REFUGIO AMAZONAS

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WELCOME TO TOUR

INTRODUCTION

Refugio Amazonas is a 32-bedroom lodge four hours from the Puerto Maldonado airport. It is ideal for science enthusiasts, soft adventurers and families. Refugio Amazonas is located in a 200-hectare private reserve within the buffer zone of the Tambopata National Reserve. Highlights include:

Claylicks
Discover a New Species
Canopy Tower
Camera Trapping at a Mammal Clay Lick
Life in the Rainforest
Lake
Natural Construction Rooms
Adventure in Nature
Wired Amazon Science Lab
Children´s Rainforest Trail
Wellness Center

Sustanable

Our company is 100% committed to caring for the environment and the fauna of the place and to its conservation on each trip.

AUTHENTIC

excellence in our services who are with you every step of the way. Eat local Peruvian food, trek the original Inca steps and do it all with the people that know!

Luxury

our years of service to the Amazon tourism industry make us an agency with capacity and with the best services

Comfortable

This service is arranged just for you and your party has the advantage of adapting the pace to your physical condition, but also usually means enjoying all the archeological

ITINERARY

Day 1

Puerto Maldonado / Refugio Amazonas

Arrival from Cusco or Lima to Puerto Maldonado Airport and reception by guide. Our guides are biologists, tourism professionals, or community members. Unless noted otherwise, our guides speak English. We assign guides at 10:1 ratio. This means groups smaller than 10 people will be merged with other groups under one guide. If you would like a private guide or a guide in a language other than English please let us know.

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Transfer Airport to Puerto Maldonado headquarters. Upon arrival from Lima or Cusco, we will welcome you at the airport and drive you ten minutes to our Puerto Maldonado headquarters. While enjoying your first taste of the forest in our gardens we will ask you to pack only the necessary gear for your next few days, and leave the rest at our safe deposit. This helps us keep the boats and cargo light.

Puerto Maldonado to Tambopata River Port. Skirting Puerto Maldonado, we drive 20 kilometers to the Tambopata River Port, entering the Native Community of Infierno. The port is a communal business.

Tambopata River pier to Refugio Amazonas. The two and a half hour boat ride from the Tambopata pier to Refugio Amazonas will take us past the Community of Infierno and the Tambopata National Reserve' checkpoint and into the buffer zone of this 1.3 million hectare conservation unit.

Boxed Lunch.

Orientation. Upon arrival, the lodge manager will welcome you and brief you with important navigation and security tips.

Dinner.

Caiman searches. We will be out at the river's edge at night, scanning the shores with headlamps and flashlights to catch the red gleams of reflection from caiman eyes.

Overnight in Refugio Amazonas. (L-D)

Day 2

At Refugio Amazonas

Canopy tower: A thirty minute walk from Refugio Amazonas leads to the 25 meter scaffolding canopy tower. A bannistered staircase running through the middle provides safe access to the platforms above. The tower has been built upon high ground, therefore increasing your horizon of the continuous primary forest extending out towards the Tambopata National Reserve. From here views of mixed species canopy flocks as well as toucans, macaws and raptors are likely.

Breakfast.

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Farm Visit and Ethnobotanical Garden: Five minutes downriver from the lodge lies a farm owned and managed by charismatic Don Manuel from the neighboring community of Condenado. He grows a variety of popular and unknown Amazon crops – just about every plant and tree you see serves a purpose. He has also identified and cultivated many of the medicinal plants used in the region in a little backyard garden.

Brazil nut trail and camp:

A few minutes hike from the lodge is a beautiful old growth patch of Brazil Nut forest that has been harvested for decades (if not centuries) where the precarious remains of a camp used two months a year by Brazil Nut gatherers can still be experienced. We will be demonstrating the whole process of the rain forest's only sustainable harvested product from collection through transportation to drying.

Lunch.

Condenado Oxbow Lake:

A forty minute hike takes you Condenado Lake. You paddle canoes around the lake looking for lakeside wildlife such as hoatzin and caiman, hoping to see the otters which are infrequently seen here. You will also be rewarded with overhead sightings of macaws.

Dinner.

Night walk:

You’ll have the option of hiking out at night, when most of the mammals are active but rarely seen. Much easier to find are frogs with shapes and sounds as bizarre as their natural histories. Overnight in Refugio Amazonas (B-L-D)

Day 3

Refugio Amazonas / Puerto Maldonado (Cusco or Lima)

Breakfast.

Transfer Boat – Refugio Amazonas to Tambopata River Port.
Transfer Tambopata River pier to Puerto Maldonado headquarters.
Transfer Puerto Maldonado headquarters – Airport. We retrace our river and road
journey back to Puerto Maldonado, our office and the airport. Depending on airline
schedules, this may require dawn departures. (B)

Included

Programs based on double occupancy. Includes all meal, accommodations, and services, all river transportation, and transfer from and to the airport of Puerto Maldonado.
Boat Transportation .-All our boats are 20 foot long, roofed canoes with 55 hp outboard motors. Daily arrivals and departures from every port are scheduled to meet every airline´s arrival and departure with a maximum two hour wait.
We reserve the right to change the order of activities

Not Included

International or domestic airfares, airport departure taxes or visa fees, excess baggage charges, additional nights during the trip due to flight cancellations, alcoholic beverages or bottled water, snacks, insurance of any kind, laundry, phone calls or messages, reconfirmation of flights and items of personal nature.
Natural Reserve entrance fee: USD 13, to pay straight at the control station

IMPORTANT

A small rucksack
Lightweight, tight weave long cotton pants & long -sleaved cotton shirts
A fleece and a windbreaker are advisable for cool evenings
Light raingear (poncho) for sudden downpours
Sneakers or other low heeled walking shoes are essential
Sunhat / glasses, sunscreen
Insect repellent is a must,
A water bottle
Good binoculars and a flashlight or headlight
Personal gear, toiletries, cameras,
Your passport, yellow fever certificate and extra money in plastic bags
A few energy snacks will be useful
If you have extra large sized feet we may not be able to find rubber boots in your size for the muddy trails as they are generally not available in Peru, so please bring old shoes for the muddy trails.

OUR REVIEWS

People who stayed in this apartment, have only the best opinions about it.

We toured Peru by car for 2 weeks and were completely enthusiastic about the entire trip. Nora and Mario responded to all our wishes and put together a perfect and individual trip for us: the hotels were great, the excursions were great, the organization was perfect! We didn't have to worry about anything - everything was as described

Migu Tinman

Germany

Andean Origins is a travel agency that is one of the few to offer Fly-and-Drive. We have decided on a two-week Rd trip through southern Peru. Already during the travel planning and preparation we were convinced of the attention and professionalism. We were able to change the suggestions and they were perfectly accepted and integrated. From the arrival at the airport in Lima, to the handing over of the car, to the deposit of entrance tickets in the hotels, everything was thought out and prepared for us. Even during an "incident" on site, Andean Origins was available and took care of us. We were also very enthusiastic about the selected hotels (standard, location, cleanliness,...). Andean Origins remains our contact for the next trip and is highly recommended. In summary: it was wonderful. Thank you for everything.

Wilfried

Germany

We have booked a three-week round trip with a car as a self-driver. All the hotels were excellently chosen the journey very well thought out. We received an exact map (using an app) and were able to navigate very well. Even before a road blockade (strike) we were informed and were able to avoid a traffic jam. The selected guides were exceptionally qualified and quickly responded to all special requests. The excursion to Rainbow Mountain suggested as an alternative was also sensational and very well described. We would book here again and again. Many thanks for everything

REFUGIO AMAZONAS

INTRODUCTION

ITINERARY

Puerto Maldonado / Refugio Amazonas

At Refugio Amazonas