3 Days Posada Amazonas – Classic Program

This time our  Posada Amazonas classic tour 3 days  will take to one side of the peruvian jungle to Madre de Dios province, capital Puerto Maldonado.  

At your arrival to Puerto Maldonado airport one of our representatives will welcome you and drive you to our headquarters in town.  We will organise your travel boat trip to our lodge in the jungle but before that you need to take the necessary stuff with you and travel light.  You can leave any luggage in our safe deposit and collect this in at your return. This helps us keep the boats and cargo light.

Once we are ready, we will leave our office and skirting Puerto Maldonado, and drive 20 kilometers to the Tambopata River Port.  We will be entering the Native Community of Infierno and before sailing we will get here some snack.

At soon we leave the river port a sensation of excitement will surround us because we are finally getting in our Posada Amazonas classic tour 3 days.  We will be exploring a fraction of this amazing territory, which are the lungs of the planet.  We will be travelling for around forty five minute on a boat ride from the Tambopata Port to Posada Amazonas which is one the community´s primary forest private reserve.

Upon arrival to Posada Amazonas, the lodge manager, will welcome you and take care of you with important information security tips during your staying in the jungle of this Posada Amazonas classic tour 3 days tour.

Most of the staff working at the Posada Amazonas  are biologists, tourism professionals in conservation, or local community members experts on keeping the forest clean. We assign one guide, (all of them are speaking English, unless otherwise requested other language) for a group of  ten people and unless is smaller than ten people will be merged with other groups to reach the total. If you would like a private guide with specific requirements please let us know.

A twenty minute walk from Posada Amazonas leads to the 30 meter scaffolding canopy tower. A bannister staircase running through the middle provides safe access to the platforms above. From the top, you get a spectacular views of the vast standing forest cut by the Tambopata River winding through the middle.

We run a daily presentation on the Infierno community Ecotourism project which is available every night from a staff member and to get you as a participant of our environmental developments, let us know in time.

At night time you will get surrounded by the sound of the jungle or some toucans, parrots or macaws.

After Breakfast, our Posada Amazonas classic tour 3 days, will be at the ‘Oxbow Lake’ to watch some wildlife animals.  The lake, is thirty minutes by boat and forty five minutes hiking from Posada Amazonas.

Once we get to the Oxbow Lake, some safety measures will be given and there you go, you will get onto a paddle boat.  You will be paddling around the lake in a catamaran, searching for the resident family of nine giant river otters (seen by 60% of our lake visitors) and other lakeside wildlife such as caiman, hoatzin and horned screamers.  Otters are most active from dawn to 8 or 9 AM.

Another activities of Posada Amazonas classic tour, are near the lodge, as we can visit the Canopy tower, or a local farm.  The local farm is owned and managed by charismatic Don Manuel from the neighbouring community of Condenado. He grows a variety of plants, trees and unknown Amazon crops thats serves a unique curative purpose.

On our Posada Amazonas classic tour, we can also experience the Ethnobotanical tour, a twenty minute boat drive downriver leads you to a trail designed by the staff of the Centro Ñape. The Centro Ñape is a communal organization that produces medicines out of forest plants and administers them to patients who choose their little clinic.  We will learn about some medicinal plants such as: Ajo-Sacha, Yuca de Venado, Uña de Gato (cancer curative), Charcot-Sacha, Para-Para, among several others. The staff will be kind in explaining us the different medicinal uses of selected plants.

The nightly lectures prepared by the staff of Refugio Amazonas cover conservation threats, opportunities and projects in the Tambopata National Reserve.

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Finished your breakfast, you will get transfer by boat from our Posada Amazonas to Tambopata River Port and after to Puerto Maldonado Headquarters to collect any of your belongings.   

Once you get to Puerto Maldonado Headquarters a staff member will escort you to the local airport for you to get on your flight back to Cusco (according to your airline schedule).