Bolivia
When
May to Sept
Price
From 2 800€ excl. flights
(based on 2 people sharing)
How long
5 nights
Ideal length
Madidi National Park, in northwestern Bolivia, stretches from Amazonian rainforest to Andean foothills rising over five thousand seven hundred metres, an exceptional elevation range that makes it one of the most biodiverse parks on the planet, with over a thousand recorded bird species and eleven species of monkey. Accessible from Rurrenabaque by a simple boat trip on the Beni River, the park remains surprisingly little-visited compared to its Peruvian or Ecuadorian counterparts.
The pampas region, a wetland on the park's edge, concentrates wildlife that's particularly easy to spot from a boat: spectacled caimans basking on the banks, capuchin monkeys and squirrel monkeys leaping between branches, and a real chance of spotting an anaconda coiled in the aquatic vegetation, especially at the end of the dry season.
Higher up, the montane rainforest, still largely unexplored by science, shelters species discovered only in recent decades. A guided hike across this unique elevation range, from the Amazonian plain to the first Andean foothills, captures the scale of the ecological gradient that has made the park's scientific reputation.
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Chalalán Ecolodge
A community-run lodge managed by residents of the nearby village of San José de Uchupiamonas, huts of local materials on the shore of an isolated lake at the heart of the park.
San Miguel del Bala Lodge
A more accessible lodge on the banks of the Beni River, also run by a local Indigenous community, simple cabins with a direct view of the water.
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