Example Itinerary
Below is an example 8-day itinerary (shorter or longer trips available). The itinerary can be customized to your liking on arrival. You are also encouraged to include specific interests in the 'comments & special requirements' section upon booking.
The rate includes all in Amazon (all transfers, lodging, meals, private guide, excursions customized to your liking, gear such as jungle boots, WiFi, entrance fees, conservation fees, port taxes, etc.).
Optional expenses only: cola or beer drinks, souvenirs, tips, laundry.
Day 1
Trip starts after arrival of people on LA 2240, scheduled to arrive just past noon.
Transfer in from airport or hotel
If airport: Look for our booth in the baggage area of Iquitos Airport, by the restrooms, with our logo (head of a hoatzin bird in a diamond shape).
If hotel: please let us know the address for where to pick you up.
Speedboat transfer (note–is 4 hours) up the Amazon, then the Tahuayo tributary to our lodge.
Evening excursion
Lunch, Dinner
Days 2-4
At the Tahuayo Lodge
Your choice of guided excursions in and around the Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo Reserve. Every day your guide will discuss a selection of activities that you can choose to do. There is no extra cost for private guide or customizing your itinerary to your needs and interests.
The main lodge has the greater variety of excursions of our two lodges.
The following is but a sample list of activities to choose from:
- The Canopy Experience
- Hike into varzea forest behind lodge; highly probable to see pygmy marmosets, owl monkeys, yellow-crowned brush tailed rats, wire-tailed manakins. Also possible to see black tamarins, saddle-backed tamarins, trogons.
- Hike to Lake Tapaje, explore by canoe.
- Canoe into tahuampa forest (flooded forest), canoe past giant ficus trees, see hoatzin birds, horned screamers, look for caiman on observation platform.
- Motorboat to terra firme forest, hike into frog valley. See beautiful little poison dart frogs, which were studied by scientists from Uppsala University (Sweden).
- See bat cavity (huge tree whose center has rotted out); braver people can crawl through bat cavity.
- Motorboat to Lake Charo to view pink dolphins, swimming in lake. En route look for squirrel monkeys, sloths, raptors. Fish for piranha.
- Visit native village of El Chino.
- Visit artisania cooperative.
- Visit with shaman (subject to his availability).
- Visit farm. Visit school.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Days 5-7
At Amazon Research Center lodge, ARC
The Research Center is more remote. On the boat ride to the Research Center we stop to see bats, sloths, monkeys, raptors, toucans.
We have over 100 km of hiking trails from the research center, most of the trails are laid out in a grid to facilitate the scientific collection of population data. The trails go through several ecosystems, including bajial, high and low restinga, palm swamp and terra firme. We can see many different species of monkeys, including brown and white capuchins, saki monkeys, titi monkeys, squirrel monkeys, pygmy marmosets, moustached tamarins, saddle-backed tamarins, and sometimes uakaris, as well as giant tayra weasels and tamandua anteaters. Data collected from camera traps also reveal a high density of jaguar live here but these are rarely seen.
You can participate in our saki monkey project.
Boating the various lakes and rivers from the research center we often see caiman as well as the highly endangered giant river otters.
Hiking to Lake Yarina (full day) we can see hoatzins on their nests, blue and yellow macaws and caiman.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 8
Morning return to the main lodge
Afternoon boat to Iquitos
Transfer to airport or hotel
Breakfast, Lunch
The Two Lodges
The Tahuayo Lodge (main lodge)
Cabins have private bathrooms
Greater variety of activities
The Research Center Peru Lodge (ARC)
Cabins have shared bathrooms
Better hiking, over 50 miles of trails through a variety of ecosystems
More wildlife
Lodge is more remote, in more pristine forest
