This 9 day Peru Rainforest trip is an excellent combination of Peru’s varied and unique landscape. It goes from the extensive coastal desert, the amazing highlands on the Andes, to the incredible lush rain-forest. You will travel through the three great regions of Peru in one trip. Including some enigmatic places like: Cusco the historical capital of Peru and the magical Sacred Valley of the Incas.
You also will discover the exuberant Peruvian Jungle, ending in the majestic spiritual center of the Incas, Machu Picchu. This amazing Peru rainforest trip is totally recommended for all kind of travelers. it is open at any time of the year.
Upon your arrival to Lima airport, our representative will be waiting to welcome you. Look for the sign that says “Top Peru Trips” with your name clearly marked on it. You will be greeted and transported to your hotel.
After after you make it to the hotel, our representative will assist you with check-in to the hotel. Then you will get a brief explanation of the itinerary for the following days and some basic recommendations of the major places to visit. We have no planned activities. So you can relax and get prepared for your Peru Rain-forest trip.
Today, you will have a good breakfast at the Hotel. The established hours for breakfast are from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. After breakfast, you will have a free time to rest. So you can relax before starting your journey.
The guide will pick you up at 2:15 p.m. and continue our guided tour called The Essential Lima. You will visit “The City of Kings” including the outstanding architectural sites of the main square. Where the Government Palace is located, City Hall, the Cathedral and the Archbishop’s Palace.
The tour will continue with a visit to the San Francisco Convent. An architectonic jewel dating back to the 16th century. On our way to the modern area of the city. We will cross the exclusive district of San Isidro. The new financial center of the city. Our tour will finish in Miraflores, where you will visit the “Parque del Amor” (Love Park) an excellent place to take in the beautiful scenery and the fresh air of the sea. The tour takes approximately 3 ½ hours.
In the morning, you will be able to enjoy breakfast at the hotel. We will schedule a time to pick you up at the hotel and transport you to the airport for your flight to Puerto Maldonado. Upon arrival, you will be greeted by our representative and transported to our operation office in the city. where we will register you in order to get the waterway permits (optional to leave your luggage).
In our office we recommend you pack only the necessary stuff you need for your next few days, the main luggage can stay at our safe deposit. Transportation it’s easier that way, and keep our boats and porter cargo light, we provide you duffels at the office if necessary.
Transfer from our office to Tambopata river Port.
We navigate up the Tambopata River for about 2 hours until Sachavacayoc Center
On the way, we have the option of watching birds, caimans, capybaras, and monkeys if lucky.
Box lunch in the boat. In full company and orientation of our guide, we get to Sachavacayoc Center
Accommodation and a Little rest.
After de little rest, we will go for a jungle walk, as an introduction to the nature and get familiarized with the forest interior, wait until it gets dark to do a night walk looking for the elusive nocturnal creatures and critters, like the impressive ground bird eating Tarantula (as big as your hand). Dinner at the lodge
We will visit the spectacular Chuncho clay- lick, the largest in the world, with the three major species of macaws getting together at the same time, and many varieties of parrots, hundreds of parrots come together to eat clay, a special and unique behavior that is only found in this part of the planet.
Early departure at 4 am, then 2 hours on our boat upstream of the Tambopata River; in order to enjoy the best of the parrot show is important to arrive early before the birds!
We will take breakfast in the boat,
Along the journey to the clay-lick we have great chances of seeing capybaras, Caymans and maybe if lucky Jaguar or Tapirs (the two most special terrestrial mammal of the amazon)
We stay in the clay lick area, if necessary until we get to see the macaws eating clay
Return to the lodge for lunch. After a Little rest, we get packed and ready for Sachavacayoc Lake. we will visit the spectacular Lake Sachavacayoc, which is in the heart of the Tambopata National Reserve, at two hours away from the lodge (walking slowly watching things),
Sachavacayoc has very good wildlife such as monkeys, caimans, options of tapirs, Hoatzin, and lots of blue and yellow macaws roosting and nesting all over, this place gives us a unique Jungle experience, no other lake you see so many blue and yellow macaws roosting and nesting,
We get there by evening and right away we take a paddle-canoe and leisurely enjoy the deepest and wildest jungle, watching monkeys and macaws being loud.
On the way back, we return to the lodge doing a night walk looking for Tapirs o just enjoy the spooky- romantic- intense, silent and loud jungle.
After breakfast at the lodge. you will be transported back to airport for your flight to Cusco. Upon arrival, you will be welcomed by our representative. who will transport you to the hotel. The afternoon is free. So you can relax and acclimate to the altitude of Cusco.
After a nice breakfast at the hotel. You will have the morning free to rest and get ready for the next excursion.
In the afternoon at the convenient time, we will pick you up and start our sightseeing of Cusco. The guide will take you to the most beautiful places in the city. We begin this tour visiting the Santo Domingo Convent. built over Qorikancha, the ancient Inca Sun Temple.
Our next stop will be at the main square. which is located near the cathedral. As we travel outside of the city. We will visit the Sacsayhuaman fortress which is an example of military Incan architecture. We will finish our tour visiting the archaeological sites of Qenqo, Puca-Pucara and Tambomachay. The tour takes Approximately 4 hours.
We’ll pick you up in the lobby of your hotel, we then have a 40 minutes of bus drive to arrive to the fertile plain of Chinchero full of farming fields & beautiful landscapes, at Chinchero we will stop to see the locals’ weaving centers and the Inca ruins. We will continue our drive to the town of Maras, which has nice colonial doorways made of stone, unique around Cusco region, 20 minutes later we will arrive to the Inca ruins of Moray called “the Inca laboratory”. The guide will show us this wonderful place and we will walk around.
We then drive to the Salt mines with beautiful views of Urubamba Mountain range and passing by many farming fields we will arrive to the salt pans of Salineras, where we will be able to observe the fascinating salt mine own by the locals, with more than 3000 pools still in production, since many centuries ago. We will have a short drive to Urubamba for lunch. In the afternoon we will visit Ollantaytambo Inca fortress, after to visit this formidable Inca site we will have the train ride to Aguas Calientes.
You will have time to enjoy an early morning breakfast at the hotel. At the convenient time our guide will pick you up to lead you to the bust station. Then there will be 30 minute bus drive to the entrance of Machu Picchu.
You will have 2 hours guided tour of the Citadel. Places to visit are: the Sun Temple, Royal Palace, Temple of the Three Windows, main temple, Sacred Rock and a some store-houses. This will be a great mystical experience. After the guided tour, you will have some free time. So you can admire Machu Picchu from the lower corner, before to leave this great site.
In the afternoon you will take the bus down to Aguas Calientes and take the train back to Ollantaytambo station. You will be transported back to the hotel in Cusco
At the scheduled time, pick up from the hotel and the we will take you to the Airport of Cusco. So you can flight back to Lima. The end of Peru rainforest trip
Accommodations:
We only suggest standard and superior class hotels.
