Useful Information | |||||
Locations Visited: Manu Park |
Starting Altitude: 3400 masl = 11154 Feet |
Highest Point: 4000 masl = 13123 Feet |
Group: Minimum 2 paxs & Maximum 10 paxs |
Physical Grading: 3/5 |
Local Trekkers Peru offers the 4 Days tour in the Manu National Park, this wonderful biosphere is located in Madre de Dios and Paucartambo, Cusco. It is an area protected by the Peruvian government in 1977 and was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1987. It is the largest National Park in Peru, with an area 1 909 800 hectares. It is divided into three large areas: The National Park, with 1,532,806 hectares; The Reserved Zone, with 257,000 hectares; And the Transitional or Cultural Zone, with 120 000 hectares. The park protects several ecological zones due to this topographic range, it has one of the highest levels of biodiversity of any park in the world. In this park there are more than 15,000 species of plants in Manu, and up to 250 varieties of trees have been found per hectare. It also houses more than 1000 bird species more than the number of bird species found in the United States and Canada combined and almost 10% of the total bird species in the world. It also has one of the largest amounts of terrestrial vertebrates found in the tropical forests of Latin America, it is also the last refuge of the largest feline (The Great JAGUAR) of the Peruvian Amazon.
We will leave Cusco early in our comfortable bus until we reach the folk village of Paucartambo, then we will visit the pre-Inca funerary towers of Ninamarca, then we will drive through a cloud forest full of plants and beautiful orchids, we will have the opportunity to observe the national bird of the Peru: Gallito de las Rocas (Rupicola Peruviana), monkeys, many birds and other species and with a little luck, we will see the only South American bear, the spectacled bear (Tremarctos Ornatus). In the afternoon we arrive at Pilcopata, where we will spend the night at the Lodge there will be showers and private bathrooms to cool off.
In the morning we will have our delicious breakfast, then our private bus lkos will transfer to the Atalaya post, Then we will sail for 30 minutes along the Alto Madre de Dios river, during this time we will be able to observe the great variety of birds that this place possesses such as for example; Herons, egrets, vultures of which the most spectacular is the condor king of the jungle (Sarcoramphus papa), we can also see the first Capybaras that are the largest rodents in the world, in the afternoon we will make an excursion and enter the jungle through About 3 hours, and at nightfall our Lodge awaits us, where will we can take a shower and we will take a rest, finally we will have the option of doing a night walk through the jungle.
After our breakfast very early in the morning, we will sail by boat for approximately 25 minutes to the place where the parrots eat clay, in this place we will can see a great variety of parrots and other birds, after this experience we will return to Machuhuasi Lake, where some native rafts await us to navigate the lake for about 2 hours and appreciate different species in the river and in the trees, we will finally do some walks around the lodge in search of other species that inhabit the place.
Finally we arrive on the last day of our tour, after breakfast we will return to the port of Atalaya visiting this beautiful village for the last time, where our bus will be waiting for us to return to Cusco.
PRICES FOR 2021-2022 | ||||
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Number of People for GROUP SERVICE : | ||||
2 | 3 | 4 | 5-6 | 7-10 |
Price USD$ (per person): | ||||
580 USD$ | 560 USD$ | 520 USD$ | 500 USD$ | 480 USD$ |
PRICES FOR 2021-2022 | ||||
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Number of People for PRIVATE SERVICE: | ||||
2 | 3 | 4 | 5-6 | 7-10 |
Price USD$ (per person): | ||||
600 USD$ | 580 USD$ | 560 USD$ | 540 USD$ | 500 USD$ |