Of all the lodges, only 3 are local owned, the other lodges belong to foreigner people from other countries and cities. So, you may say, why is that? How can a local people whom own the land cannot start a tourism business in their own land?
This is something that happen very often, if you check other countries where tourism is develop like Costa Rica or Belize, this happens same as in here, in Puerto Maldonado.
Chuncho Lodge, as part of its responsibilities to the community, the city, and the country, organizes an all-expenses-paid trip to our lodge every year, thanks to our tourists, to all of you who visit us, who make it possible for us to help raise environmental awareness. This year, 2025, we brought 28 students and 2 teachers from the Dos de Mayo school of Iberia. This is an small town near Brazil border were most of the population works in farms and timber extraction. This is the home town and school were the boss and owner of our organization has studied.
Chuncho Lodge understands that the parents of this national school do not have the necessary resources to cover a trip like the one we provided, since our service was the same as for any of our tourists. Therefore, we covered 100% of the cost.
So, the company will always be very grateful to the guests who visit us, as they help us reach new generations with positive educational activities that reinforce our commitment to being an ecolodge with environmental awareness and responsibility.
I must also thank two organizations that helped us make the educational talks with scientists and educational materials possible, highlighting Chuncho Lodge’s work with the students of the Dos de Mayo School of Iberia. These organizations were Fauna Forever and Wilderness International. In the end, the park rangers of the Tambopata National Reserve also joined us, and together we ensured that these young people had an unforgettable experience.
Chuncho Lodge embraces this commitment as part of the responsibility that every company that loves its culture, its habitat, and Mother Nature should have: to protect and teach future generations to care for it.
Finally, I want to thank the entire Chuncho Lodge team, from the kitchen staff to the caretakers, waiters, drivers, and guides, as well as the scientists and park rangers, for helping me to help others.
Chuncho Lodge knows that you can only care for and protect what you know and love. We hope we achieved that goal with the students.
This year, 2026, we want to offer another environmental education course, and we will! Please, fellow tourists and visitors to our rainforest, help us. Together, we can do so much to protect our planet.
Thank you all! ……kindly
Jorge Borja
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
CHUNCHO LODGE
Trade name: Chuncho Lodge
Legal name: Turismo Borja E.I.R.L
These Terms and Conditions govern the commercial relationship between Turismo Borja, a tour operator based in Peru operating under the trade name Chuncho Lodge, and the final customer who books our services directly through our website or other direct sales channels.
By making a reservation, the customer fully accepts these Terms and Conditions.
4.Cancellation Policy
All cancellations must be submitted in writing via email to reservas@chuncholodge.com.
Reservations are confirmed once a prepayment per person has been received. By confirming a reservation, guests agree to the following cancellation terms:
High Season (April–October)
Low Season (November–March)
Chuncho Lodge reserves the right to request partial or full payment of the total program cost at any time, based on operational requirements.
Cancellations made 7 days or less prior to the program start date, including:
will be charged 100% of the total program cost.
Any outstanding balance must be settled prior to or upon arrival.
Chuncho Lodge shall not be held responsible for changes, delays, or cancellations caused by circumstances beyond its control, including but not limited to:
In such cases:
The confirmation of the reservation and payment of the prepayment constitute the full, express, and irrevocable acceptance of these Terms and Conditions by the client.
We have professionals working with us, we have the best staff of the area. We are very proud of all of them, 95% of all our staff is local, we train them to provide a hight quality service to all our customers, we prefer locals because we know the families they belong to and the place were they live contributing with the local economy and using our reserve as source of income for our families.
Our property is in the best place for wildlife, adjacent to the national reserve and all our trails where made in the best way to increase the animal sighting while the jungle walks, we understand that the amazon is a vast place making an enormous macro habitat, but we also know that there is in the whole macro habitat micro habitats and so our trails are made crossing these micro habitats and our customers can have better place to see the most wildlife.
Before starting the tour company all the members of our staff worked in the tourism field for many years, especially the manager who founded the enterprise as part of his dreams. He has worked 13 years in tourism as a tour guide with great success leading groups in several expeditions into the jungle, years as a freelance tour guide in most of the local lodges make him increase experience and see what is the best for the tourist.
All these years of experience are very important to build a sustainable bussines, we understand that experience is very important for a good work with the customers.
Chuncho Lodge is located at about 5 hours from Puerto Maldonado by river, for to go to our lodge we will have to use an outboard engine of 60 horse power, this means the use of 70 gallons of gasoline plus an extra special oil for to mix with the gasoline. The use of this amount of gasoline increase the rates of the tour packages and the time to reach our place is long. We are an eco-lodge an obviously want to do as much as is possible for to burn the less petrol, this is why we do it by car.
