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 kilometers 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.

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 you might be lucky and catch tapirs leave their tracks or even see a jaguar have a morning drink

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 enjoy 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, 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.

If your onwards travel journey allows, you may choose to take one final walk into the jungle before breakfast. The trail leads once more to the Canopy Tower, where the forest awakens in a chorus of birdsong. As the first light of day filters through the trees, toucans call from the branches, oropendolas glide between perches, and hummingbirds flash their colors in the morning sun. Higher up, trogons, woodpeckers, nunbirds, tanagers, and jacamars add to the spectacle. If the weather is clear, the sunrise from the treetops is a view you will long remember. Afterward, return to the lodge for breakfast before beginning your journey back, by boat to the port and then by road to Puerto Maldonado, where we will ensure you are in time for your onward flight to Lima or Cusco.