Manu Jungle Tour - Travel from Cusco to the MANU rainforest

Breakdown of Travel;
• Start Time: Day before trip, 3:00pm.
• Duration: Approx 6 hours travel.
• Locations on Route: Paucartambo - Colonial Town. / Acjanaco Pass. / Guadalupe Lodge - final destination.

Pick up from Cusco airport or your hotel. To the drive along the Andes (3 hours) passing and briefly stop at Paucartambo village for toilets facilities. (Otherwise we skip the visit of this town for the way back). While keep driving the altitude will keep on increasing and the setting gradually gets enveloped by a cloudy mist. The road leads you to Acjanaco pass consisting in the main gateway to Manu National Park.

Once across Acjanaco Pass (3550 m / 11.647 ft) the environment dramatically changes from dry to wet valleys. Do not miss the splendid view when looking down toward the lowlands and the sunset views!

The lush and misty cloud forest surrounded by massive rocks and waterfalls is perhaps the most fragile and threatened type of rainforest.  arrival to the lodge for dinner time and overnight at Guadalupe Lodge.

Breakdown of Day 1;
• Breakfast at Guadalupe Lodge.
• Atalaya Port - Boat Trip, Madre De Dios River.
• Machuhuassy Oxbow Lake, - 2km Walk.
• Ramble in the jungle, - Giant Kapok Tree, animal wild watch, medicinal plants.
• Macaw Clay Lick.
• Dos Loritos. (Optional).
• Guadalupe Lodge.

Enjoy waking up and having breakfast with the singing of Amazonian birds. You will be transferred to the Atalaya port where you can appreciate the view of myriads of colorful birds and a rich wildlife and drives goes along tropical plantations of papayas, bananas, chocolate and Coca Leaves.

At Atalaya river’s deck, embark in a motor boat and navigate down this crystalline river of Madre de Dios. After an hour, you will reach Machuhuassy Oxbow lake, consisting in wetlands of lush vegetation hosting a large variety of birds (hoatzins, horned screamer, hawk, herons) and animals (monkeys and capybaras). This place is only reachable by boat followed by a 2-kms walk. While you are having the tour, our local cook will prepare a traditional lunch that you will enjoy when returning on the Madre de Dios river. In the mid-afternoon, you will ramble through the primary forest searching for some families of monkeys, peccaries as well as giant kapok trees. In the meantime, you will be provided with some explanations about medicinal plants, reptiles as well as mammals.

We will visit the Small Macaw Clay lick along the river bank while returning to the lodge and optional you will enter a Wild-Animals Rescue Centre run by a local family in Manu. Dinner and Overnight at Guadalupe

Breakdown of Day 3;
• Palm Forest, Bird Watch & Breakfast.
• Dos Loritos. (Optional).
• Drive through the Cloud Forest. Waterfalls, animals. / Journey back to Cusco.
• Arrival in Cusco approx 5pm.

Our morning walk along the palm forest to look for the blue and yellow Macaws and enjoy a tasty breakfast and get ready to pack as you will soon start hit the road again to Cusco. On the way, you will enter a Wild-Animals Rescue Centre run by a local family in Manu. This gives more opportunities to glimpse some more animals and discover the wildlife protections policies and techniques implemented. The way back offers some last impressing views of the exuberant cloud forest. The arrival in Cusco should be around 5pm.