Your journey begins in Puerto Maldonado, where you are welcomed at the airport, bus terminal or city hotel and transferred to the Chuncho Lodge office. After a short introduction and final arrangements, you set off along the Interoceanic Highway, crossing 48 kilometres of paved road before turning onto an 18-kilometer forest track that leads to the banks of the Tambopata River and the Filadelfia community. From here you will take a short boat ride downstream to the lodge (10 min.)

Upon arrival at Chuncho Lodge, your home for the next couple of days in the heart of the Amazon, you will get welcomed and be shown your rooms. After lunch, your first exploration awaits: a short introductory walk through the forest leading to the canopy tower where you will be able to enjoy the forest from another perspective. Step by step, you rise above the trees until the rainforest stretches endlessly in every direction. From here, the forest canopy is alive with activity — macaws, toucans, and monkeys pass by at eye level.

On your way back, discover life at night during a night walk. The forest reveals a different rhythm after dark, with insects humming, frogs calling, and nocturnal creatures beginning their activities. It is a gentle but captivating introduction to life in the rainforest.

The day begins early, with a 04:30 a.m. departure upriver. As your boat cuts through the mist at dawn, watch the riverbanks carefully: capybaras often graze here, tapirs leave their tracks, and sometimes even a jaguar appears.

At last, you arrive at the world’s largest Macaw Clay Lick. Chairs are set up along the riverbank as you wait in silence for the sky to erupt with wings: parrots and macaws circle above before descending to the clay lick. Scarlet, red-and-green, and blue-and-yellow macaws join smaller species such as blue-headed, orange-cheeked, and dusky-headed parrots. It is one of the most powerful wildlife spectacles in South America. You will be invited to enjoy a picnic breakfast while enjoying this show.

During the return to the lodge, the river again offers surprises, caimans resting on sandbanks, turtles basking on logs, or troops of monkeys crossing the canopy. Lunch is followed by time to rest in the hammocks or you can decide to take a swim in our swimming pool.

In the afternoon your guide will take you on an ethnobotanical walk. You will be introduced to the world of medicinal plants, hardwoods, and the mammals that rely on them. You will have the opportunity to learn how locals use these plants in their daily life and how it influences their life in the jungle.

The evening is yours: rest, enjoy the pool or join another optional night walk if conditions allow, reflect on the day by creating a checklist of species you have seen or spend your time finding all constellations in the sky.

After a delicious breakfast, we’ll be given a packed lunch. We’ll then board our boat for a 1.5-hour trip downstream Tambopata river, searching for more wildlife along the riverbank, capibaras, caimans, turtles and much more until we reach the entrance to Lake Tres Chimbadas. This natural body of water, once part of the Tambopata River, the place offers the opportunity to see animals accustomed to dark, still waters, such as hoatzins, river otters, kingfishers, and much more. It’s a day to enjoy the beauty of nature aboard a catamaran. Lunch will be served there, and we’ll return to the lodge in the afternoon. After 2 hours of boat ride to our lodge, the trip will finish with a swim in our swimming pool and enjoy the night at our comfortable lodge.

After breakfast our car is waiting for us to take us back to Puerto Maldonado, the dirt road across the forest give us a great opportunity to see the interaction between the people and the activities they do which affects the animals behavior and will let you understand why is so diverse the reserve and protected areas vs the areas of humans influence. At the city we will be sure you are in time to take your flight to Lima or Cuzco. (B). B= Breakfast.