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	AN-031 Maldonado's Port (03 days / 02 nights)			á
	TAMBOPATA - SANDOVAL LAKE LODGE
				Mother of God Photography: Alejandro Balaguer Tambopata Photography: Aníbal Solimano Guacamayo Photography: Aníbal Solimano
			Movement from the airport of Port Maldonado towards the port located in the Rio Mother of God. During the way there will be effected a brief visit of the city. After 25 minutes of trip for the Rio Mother of God comes near to the beginning of a trail by which a trek will be carried out from 25 to 30 minutes. Then you will come closed to a small channel where there will be approached a canoe that will lead the visitors during a few minutes of trip towards the Sandoval’s lake. The sight that is had is impressive and very beautiful. There the visitors will approach a catamarán that will take them towards the Sandoval lake lodge.
			After The luncheon, and brief rest, the Catamarán will be approached to visit the part West of the Lake. To the late afternoon the macaws come to this zone to pass the night or to remain its nests.Return to the lodging to have dinner. In the night the canoes will be approached to go in search and to admire to the Black Cayman. If there is this moon and the sky cleared is possible to sail for the lake with a wonderful sight.
			Very early in the morning ,call of awakening it stops to visit the lake. It will be possible to to observe the birds, which go out in food search, and with a little of luck, to wolves of river going fishing. Since this species(kind is known on the verge of extinction). The first hours of the morning it is the best moment to see fauna and to obtain very good photographic captures. It is worth a sorrow to comment that during the half day, for the reigning heat, the birds prefer being to the shade and the visitors being not able to be observed very much.
			You come back to the lodging to have breakfast and later, a demostration since the native ones gather, they open and commercialize Nuts of Brazil, a very important product inside the economy of the zone. After the luncheon, time to rest and the part to be prepared to visit This of the lake where it will be possible to to estimate one or more than five kinds of monkeys that live in the area emphasizing the Capuchín.
			Return to the lodging to have dinner and, of being requested by the visitors it is possible to carry out a new visit to the Lake to see Black Caymen or effect a trek across primary Forest and listen to the night sounds of the Jungle.
			After The breakfast movement to the Mother of God river stops to approach the canoe that will transport the visitors towards Maldonado’s port and of there they will be moved to the airport to approach the flight of itinerary with destiny to Lima y/o Cuzco.

	AN-032 Maldonado's Port (05 days / 04 nights)			á
	TAMBOPATA : SANDOVAL LAKE LODGE / HEATH RIVER WILD LIFE CENTER
				Puma Photography: Aníbal Solimano Jaguar Photography: Aníbal Solimano
			Receipt and movement from the airport of Maldonado’s Port was making the port located in the Mother of God’s river. Here we approach a boat to engine to carry out a trip of 04 hours and a half approximately, up to coming to the Heath River Wildlife Center. During the distance we will sail for the Mother of God’s river with direction to the border of Peru with Bolivia. It is important to emphasize that during the distance should appreciate that 75 % of the riveras of the rivers is covered by primary forest this contrasts with the trip upstream in the Tambopata’s river where 15 % it is a primary forest and the rest they are lands dedicated to the agriculture or other activities.
			On having come to the river Heath, the natural border among Peru and Bolivia, we will change boats to the smaller some to go to the Heath River Wildlife Center, lodging which only owners are the community This Eja of the zone, This, certainly, it is the only lodging where the native community is an owner of 100 % of the lodging.
			During the distance we will grant a delicious cold luncheon. PLEASE NOT TO FORGET THAT IS IMPORTANT TO TAKE THE PASSPORT FOR THIS TRIP.
			In the afternoon our hosts, the native ones of the community this Eja, will take us to explore the forest of the surroundings of the lodging and to look for the different kinds of monkeys and hundreds of kinds of birds that they live in this paradisiac place. After the dinner we will explore the forest with our lanterns, including a visit to the small collpa where diverse mammals come to eat the mud that has diverse properties for its diets.
			Early in the morning we will approach our canoe to sail in upstream in the Heath with the destine to an interesting collpa of parrots and Macaws. The trip can last between 45 minutes and an hour. Generally during the distance it is possible to estimate birds and to one or two Capibaras's families in the banks of the river. The capibaras is the biggest and photogenic rodents of the world and giant relatives of the cuy. They manage to weigh 55 kilograms approximately.
			To observe the collpa we rely on with a floating hiding place specially designed for this purpose. In the hiding place we will offer you a breakfast while we admire the natural spectacle that is initiated with the arrival of the small parrots of green color emerald and electrical blue, later the big macaws were coming those from red and green ardent color. The birds come to the collpa to be fed on the clay.
			In some years all the collpas of macaws and parrots of the south of the Peru are less active in May, June and the first days of Julio. It is important have in bill this detail if you are specially interested in photographing these birds.
			After the beautiful exhibition, we will come back to the lodging where our native guide will lead us for a botanical etno-trek across the forest, explaining of how this Ejas they use many of the trees and plants for diverse purposes as natural medicines, as raw material to elaborate his arches and the arrows and, also, in the construction of his housings.
			After lunch and a brief rest, we approach a canoe to go elsewhere of the forest where then to realize a small trek we will find the trees of nuts of the Brazil that measure 55 meters of high place and will learn as the native cut these nuts that fall down of the glass of the trees. This it is an important economic activity that this Ejas they have come realizing for dozens of anuses to obtain resources to survive. Now the ecotourism will be a source of income to improve their standard of living.
			In the second semester of 2002 our friends this Ejas will offer other interesting attractions as a platform in the high of a tree to be able to observe the immensity of the Jungle.
			After the Dinner for those with sufficient forces we will carry out a trek for the trails to observe the night life of the Jungle.
			One time more we will get up very early for the second visit to the Collpa of Macaws. Then we will return lodging to gather our suitcases and to initiate our trip towards the Sandoval Lake Lodge, lodging located on the banks of the lake Sandoval considered by the specialists of jungle as some of the most beautiful lakes and attraction of the Peruvian jungle. A cold lunch is included for the tour.
			After The trip in boat for the river Heath first and then Mother of God, we will come to the beginning of a trail by which there will be carried out a trek of 45 minutes towards a narrow channel where we will approach a small canoe that will lead us towards the Lake Sandoval. After admiring the beautiful one of the lake, a catamarán was approached that us towards the Sandoval Lake Lodge. In the distance we will observe the famous aguajales with palms where specially to the late afternoon the macaws come to pass the night or to remain in its nests.
			In the night we will have dinner and rest in our comfortable rooms with sight to the lake.
			Early in the morning we will wake up to visit the Sandoval’s lake. It will be possible to observe the birds, which go out in food search, and with a bit of luck, to a family of 9 wolves of river. Since this this species is known on the verge of extinction. The first hours of the morning it is, undoubtedly, the best moment stops to see fauna and to obtain good photographic captures of the wolves in search of the fish, its principal food. We come back to the lodging to have breakfast and for those with energy we will walk along the trails explaining on the characteristics of the jungle and medicinal uses of some plants of the place.
			After the lunch, brief time stops to rest and the part to be prepared to visit this of the lake where we will estimate one or more than five species of monkeys that live in the area emphasizing the Monkey Capuchín.
			Return to the lodging to have dinner and, later a new visit to the Lake to see the Black caymen, known like the most strange of the Amazonía.
			After the breakfast we will divide towards the airport to approach the flight of itinerary with destiny to the city of Lima or Cuzco.

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