1st Day ..... (Lima) /
Iquitos / Muyuna Lodge (L-D)
You will find easily our staff waiting for you in Muyuna's counter in the Iquitos Airport.
Immediately, the guide will take you to the harbor in nice buses while you look at the city of Iquitos.
Our speed boats will be waiting for you, ready to travel three hours upriver on the Amazon. Muyuna staff will be ready to welcome you with a typical and cold drink after arriving at the lodge.
After setting in your bungalow and having lunch, finally you will start your trip. The check list with the animals that have been previously seen will be provided.
Depending of water level, you will use canoes or walking to the Pungal, this is an area that has several strangle figs, which is the favorite place of Hoatzin birds, these birds look like a prehistoric ones, because they have three hooks in their wings middle articulation, you will be surprised looking at them.
Ending the afternoon, you will see the sunset in the Sapote Lake.
By night, after having a refreshing shower, you will continue with the adventure looking for black and white caimans (jungle alligators) while you look at the stars of south hemisphere.
2nd Day: Muyuna Lodge (B-L-D)
Using canoes you will go to Juanachi Lake, which is hard accessible, because is far and has many aquatics plants that appeared at the entrance, this is the reason why you can appreciated the abundance of fauna and flora. Here you will walk or paddle, depending on the water level, looking the different types of birds like parrots, macaws, toucans, egrets, hawks, ducks, etc, also sloth and several monkeys like the night, squirrel and dusky titi ones.
After lunch, you will make a hiking at the back of the lodge where you can observe the variety of flora that region has. In this hiking you can try the water of the "Urticaria Tormentosa" that has inside its vain (it is said that can cure cancer and aids). Also you will be surprised for the giant ceiba trees. You will have the opportunity to see the pygmy marmoset, the smallest monkey in the world, and if you are lucky, howler monkey, which roar it is listened miles away! In this area we also have seen in few opportunities some felines.
After dinner, you will make a nocturnal hiking to the strangle tree, where live so many species of tarantulas (although their bad fame, they are not dangerous to humans).
Very early in the morning before breakfast, you will make a very efficient bird watching trip. This is the best hour to look for them because they begin their day feeding themselves in the trees. It will be very easy to see parrots, macaws, toucans, egrets, hawks, ducks, etc. The check list will help you to identify the different species you see.
Later, depending on the river level, you will be taken by motorboat to the Amazon River or some of the lakes to experiment the most magical moment of your trip: to see the pink dolphins playing around your boat.
In the way back to the lodge, you will see the biggest aquatic plant in the world, the famous Victoria Regia.
Then visit the Purura Lake where you will find different types of fish, like piranhas, silver hatched fish, etc.
After lunch, your grateful experience in the jungle comes to an end, you will sail three hours back to Iquitos and be taken to the Airport.
Include:
All meals as indicated
Guided tours (English or Spanish)
Terrestrial and river transportation
Accommodations
Not Include:
Air tickets
Airport taxes and tips
Drinks in the bar
Personal Insurance
Important:
Expiration date:31/12/2007
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rates are per person, in US $ dollars.
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