PUERTO MALDONADO
TAMBOPATA NATIONAL RESERVE AND HEATH RIVER WILDLIFE CENTER
Usually we have daily commercial flights from Lima (2 hours) and Cusco (30
minutes) brings you to Puerto Maldonado, a bustling frontier town and the
gateway to the Tambopata National Reserve.
Just to arrive our resident naturalist guides will meet you
as you leave the airport arrivals area, and will remain with you until you
return to the airport to board your flight back to Cusco or Lima.
To this Amazon reserves lie only a 25minute flight from Cusco,
the great Tambopata Madidi wilderness on the Perú Bolivia border. Taken together
these parks are two thirds the size of Costa Rica and protect the most species
rich natural habitats in the world (January 1994 and march 2000 cover stories,
National Geographic Magazine) The great Heat River provides the fastest and
easier route to the uninhabited care of these parks, a vast 2.5 million acre (One
million Hectares) wilderness full of the five top predators of the Amazon
Jaguar, Giant otter, black caiman, harpy eagle and anaconda.
The unhunted region of Manu (The other great Peruvian nature reserve) is only
750,000acres (300,000 hectares) and demands more money and time to visit.
The Heath River features the world´s most accessible large macaw lick, which has
registered up to 260 large macaws in one day, making it one of the five largest
recorded macaw licks in the world.
Though all five of these licks are spectacular, the Heat lick
is by far the most economical to visit, making it ideal for a short Amazon
itinerary to combine with the Inca sites of Cusco and Machupicchu. The Heath
lick is the only one of the five that can be reached the same day that you fly
by jet from Cusco.
To four hours by river from Puerto Maldonado airport, heat river wildlife center
is the gateway to the largest uninhabited and unhunted rainforest in the Amazón.
An immensely photogenic macaw clay lick, capybaras, oxbow lakes with giant
otters, hundreds of birds and mammal species and lodge 100% owned by the Ese´eja
Indians of Sonene make the Heat the best combination of nature and culture in
the entire Amazon.
-Tour
to Untouched Peruvian Jungle of Tambopata River short program
(3 days/ 2 nights)
