6-Day Bird Watching Expedition Exploring Tambopata National Reserve
Highlights
Tambopata National Reserve, Cusco, Lima
bird, jungle, camping
Private Tour
6 Days
Easy
Dutch, English, Spanish
Description
Sign up for a birdwatching expedition in the jungle of Tambopata and experience night camping in the Malinowski reservation area for views of the world's biggest clay lick center, Collpa Chuncho. Spot over 600 different bird species and travel Collpa La Torre via boat. See Peruvian curved beak recurvebill Ucayale during an evening walk through the trails of granting Hell surrounding the Oxbow Lake.
Itinerary
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Day 1: Arrival at Inotawa
- Arrive and check-in at Inotawa
- Embark on an Inotawas expedition in the Tambopata National Reserve (RNTAM) and its Buffer Zone (ZA) to observe a high diversity of birds like parrots in their daily activities picking minerals from colpas or clay licks all along the river (Tambopata, Chuncho and La Torre). Among the birds are the macaws - Ara ararauna, A. Macao, A. chloroptera, A. Severa, red-bellied macaw and A. Nobilis, and Mealy Amazon parrots, A. ochrocephala, blue-headed parrot etc. The reserve and its buffer zone is also a site of passage for more than 40 species of migratory birds like Pandion haliaetus, Buteo platypterus, leucorrhoa tachycineta and others.
- Upon arrival at the lodge, we will receive you, and the guide will give the instructions for a better stay and then show you different areas of the lodge and your rooms.
Trochas Inotawa:
- Hike with a guide to see birds like the rare Hormiguero front rufa Formicarius rufifrons birds followers of ants as the Sooty Dendrocincla brown Trepador, the Anthill white throat Gymnopithys Salvini. Depending on the time of the year, we can find boreal migratory birds. Inotawa has a network of 8 km of trails in the surrounding area.
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Day 2: Colpa La Torre and Camping
Early Morning, Travel by boat 10 min to Collpa La Torre, a ravine with streaks of clay needed for the diet of macaws, parrots, parakeets and the occasional mammal such as deer, capibara, squirrels etc. One can observe the 30 m clay wall from a hiding place, which will serve as an excellent observation point. During the activity, one must follow the instructions given by the guide the night before after 2 to 3 hours duration of the activities.
Return to Inotawa for breakfast and then start at Claylick Chuncho. Colpa Chuncho lies within the Tambopata National Reserve Inotawa, and it requires about 4 hours of sailing on the Tambopata River, and lunch will be on the boat itself. The last leg of the boat ride will take about an hour on the Tambopata River. See many extensions that have formed many islands with secondary forests with large gravel beaches alongside views of Orinoco geese, cormorants etc.
After arrival at Colpa Chuncho, explore the place's surroundings near the camp. During this walk, we will track footprints of mammals such as peccaries, tapir, picuros on their routes to the site of Colpas. Predators like jaguars often prowl behind their prey here.
Enjoy dinner and chat with the guide about the next day's activity at Colpa Chuncho.
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Day 3: Colpa Chuncho (Watch Macaws, Parrots and Parakeets - Camp - Walk recognition.)
- Travel to the hiding place from which to observe the activity at psittacids colpeo. You will spot several psittacine species like macaws, parrots and budgerigars. The most representative is the colpa red and green macaw Ara chloropterus, one of the larger species found in Peru. These birds come every morning to provide themselves with a clay ravine before feeding on berries. The activity that lasts from 1 to 3 hours happens in order, first comes to the smaller parakeets and parrots species followed by the macaws. The activities culminate in an exceptional spectacle of sound and colour!
- Return to camp for breakfast. Lunch will be at Inotawa Lodge, followed by a visit to an oxbow lake.
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Day 4: Tres Chimbadas Lake and Bamboo Forest
- Enjoy a 15 minutes Inotawa boat ride and a 40 min trail to experience the mirror characteristic of the Peruvian Amazon waters and the Tres Chimbadas Lake.
- Board a traditional catamaran paddle to explore Oxbow lake. Along with a boat ride, Observe the ecosystem of the lake-related birds like the smallest is Diver Least Grebe, the Anhinga Anhinga anhinga and osprey Pandion haliaetus and others.
Return to the lodge for lunch.
- Walk along the trails of granting Hell surrounding Oxbow Lake in the afternoon, where we can find the Peruvian curved beak recurvebill Ucayale. See how to chisel its beak and search for food by opening the stalks of bamboo, Anthill Cercomacra, to Manu Manu, depending solely on the habitat type. One of the two places we can record is the head carpenter rufa Celus spectabilis. Some migratory species like the Eastern Wood-Pewee and yellow-green Vireo can also be seen here.
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Day 5: Lake Cocococha
- Hike and spot different species of birds at Lake Cocococha. Lake Cocococha is located in the Tambopata National Reserve and has an area of 60 hectares surrounded by palm swamps, shoals and heights that create an ecosystem of high biodiversity. Little human intervention has made the place an essential habitat for feeding and reproduction of several threatened emblematic species of the Amazon, such as macaws, black caiman, giant otters and the heron Agami rare species that nests in the lake.
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Day 6: Return to the city
- After an early breakfast, return to the office in Puerto Maldonado Inotawa and then to the airport where the guide will help you with that required for return to Lima or Cusco.
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Cancellation Policy
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For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -
Refund of 80% of the tour price.