Posada Amazonas

Layout

30 comfortable, rustic rooms opening onto nature

Activities offered

The itinerary includes exploration of the Tambopata Reserve with a local English/Spanish-speaking guide:

DAY 1 - PUERTO MALDONADO / AMAZON: excursions

Arrival in Puerto Maldonado.
Arrival and welcome by your guide at Puerto Maldonado airport.
Your shared guide, Spanish and English-speaking, is a professional tourism guide, biologist, or a member of the local community.
Transfer from the airport to the lodge's main offices in Puerto Maldonado, about 10 minutes from the airport, to leave behind any belongings you won't need, making the boat transfer easier.
ð In order to make the most of your Amazon experience, the order of excursions may be changed.
Transfer to Tambopata port.
Box-lunch.
Boat transfer of about forty minutes from Tambopata port to Posada Amazonas, in the Private Primary Reserve belonging to the local community, the “Comunidad Nativa de Infierno”.
On arrival, the lodge manager welcomes you and explains how the lodge operates, its activities and safety rules.
“Canopy Tower”
About a twenty-minute walk from the lodge, you'll have the chance to walk through the jungle to a 30-metre-high observation tower. Accessible by stairs and rising above the treetops, this lookout offers spectacular views over the Tambopata River and the primary rainforest. Watch for various bird species such as toucans, parrots and macaws, which can be seen in flight or perched in the treetops.
Dinner at the lodge.
Ecotourism talk.
You'll have the opportunity to attend a presentation on the various ecotourism projects set up by the lodge for the local community.
Overnight at the lodge.

DAY 2 - AMAZON: excursions
Breakfast at the lodge.
Excursion to Lake Tres Chimbadas.
A roughly thirty-minute boat crossing followed by a forty-minute walk to Lake Tres Chimbadas. You'll then board a catamaran or canoe and take your turn paddling in search of local wildlife, including the giant river otter, hoatzin (shansho), horned screamer (camungo) and caiman.
Lunch.
Ethnobotanical tour: discovering medicinal plants
Twenty-minute boat ride to Centro Nape. This is a community organization that grows medicinal plants, from which it produces remedies. They run a small clinic where they treat patients, and will explain the medicinal properties of these plants.
Dinner
Night walk
Night-time is a key moment for observing many animals that are hard to spot during the day. A night walk through the jungle remains an engaging experience. Among other things, you'll be struck by the sounds of the frogs.
Overnight at the lodge.

DAY 3 - AMAZON: excursions
Excursion to the “Colpa de Loros”
Early-morning expedition to the “Colpa de Loros”, just a twenty-minute walk from the lodge. From a small hidden shelter located about twenty metres from the clay wall, you'll witness a remarkable sight: dozens of multicoloured parrots gathering to feed on clay specific to their diet. This riverbank meeting point for macaws has soil enriched with mineral salts through erosion.
Breakfast.
The Ceiba trail
You'll set off on a 2-hour walk in search of the tallest tree in the area, the ceiba, or kapok tree. During this walk, your guide will share jungle stories as well as the properties of the forest's plants and trees.
Lunch.
Visit to a “Chacra”, a typical farming smallholding
A 30-minute boat ride brings you to a “Chacra” (an old Spanish word for “estate”), the most varied of its kind. The owner cultivates a wide variety of plants, some well known, others less so.
Dinner
Overnight at the lodge.

DAY 4 - AMAZON / PUERTO MALDONADO (flight)
Breakfast at the lodge.
Boat transfer from Posada Amazonas to the Tambopata dock.
Transfer from the Tambopata dock to Puerto Maldonado.
Brief stop at the Puerto Maldonado office, then on to the airport for your return flight. Depending on flight times, a very early departure may be required.Canoe or catamaran ride around Lake Tambopata, exploring aquatic wildlife including caimans and giant otters. Visit to a nearby farm and ethnobotanical tour. Discovery of local flora and local medicine. Dawn visit to the Macaw Clay Lick (Collpa de Aras Macaos), located 20 minutes' walk from the Amazonas lodge. This early hour is when the macaws are most active, giving better chances of spotting them. Visit to a mammal clay lick where peccaries (wild pig species) can be observed. Walking exploration through a Brazil nut reserve, followed by time at the observation point on the 25-metre-high tower.