Today we’ll wake up early, at around 5:30 a.m., and have tea or coffee before setting off to the famous Lake Sandoval (we’ll prepare a packed breakfast and snack for you to take on the excursion). 

After roughly 20 minutes of travel on the river Madre de Dios, we’ll arrive at the landing stage of Lake Sandoval. Then we’ll set off on a 3 km hike through the jungle, heading into the Tambopata National Reserve. Here we’ll see giant trees, snakes...

After breakfast we’ll take a 20-minute boat trip downriver to a typical chacra, or farm, owned by a local family. Here we can see and taste different seasonal tropical fruits as well as other native products such as cacao, banana, cocona, breadfruit, noni, yucca, lime and more. The farm belongs to a traditional rural family, who, like many farmers in the region, sell their products in the main markets of Puerto Maldonado. 

After spending some time at the farm, we&rs...

Today we’ll wake up at dawn for a trip to a clay lick, which are particularly famous in this part of the Amazon. Due to the great location of the lodge, we only have to walk for 20 minutes to reach the clay lick, where we can watch three to five different types of parrots. They come to the clay lick to ingest a particular kind of clay, only found in certain areas of this region, which is vital for the metabolic regulation of these colorful birds. 

We’ll return...