Jungle Tours

The great biodiversity of this national park is due to it starting in the eastern slopes on the Andes and plunging down into the lowlands, thus covering a wide range of cloud forest and rainforest inhabitats. The most progressive aspect of the park is the fact that so much of it is very carefully protected, a rarity anywhere in the world.

After Perú introduced protection laws in 1973, Unesco declared Manu a Biosphere Reserve in 1977 and a World Natural Heritage Site in 1987. One reason the park is so successful in preserving such a large tract of virgin jungle and its wildlife is that it is remote and relatively inaccessible to people, and therefore has not been exploited by rubber tappers, loggers, oil companies or hunters.

It is illegal to enter the park without a guide or an official tour operator. The best time to go is during the dry season (May to December).

Virgin jungle lies up the Rio Manu northwest of Boca Manu, one of the park´s largest and most beautiful lakes, where there are guided camping and hiking possibilities, with patience wildlife is seen in most areas. This is not a wide-open habitat as is the African plains. The thick vegetation will obscure many animals, and a skilled guide is very useful in helping you to see them.

During a one-week trip, you can reasonably expect to see scores of different birds species, several monkey species and possibly a few other mammals Jaguars, tapirs, giant anteaters, tamanduas, capybaras, peccaries and giant river otters are among the common large mammals of Manu. But they are elusive, and you can consider a trip very successful if you see two or three large mammals you might see include kinkajous, pacas, agouties, squirrels, brocket deer, ocelots and armadillos. Other animals include river turtles and caiman (which are frequently seen), snakes (which are less often spotted) and a variety of others reptiles and amphibians.

Manu National Park 3 days

We leave from Cusco by private bus, first stopping to visit the pre Inca burial towers of Ninamarca. We then drive through the mountains, to get to the typical and folkloric town of Paucartambo. Here we will have a short walk around town before carrying on to Ajanaco, the highest point and entrance to Manu National […]

Manu National Park 4 days (return fly Boca Manu)

After breakfast we will continue by private bus to Atalaya Port. On the way we will stop to observe a coca plantation, we will also stop at a view point where you can get a good overview of the jungle and river. From Atalaya we leave by motorized boat to Aguas Calientes, where you can bath in the nature hot springs […]

Manu National Park 4 days

We will leave early * to visit the parrot clay lick* and after breakfast we will continue by boat, stopping to visit the native community Shintuya on the way. Before lunch we will walk in the jungle for several hours and see different animals, birds such as tiger heron, eagle, flycatcher, kingfisher etc. and many different […]

Manu National Park 5 days (Expedition)

We walk thought the jungle to the agues Negras River, bringing all the equipment including food. On the way we will appreciate many different kinds of animals; such as tapir, collared peccaries, monkeys, coati; birds such as eagles, parrots, toucans, medicinal plants, flowers, and the giant trees of the jungle  […]

Manu National Park 5 days (Clay lick Macaw)

After breakfast we will continue by Boat River up still bonanza Campsite, we will explorer in this day; we’ll walk in the jungle for several hours in order to appreciate the many different kind of animals, birds, plants and flowers. If we are lucky day, we will see monkeys. In the evening we will come back to the lodge […]

Manu National Park 5 days (Return fly Boca Manu)

We will leave very early to visit the macaw clay lick. We use a camouflaged boat (catamaran) to view the Clay lick where the Parrots and Macaws eat mineral salt. From here we take our boat back to Boca Manu, and in the afternoon we will visit the native community of ‘Isla de los Valles’, here we will fish Piranhas […]

Manu National Park 6 days (Clay Lick Macaw Blanquillo)

We will walk in the jungle most of the day, on the way we will appreciate many different kinds of animals; such as tapir, collared peccaries, monkeys, coati; birds such as eagles, parrots, toucans, medicinal plants, flowers, and the giant trees of the jungle. We will have our lunch in the jungle, and follow that with fishing […]

Manu National Park 7 days

The reserve reaches from the Andes' buttress, east of Cusco, until far in the Amazonian jungle. Its size is about half Switzerland, 180.000 hectares which is the largest and richest reserve of tropical forest of this planet. One of the rare places on the world where flora and fauna proliferate and where men can't be seen […]

Tambopata 4 Days

Created in 1989 by the Peruvian government this protected area of 1.5 million hectares is an "extraction-zone" (rubber, Brazilian nuts and other jungle-products) as well as an eco-touristic area, particularly interesting for ornithologists. It contains all of the Tambopata-falls in one of the most beautiful and best  […]

Puerto Maldonado 4 Days

Puerto Maldonado is the main city in the department of Madre de Dios and was isolated from the rest of the country because of the Andes and the stream of the Madre de Dios for a long time. It is situated between four large natural reserves that are considered to be some of the most beautiful in the world and where are living […]