our main office in town.
Upon arrival to Pto. Maldonado City, our Transfer or guide will welcome you and drive you for a few minutes to our office in town
In our office we recommend you pack only the necessary stuff you need for the next few days, the main luggage can stay at our safe deposit. Transportation’s easier that way, and keep our boats and porter cargo light, we provide you a duffel at the office if necessary.
Transfer from our office to Tambopata River Port.
We navigate up the Tambopata River for about 2 hours until Finca Sachavacayoc
On the way, we have the option of watching birds, caimans, capybaras, and monkeys if lucky.
Box lunch in the boat. We can customize your box lunch with a vegetarian option, we also provide cold bottled drinks on the boat.
In full company and orientation of our guide, we get to Finca Sachavacayoc
Accommodation and a Little rest.
After a little rest, we will go for a jungle walk, as an introduction to nature and get familiarized with the forest interior, wait until it gets dark to do a night walk looking for the elusive nocturnal creatures and critters, like the impressive ground bird eating Tarantula (as big as your hand)
Dinner at the lodge
DAY 2
We will visit One of the Nature worlds wonder, the spectacular Chuncho clay- lick, the largest in the world, with the three major species of macaws getting together at the same time, and many varieties of parrots, hundreds of parrots come together to eat clay, a special and unique behavior that is only found in this part of the planet.
Early departure at 4 am, then 2 hours on our boat upstream of the Tambopata River; in order to enjoy the best of the parrot’s show is important to arrive early before the birds!
We will take breakfast on the boat,
Along the journey to the clay-lick we have great chances of seeing Capybaras, Caymans and maybe if lucky Jaguar or Tapirs (the two most special terrestrial mammals of the
We stay in the clay lick area, if necessary until we get to see the macaws eating clay
Return to the lodge for lunch.
Lunch at the lodge.
After a good rest, we get packed and ready for the pristine Condenado lake Condenado (condemned) lake is 1 hour away from the lodge (walking slowly watching things),
Condenado Lake has very good wildlife such as monkeys, caimans, a lot of Hoatzin, lots of macaws fly by going to roost, we also have very good chances to see the elusive and shy Anaconda, this place gives us a unique Jungle experience, with no other people rather than us in this pristine lake.
We get there by evening and right away we take a paddle canoe and leisurely enjoy the deepest and wildest jungle, watching monkeys and macaws being loud.
On the way back, we return to the lodge to do a night walk looking for wildlife or just enjoy the spooky- romantic- intense, silent, and loud jungle.
BASED ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE NATURALIST GUIDE THE LAKE TO VISIT CAN BE CHANGED TO SACHAVACAYOC OR TRES CHIMBADAS LAKE, ANY PLACE WHERE THE ACTIVITY OF WILDLIFE IS BEST ACCORDING TO SEASON AND WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Dinner at the lodge
DAY 3
After breakfast, we take our boat back to
Sandoval Lake, we navigate the Tambopata river (we pass by the city of Pto. Maldonado for 2 hours until the entrance trail to Sandoval Lake. The trail
takes you on a 1.6 miles walk (2.5 kilometers) walk through a successional forest, a former Giant natural bamboo forest, a habitat for monkeys, sloths and
macaws, until we reach a small canal where we board our paddle canoes, we paddle for 100 meters (nearly the same in yards) through a palm-forest swamp,
with an abundance of “aguajes” (mauritia Palms) those palms provide the most popular fruit of the Peruvian Rainforest, highly consumed by local drinks and ice-creams.
Once onto the glass-like surface of the lake, we continue leisurely around the lake to the B&B
A briefing of the lodge at the reception area, and accommodation
Accommodation and a Little rest, at rooms or hummocks
Before dinner depending on arrival time, we set off to explore part of the lake, looking for monkeys or black Cayman (black caimans are the biggest of the Cayman and alligator family, the biggest one seen at the lake 6 meters long/20 feet s) in the flooded palm forest we can see hundreds of Red-bellied
macaws as they return to roost. One of the few species of macaws that lives in flocks and mauritia palm swamps such as the one at
Sandoval Lake.
We also have the option of a night walk into the forest behind the B&B
Dinner at the lodge.
DAY 4
An early wake call and meeting at the lodges ‘dining room to visit the lake for sunrise and a hopeful encounter with the
a friendly family of Giant Otters who are highly active at this time of the lake, Giant otters must eat an average of 8 pounds of fish a day (4 kilos)Sandoval lake offers abundant wildlife including 6 species of
monkeys, black caimans, over 40 species of birds resident on the lakes’ shore, all 5 species of kingfisher of Peru, and the most abundant group of Hoatzin, all the animals here are easy to photograph from the boats.
Return to the B&B for breakfast.
Optional hiking in the jungle or early visit to the lake before breakfast and transfer back to the office and the airport.
A hot water shower at the office is available before going back to the airport.
AD: THE ALL-IN-ONE TOUR CAN EITHER START AT SANDOVAL LAKE OR FINCA SACHAVACAYOC DEPENDING ON ROOM AVAILABILITY
for those interested in piranha fishing you can just coordinate with your guide to do it in one of the several spots for it.
important note:
the names of days of the tour (5 days 4 nights/4 days 3 nights, etc) does not have a literal meaning its just the name of a tour and all tours start when flights arrive, and on last day our shuttle its schedule after breakfast for the first flight of the day, in case you have a later flight we give you full assistance in town until your flight/bus time
unlike most companies in all our tours, we include the Tambopata National Reserve Entrance fee (50 USD pp)
JunglePro tours always have a maximum of 8 people per group*, standard its 4-6 people in order to maximize the experience, which means a much higher standard operational service. the price given its the max price our clients can pay and its full board: Entrances fees, food, transportation, guides, tours, transfers, all payments fees and full 24 H support its included in this max price, , you can get additional 4% discount if you pay cash in USD or the equivalent in Soles
*8 people put together at the beginning of a tour, for groups traveling together or family groups, then the number is unlimited.
Inquire this destination mentioning the nights, number of people and dates to jungleproperu@gmail.com
PRICE: 500 USD
PER PERSON IN A DOUBLE OR TWIN ROOM
650 USD for a Solo Traveler
solo traveler gets a room for itself