Our team welcomes you at the airport of Puerto Maldonado and takes you to our office, where you can leave the luggage you don't need in the rainforest. We then board a motorized canoe and travel up the Tambopata River for about three hours – with good chances of seeing capybaras, caimans, turtles, waterbirds and, with luck, monkeys. A box lunch (vegetarian on request) and cold drinks are served on board. After checking in at Finca Sachavacayoc and a short rest, we take an introductory walk into the rainforest, where your guide explains its plants and medicinal trees. After dark, a night walk reveals nocturnal creatures such as tree frogs, insects and the impressive bird-eating tarantula.

We set off at 4:00 am and travel upstream by boat for about two hours to arrive at the Chuncho clay lick before the birds. Breakfast is served on board, and along the way we may see capybaras, caimans and, with great luck, a jaguar or tapir. At the clay lick, one of the largest in the world, hundreds of red-and-green, scarlet and blue-and-yellow macaws and many parrots gather to eat the mineral-rich clay – a unique spectacle. After lunch at the lodge and a rest, we walk for about an hour to the remote oxbow lake Condenado. From a paddle canoe, we look for monkeys, caimans, hoatzins and macaws flying to their roosts – and with luck even an anaconda. Back at the lodge, there is the option of another night walk.

After an early breakfast, we say goodbye to the rainforest and travel by boat down the Tambopata River to Puerto Maldonado – a last chance to see the wildlife of the reserve. At our office, you collect your luggage, and our team then takes you to the airport for your flight to Cusco or Lima.