The Tahuayo Lodge Tour
From the Tahuayo Lodge, you will explore the Amazon Rainforest’s wildlife-rich Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Reserve with a private guide on a custom itinerary.
On our Tahuayo Lodge Amazon tour, you will be met by Tahuayo Lodge staff at Iquitos airport and will travel 150 km from Iquitos city, northern Peru, and deep into the rainforest. Since 1981, the award-winning lodge has operated highly acclaimed tours of the western Amazon Rainforest to find many different animals and plants.
Researchers have found that this side of Amazonia contains the most wildlife, which makes it a great place to experience this incredible forest. You will experience one of the world’s most wildlife-rich areas to see many different monkeys, colorful birds, interesting reptiles, and much more.
On tours of 6 days and over, you can enjoy both the Tahuayo Lodge and the Tahuayo Lodge Amazon Research Center where you can find a 1000 acre monkey research grid to see different monkeys and other wildlife. However, if you choose to spend fewer days at the lodge, you will be limited to the main Tahuayo Lodge area where there is still a lot of things to see and do, such as canoeing the lakes, wildlife walks, and enjoying the canopy zipline.
The Tahuayo Lodge is one of the only Rainforest Alliance Certified lodges in the Amazon Rainforest and the only lodge in the wildlife-rich Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Reserve. There are enough qualified English speaking men and women guides so every guest can have an itinerary customized to their needs and interests.
If you have specific things to see and do in mind e.g. family tours, photography or bird watching, let us know using the ‘check availability’ tab and we will assign a guide with this specialty.
The Tahuayo Lodge Accommodation
The Tahuayo Lodge accommodation is rustic yet comfortable. The lodge has 15 rooms, and you can be assigned either a honeymoon cabin (single large bed), a cabin with two beds, or a family cabin with one large bed and several single beds dependent on which you prefer and availability.
In addition to the bedrooms, dining room, laboratory, and library, there is also a hammock room to relax and socialize. Some electricity is provided for guests by solar panels and batteries. The lighting at the lodge is provided by solar panels, but it is best to bring a torch just in case. You can recharge batteries using the lodge generator, provided for this purpose. The electrical outlets are for Peru 220v plugs and US 110v plugs.
Dining
The Tahuayo Lodge culinary staff receive frequent compliments on food quality and special diets can be accommodated with prior knowledge. The staff prepares food under hygienic conditions so you can eat foods at the Tahuayo Lodge not recommended in other areas of South America, such as salads and unpeeled fruit.
The Tahuayo Lodge Tour Summary
Choose a tour from 4 days or more, but note that the Tahuayo Lodge also has the Tahuayo Lodge Research Center you can visit, which is located in more pristine rainforest.
With both of these excellent lodges in the Tamshiyacu and with so much to see and do, we recommend tours of a week and over. Because you have the option of customizing your tour, you will first sit down with your guide to discuss your interests and possible itinerary options.
After this, your tour is shaped around you. Please mention any specific interests on our inquiry form and we will aim to assign you a guide with this specialty. As the only accommodation in the Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Reserve, the Tahuayo Lodge provides a base to experience the reserve's rainforest and incredible wildlife.
The Tahuayo Reserve protects a high diversity of species and you will head out with your professional private guide to see many different animals, such as:
- Squirrel monkeys
- Capuchins
- Titi monkeys
- Small pygmy marmosets
- Three-toed and two-toed sloths
- Different tanagers
- Macaws
- Toucans
- Black caiman
- Many different kingfishers
- Iguana
- Pink dolphins
- Brightly colored poison dart frogs
Customize the activities to your interests or let our professional guides suggest a general experience. The activities you can choose from include walks in remote terra firma forest, viewing or swimming with pink dolphins, finding feeding macaw parrots, kayaking Amazon tributaries, visiting Amazon communities, finding poison dart frogs, jungle survival, observing abundant monkeys on our 1000 acre research grid, enjoying our canopy zipline system, and fishing for piranha.
Video Introduction
Tour Info
- Focus Area: Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Reserve
- Duration: 6 days+
- Start Point: Iquitos Airport (IQT)
- End Point: Iquitos Airport (IQT)
Tour Highlights
- Two Unique Lodges & Trail Grid
- You will be assigned a private naturalist jungle guide who will customize your itinerary to your daily needs and interests.
- New Canopy Experience
- We maintain close, meaningful, relations with the local Tahuayo communities. More than just provide employment. We give back. Together with our nonprofit organization Angels of the Amazon & tourism revenue (from lodges) we have been able to give back more than we ever imagined:
- Our Research Center is authorized by the Peruvian Government as an official research station and is considered the major research station in the upper Amazon basin.
- Buffet meals. Satellite-based WiFi (StarLink), hot water, fans are all included. Our lodges are 100% Solar Powered.
- We helped to establish the Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Regional Conservation Area and are still active in its management. Because of this, we are the only business permitted by the Peruvian Government to have a lodge inside the conservation area.
- We have unparalleled access to the 1+ million-acre Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo Regional Conservation Area (ACRCTT). This region has been described by biologists as having the greatest biodiversity yet documented in the Amazon Basin.
- All guides are certified in wilderness first aid, fluent in English, and frequently given classroom training by doctoral-level biologists.
More About The Tahuayo Lodge
- The Tahuayo Amazon Research Center is formally recognized and registered as a research institution by Peru’s scientific council, CONCYTEC (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion)
- In December 2019, the Tahuayo Lodge was granted the Antonio Brack Egg Award (Premio Nacional Ambiental). This is the highest recognition Peru grants for contributions to environmental protection, sustainable management of natural resources. and environmental conservation.
- In 2018 the Tahuayo Lodge became Rainforest Alliance Certified
- The Tahuayo Lodge was the only jungle lodge out of Iquitos to win Trip Advisor’s Certificate of Excellence every year from 2012 to 2020.
- The Tahuayo Lodge was recognized as having one of the world’s top ten zip lines in the December 2015 issue of Zozi Journal
- The lodge received first prize for contributing to animal welfare by the Amazon Cares Foundation in March 2014
- The Tahuayo Lodge was mentioned on the Places to Stay list (page 60) in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic Traveler “50 Tours of a Lifetime.
- A feature article in Science Illustrated describes the trail grid and work at the Tahuayo Amazon Research Center Lodge, investigating population dynamics of primate species and population density of jaguar, as important research in the conservation of these species.
- The Tahuayo lodge was included as one of the world’s best trips in Outpost Magazine’s 2011 Global Travel Guide. One of only 10 trips from South America and the only one in the Amazon basin.
- In the National Geographic Adventure Magazine December 2008 issue, the Tahuayo Lodge was a major part of the lead article 'The Big Trip: Peru.' A photo of the canopy system took up a full page on page 40. On page 42 a discussion of the Amazon Rainforest and the Tahuayo Lodge takes top honors.
- In 2008 the Tahuayo Lodge was once again the top rated Amazon company in Peru according to the National Geographic rating system and once again scored a perfect 100 in client satisfaction.
- In 2007 the Tahuayo Lodge was rated by National Geographic as among the top 160 outfitters in the world. The lodge was rated the top Amazon company in Peru out of only 17 companies to get a perfect 100 score in client satisfaction. The lodge was the only outfitter in South America to get a perfect score in client satisfaction.
- The lodge was named as one of the world’s top ten travel finds in Outside Magazine’s Travel Guide for 2001. Page 40.
- The lodge won Citation of Honor from Peru’s Dept. of Industry and Tourism for 'adherence to exceptional standards in the field of tourism.'
- The Guide to Peruvian Birds mentions the Tahuayo Lodge as the best place in Peru to see the Rufous-winged Wood Rail, the Rufous-necked Puffbird and other species.
- A documentary shown on the Outdoor Life Network on the Tahuayo Lodge jungle survival training was awarded the 'Silver Teddy' as the best Outdoor Documentary televised in 2001. Copies of the documentary can be purchased from the lodge.
The Tahuayo Lodge Itinerary
Rates & Inclusions
4 days / 3 nights
Per Person : $895
5 days / 4 nights
Per Person : $995
6 days / 5 nights
Per Person : $1,295
7 days / 6 nights
Per Person : $1,395
8 days / 7 nights
Per Person : $1,495
9 days / 8 nights
Per Person : $1,595
10 days / 9 nights
Per Person : $1,695
11 days / 10 nights
Per Person : $1,795
12 days / 11 nights
Per Person : $1,895
Notes
- Minimum trip length: 4 days
- Recommended trip length: 8 days +
- No single supplement
- Additional costs apply for camping, survival, fishing, and birding itineraries.
- Tours of 6-days and over include the main Tahuayo Lodge & Tahuayo River Amazon Research Center
Included
- All transfers from Iquitos
- Lodging
- All meals
- Excursions-customized for your interests
- Entrance fees
- Tourist taxes
- Laundry and tips
Operated By Amazonia Expeditions
About Amazonia Expeditions
The Tahuayo Lodge story began in the early 1980s. This is when American biologist Dr. Paul Beaver founded Amazonia Expeditions. Paul had years of prior experience as a guide leading research trips for his students.
First, camping expeditions were organized to the rainforest for nature lovers and adventurers. Then, after 15 years, in 1995 Paul and his wife Dolly began construction of the Tahuayo Lodge in a region of impressive wildlife. Following this success, in 2006 a second lodge was added to the portfolio even deeper in Amazonia and is known as the A.R.C or research center.
The Tahuayo Lodge and Amazonia Expeditions have become one of the leading tour operators in the rainforest. They consistently receive high praise from guests. And the lodge is regularly featured in travel and outdoor publications, including National Geographic and Outside Magazine.