Chuncho Lodge is 100% local owned lodge; in Madre de Dios there are over 20 different lodges, all of them offering tour programmers and services to any visitor to in our region. 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 is owned by a local tour guide who worked in tourism for the last 16 years, our lodge is new, it was founded on April 2nd of 2014, but it was not easy. Here our story. Our first year of operation the entrepeneur Jorge got a bank lone for to buy the land were the lodge is located , the original idea was to do camping tours to be competitive with other tour companies and to have prices lower than the lodges, but the rainy season was not a very good friend of the tents, after a couple of hours of rain the tents were not holding the water outside any more, it was very wild, but the jungle around was always worth the sacrifice. So, we decided to build a roof and upper floor for to have the tents dry and more comfortability, so we did it, but then decide to build some rooms in the place and share bathrooms, it was better and much nice for our customers. But we did not know our first big test was going to come. The flooding January 2015 when we had
Chuncho Lodge is 100% local owned lodge; in Madre de Dios there are over 20 different lodges, all of them offering tour programmers and services to any visitor to in our region.
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.
