The Muyuna Lodge is a boutique eco-Lodge located in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, about 87 miles upriver from Iquitos. Its remote position in the Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo National Reserve, and close to the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, makes it an excellent base for exploring the jungle and seeing all the wonderful flora and fauna.
Its 17 wooden stilted cabins are located in front of the Yanayacu River, and each was built by hand using sustainable local materials. The main cabin, meanwhile, has a large dining room where you can relax, eat, and have a beer or two. The Amazon jungle surrounds Muyuna, so a wide range of activities and jungle excursions are available right on your doorstep, and our bilingual guides will always be on hand to ensure you get the most from your time in the Amazon rainforest.
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Your Amazon adventure begins when we pick you up from the airport or you hotel in Iquitos. We’ll then head to the port and board our boat for a beautiful three-hour trip up the Amazon River. When we arrive at Muyuna, you’ll have time to settle in and we’ll show you the various facilities.
Later, we’ll head off on what’s known as the Leoncito Hike, where you appreciate the vast array of flora around the Muyuna area. You'll also see massive ceiba trees, which tower up through the jungle. Keeping our eyes open for local wildlife, we’ll hopefully see pigmy marmosets (the smallest monkeys in the world), squirrels, tamarin monkeys, and howler monkeys, whose deafening roar can be heard from many miles away. After watching the sunset over the rainforest, we’ll head back to Muyuna. Later we’ll go for a nighttime boat trip in search of caimans and nocturnal birds and mammals.
* Please Note That The Exact Activities depend on the season.
Begin your day with a hearty breakfast before embarking on an exhilarating excursion along the Amazon River, where you can swim alongside the enchanting pink and grey dolphins if you are lucky enough! You can marvel at the world's largest aquatic plant, the majestic Victoria Regia, and we should be able to observe iguanas in their natural habitat. After enjoying a delicious Amazonian lunch
After lunch, we’ll take the boat to two more lakes where we can go fishing and catch different kinds of fish, including the infamous piranha! Piranhas aren’t nearly as terrifying as they appear in the movies, and fishing for them is great fun – just watch out for their razor-sharp teeth when you have one on the end of a line.
After dinner, we’ll head out on a night walk in search of huge frogs, which are the anaconda’s favorite food. We’ll also see several species of tarantulas and other nighttime creatures.
* Please Note That The Exact Activities depend on the season.
After an early breakfast, we’ll set off on a visit to the local lakes. We can explore on foot or by canoe, depending on the water level on the lake. Here we can see a huge array of colorful birds, as well as sloths and many monkeys.
After lunch, we’ll head off on another boat excursion to visit Caño where we’ll look for different species of monkeys, especially the howler monkey. We can also observe the Hoatzin, a prehistoric bird found in the swamps of The Amazon.
On the way back, we will visit the wonderful San Juan de Yanayacu village, where we can get to know the locals. They are incredibly friendly and are happy for you to explore their village, and they might ask you to join in with a game of soccer or volleyball.
After dinner, we’ll head out on a nighttime canoe trip, which is a wonderful way to experience the rainforest at night, with its cacophony of calls and other sounds.
*Please Note That The Exact Activities depend on the season.
Sadly, today is your final day at Muyuna Lodge. But we still have one more place to visit! After breakfast, we will head out on a morning excursion with kayaks or canoes to explore other lakes near Yanayacu River. We can then wind down in hammocks or swim in Yanayacu River before our departure.
We will have lunch and you’ll be able to count all the animals that you’ve marked off on your Animal Check List. Unfortunately, this is where your jungle adventure ends, and we’ll make the three-hour boat journey back to Iquitos. When we arrive, we’ll take you to your hotel or to the airport to catch your flight back to Lima. We hope you enjoyed your time at Muyuna Lodge and the amazing Amazon rainforest!
*Please Note That The Exact Activities depend on the season.
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Valencia Travel was amazing to work with, and I would highly recommend them for any new travelers. Special thanks again to Andes (guide) , Maria (agent/coordinator) , and Washington (driver) . Thank you for making this a trip to remember for a lifetime.
Valencia Travel was amazing to work with, and I would highly recommend them for any new travelers. Special thanks again to Andes (guide) , Maria (agent/coordinator) , and Washington (driver) . Thank you for making this a trip to remember for a lifetime.
We truly had an incredle experience from booking with Maria, to meeting Miguel upon arrival at the airport, and of course trekking with our incredible guide Aldo and the amazing porters who helped make trekking much more comfortable and luxurious than we're used to. We couldn't believe the 3 course meals they cooked up. Truly blew us away.
The trek itself is incredible as you're able to see so many Inca sites along the way before arriving to Macchupicchu. The mountain range was beautiful.
Aldo our guide was the best! He was very information and taught us so much about the incas and knew so much about all the trees, wildlife, and fauna we saw along the trek. He's been guiding for many years and thanks to his experience and forethought we managed to catch amazing views away from the other groups of trekkers and were the first to arrive to Macchupicchu making for an even more private experience. I highly recommend Aldo!
Valencia travel is a local company that supports all the locals they employ. I highly recommend them for any bookings!
**tip: definitely give yourself 3 days in Cusco before hiking in order to acclimate to the altitude. We saw a couple turn around due to issues with altitude.
We truly had an incredle experience from booking with Maria, to meeting Miguel upon arrival at the airport, and of course trekking with our incredible guide Aldo and the amazing porters who helped make trekking much more comfortable and luxurious than we're used to. We couldn't believe the 3 course meals they cooked up. Truly blew us away.
The trek itself is incredible as you're able to see so many Inca sites along the way before arriving to Macchupicchu. The mountain range was beautiful.
Aldo our guide was the best! He was very information and taught us so much about the incas and knew so much about all the trees, wildlife, and fauna we saw along the trek. He's been guiding for many years and thanks to his experience and forethought we managed to catch amazing views away from the other groups of trekkers and were the first to arrive to Macchupicchu making for an even more private experience. I highly recommend Aldo!
Valencia travel is a local company that supports all the locals they employ. I highly recommend them for any bookings!
**tip: definitely give yourself 3 days in Cusco before hiking in order to acclimate to the altitude. We saw a couple turn around due to issues with altitude.
The Porters and Chef Filex were exceptional and went above and beyond with all our needs.
I was surprised with a Birthday Cake on our hike, and I had no idea someone could make and decorate a cake in a tent.
It was incredibly mind-blowing.
I highly recommend them to anyone looking to do the Inca Trail.
We are extremely pleased with the service we received.
I give them A++++++
Un’altro aspetto importante è stata la guida per Macchu Picchu, Washington! Super appassionato del posto e della storia, vi coninvolgerà con i suoi racconti e le sue spiegazioni. E’ davvero una guida molto esperta e professionale!
Thank you for such a brilliant trek!
Our chef, Gregorio, "Goyo", had the best food of all of our Peru!! the culinary expertise of this guy whom planned a menu according to our hike plan, carbs and proteins, and we had plenty.. .I mean plenty to eat. The porters (all 10), with leads from Climico, and special mention to Fortunato who would met us at the end of the trail to help carry our personal packs to our porters applauding our days hard accomplishment. Along the entire trail, Wilbur encouraging the porter of other competitors as his "little brother" to continue to be strong as they quickly passed us on the trail. My respect to the team of Valencia Travel, the porters, head chef and his assistant and mostly to Wilbur for delivering an experience that I encourage anyone to participate in. Thank you Wilbur. we the 7 women from California, USA will forever be your "Flowers".
There were some challenges communicating with the office staff with some questions we had before the trek and booking it, though once we had our meeting with Guillermo it was all sorted out.
After a lot of research, Valencia Travel appeared as the most qualitative and professional agency organizing the excursions we wanted to take part in. We signed in for day trip to the rainbow mountain and had an amazing experience. The guide spoke English and shared a lot of interesting facts with us, the food was delicious and the general activity was perfectly organisez.
Thanks to this very positive experience, we decided to do the 4 days Lares Trail to Machu Picchu with Valencia Travel. Waouw. We spent the 4 days talking about how impressed we were about the professionalism of the agency. The trek was wonderful, the nature breathtaking but the most impressive part was the service, the kindness of the staff, their organisation,… Everything is in the details, the camp are very confortable, they even bring you tea in your tent to wake you up in the morning!
The food was beyond expectations. At every meal, we had a salad, a soup, a main dish and once we even had a cake that they baked in the tents! Being vegan, we are always a bit scared that it could be a problem for trekkings, but with Valencia it is not at all! We had some of the best foods of our trip during our trekking!
I am so happy that we did the Lares trekking with Valencia as there is no better way to reach the sacred site of Machu Picchu than by doing a trekking in the nature. It is a very special place and trekking to reach it definitely add some magic to the experience!
To conclude, I would highly recommend Valencia for any activities in Peru, it will make your experience unforgettable!!
At 55 and with a helpful dose of camaraderie from my younger trek-mates, including my 16 year-old niece who managed the ascents and descents with aplomb, I felt a sense of accomplishment in completing the trek, which is more vertical than horizontal and ranges from about 9,000 to 12,000 feet over three days. Hiking the trail does require above-average fitness for the middle-aged. No unmanageable parts but a walking stick, reliable shoes, dependable leg muscles and accommodating joints, a relatively light backpack of essentials, and stops along the way to gulp down the thin air, take in the jaw-dropping vistas, pause for passing porters, and make way for grazing llamas—all are required to push through. So is a large reserve of self-deprecation. Alex and other minders were more than indulgent while keeping us all on the move.
Reaching Machu Picchu at the end was paradoxically awe-inspiring and anti-climatic given the splendor of the journey to get there. At the end of it, getting on the train that deposits and returns the vast majority of visitors in the space of a day, I simply couldn’t imagine seeing Machu Picchu without doing the trek.
If you are hiking the Inca Trail I highly recommend to go through Valencia Travel. Ask to have Elistan as your guide. The porters are treated very well. They have good hiking shoes, and attire to wear. (though if they could get backpacks that include waist straps I think that would be great!). Ask for Luis to be your cook. I have never eaten so well on a vacation. Luis is amazing at what he can cook up on the trail, we are talking three course meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and the food is presented as if it was at a 5 star hotel. Incredible!!!
My only other desire is if Valencia offered a Recipe Book of the meals eaten on the trail. I would totally purchase such a piece of "gold".
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