Peru
When
May to Sept
Price
From 3 000€ excl. flights
(based on 2 people sharing)
How long
5 nights
Ideal length
Far from the Andean peaks, the Peruvian Amazon around Puerto Maldonado shelters some of the highest biodiversity on the planet: over five hundred bird species, thirteen species of monkey, and oxbow lakes where caimans and giant otters are encountered on silent canoe outings, far from any engine.
A walk through the forest to Lake Sandoval, an oxbow lake formed by an ancient river bend, allows visitors to observe by canoe one of the Amazon's last families of giant otters, an apex aquatic predator that can grow up to two metres long.
A metal observation tower, over thirty metres high, provides access to the canopy itself, where most of the Amazon's biodiversity lives, often invisible from the ground. At dawn, a nearby collpa (clay lick) attracts hundreds of parrots and macaws that come to consume the soil's minerals, a colourful, noisy spectacle unique to the region.
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Inkaterra Reserva Amazónica
A lodge of stilted bungalows on the banks of the Madre de Dios river, mosquito nets and private verandas, a private reserve of over four hundred hectares.
Refugio Amazonas
A more remote lodge, accessible only by boat, rooms open to the forest with no wall on one side, for falling asleep to the sound of the jungle.
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