Peruvian Vacations - Travel Peru

LIMA - CUZCO - MANU

DAY 1: LIMA
Meeting and assistance upon arrival at Lima International Airport . If your flight arrives in the morning then remainder of the day at your leisure.

DAY 2: LIMA - CUZCO - MANU
Macaw Clay Lick

Breakfast. Pick up from your Hotel and transfer to the Airport for your early morning flight to Cuzco. Our representative will meet you at the airport. A thirty-five minute flight in a radar equipped twin engine plane takes you to Boca Manu. Here you take a motorized canoe for the 90 minute journey down the Madre de Dios River to Manu wildlife Center to arrive for lunch. The afternoon will be spent exploring some of the 30 miles of clean forest trails that surround the lodge. On these trails you have an excellent chance to encounter some of the 12 species of monkeys, which include the Monk Saki and Emperor Tamarin, which inhabit the surrounding forest. After dinner we will leisurely hike for 60-75 minutes through the night to the Amazon’s largest known Tapir clay lick. We climb up a 17 foot observation platform perched 17 feet above the lick itself where we wait for the lumbering Tapirs to arrive, then using powerful flashlights we observe and photograph them in action.

DAY 3: MANU
Rising before down, we take a 25 minute boat journey downstream to the only large parrot and macaw clay lick in the Manu area. From a floating catamaran blind we are afforded excellent views and photo opportunities as first hundreds of medium-sized and large parrots, and then the large Red-and-Green Macaws arrive to eat the clay. Please note that the clay lick is not as active in May June and July. Returning for lunch, the afternoon is spent visiting one of the two oxbow lakes found in the area. These lakes have populations of a variety of water birds, including the prehistoriclooking Hoazin and also house Glant Otters. After dinner back at the Center there will be another opportunity to visit the Tapir clay lick.

DAY 4: MANU
Cock of the Rocks

Rising at dawn we will explore the forest trails with the emphasis on visiting the fruiting trees which our researchers and native guides have been monitoring. Here we will hope to encounter more monkey species as well as numerous species of birds. Or, we will have an early visit to one or both of the lakes before exploring the forest trails. After lunch at the Center there will be a further opportunity to explore more of the forest types which can be found in the vicinity of the lodge. Alternatively, some visitors may wish to spend time in special blinds to observe and perhaps to photograph the brilliantly colored dancing birds called manakins. After dinner, those particularly determined visitors can once again visit the tapir clay lick.

DAY 5: MANU - CUZCO
Rising at dawn you board the motor-canoe for the two hour return trip to the Manu landing strip, from which you fly to Cusco. Arrival, reception and transfer to your hotel.

DAY 6: CUZCO - LIMA
Breakfast. Transfer to the airport for your flight to Lima. On arrival transfer to your hotel. Remainder of the day at your leisure. Transfer to Lima's airport for your flight home.

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