Manu Amazon Tour and Ayahuasca 4D/3N
Duration
3 days
Max People
15
Min Age
18+
Pickup
Hotel
Manu Park is one of the most inhospitable and diverse places on the planet. This 4-day tour to the protected area allows you to see colorful birds, reptiles, mammals, Amazonian trees and to heal and learn from the teachings of Grandmother Ayahuasca.
This tour to Manu begins in Cusco, a city that is also the center of operations for a tour to Machu Picchu, the rainbow mountain and the Inca Trail. Delve into the Alto Madre de Dios River basins and observe the wildlife that this national park has to offer.
We will combine your 4-day Manu tour with 1 Ayahuasca ceremony, either on the first night or the last night of your tour. In addition to being operators of the Inca Trail, Machu Picchu and Manu Tours, we are dedicated to performing ceremonies and retreats with Ayahuasca. Our brands are IncaGo Expeditions and Ikaro Ayahuasca Retreat.
Highlights of our 4-day Manu Tour
- Our guides are specialists in the observation of flora, birds and animals in Manu.
- Our lodges are located in the middle of the forest and have all the comforts.
- Our food is served buffet style.
- We will provide an specific diet for your Ayahuasca ceremony.
- At least one day our chef will surprise you with a typical meal from the Manu jungle.
- We have the best and most passionate team of workers.
- Be part of our social and environmental projects.
- With our unique itinerary combine the Manu Tour and 1 Ayahuasca ceremony.
- In addition to all the above, we prepare food for our people and team with 100% organic veggies purchased from local producers.
- Our Manu Amazon Tour and Ayahuasca Ceremony has a fair and cheap price compared to other operators.
Trip Overview of our 4-day Manu Tour
- Tour Type: Manu Jungle Tour
- Good for: Those in moderate shape or better
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Season: All year around
- Consideration: Book ahead of time
Tour Plan
- Elevation: From 3300 to 550 meters
- First day Distance: 220 km / 136.702 miles (12 hours)
- Considered: You Will make many stops to spot birds and monkeys
- Meals: Breakfast, snacks, lunch, dinner! All served as buffet
- Weather: Cold in the beginning and then hot and humid
This 4-day tour to Manu begins with a pick-up from your hotel in Cusco at 5 am. Then you will head for 1 hour and 45 minutes to Ninamarca, a small pre-Inca archaeological site. Here the guide will give you an explanation about the place and show you interesting aspects of the Andes, before entering the Amazon. 20 minutes later you will arrive at the town of Paucartambo where you will have breakfast and visit its small main square, which is full of sculptures of dancers since this is one of the towns with the most fervent festivities in honor of the Virgin Carmen.
Then you will head for 40 more minutes to the highest point of the tour. This point is called Tres Cruces de Oro and has one of the most beautiful sunrises on the planet. At this point you will stop to observe the beginning of the Amazon rainforest from the deer trail lookout and you will officially register to enter the park and explore the Manu tour.
Afterwards you will descend for about 30 minutes to a specific place on the road, from where you will take a walking tour and observe birds such as the Andean Quetzal, the cock-of-the-rock, the watchmaker, eagles, monkeys and perhaps a spectacled bear. During this entire tour, the guide will show you the birds with binoculars and a telescope, in addition to explaining the behavior of each bird you can observe. After this tour of approximately 2 hours, you will have a picnic lunch at a place called Rocotal.
After lunch you will continue descending taking short walks to observe more birds in the high jungle area of the Manu tour. Around 5 pm you will arrive at the first lodge of the tour. Your guide will show you to your rooms and after a well-deserved rest and shower, your cook will prepare a happy hour and buffet dinner.
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* This first day of the Manu tour will be primarily bird watching along the way.
- Elevation: From 550 meters to 350 meters
- Considered: You will do a lot hiking into the forest
- Meals: Breakfast, snacks, lunch, dinner! All served as buffet
- Weather: Hot and humid
You will be woken up by your tour guide at 5 am in the morning in order to explore the Manu jungle tour. You guide will offer you an organic coffee to you wake up in a better way. Once you are ready your cook will serve you a yummy buffet breakfast. You will be driven for 45 minutes to a place called Inkamazonia, where you will be able to spot with your guide more than 10 species of Manu tour hummingbirds in only 20 minutes, you can also see in that place tanagers, toucans, the king vulture, tarantulas and emerald boa.
Then you will continue 30 minutes to the Atalaya port to navigate for 20 minutes the Alto Madre de Dios River in order to go the lodge. Then you will ride the boat for 30 minutes to go to the oxbow lake Machuwasi where you will hike to watch capybaras, alligators, hoatzins and Camungos (Anhima cornuta). After exploring this Manu lake, you will come back to the lodge to have a well deserved buffet lunch.
After some rest, in the afternoon you will go to explore the jungle of the Ceiba, this jungle will give you the chance to spots some birds like the Paujil (Crax globulosa), and and see a huge 400-year-old ceiba tree; these trees are known as the giants from the Amazon Forest, because they can reach up to 60 meters. Exploring this jungle your guide will also talk and explain you about the amazing Manu jungle biosphere and the importance of these forest for the entire planet.
To end your second day exploring the Manu tour You cook will prepare a delicious happy hour and a buffet dinner. To do some digestion you will do a 45 minutes hike at night to spot some snakes, frogs and tarantulas.
** This Manu tour on its second day will immerse you into the deep amazon jungle of the cultural zone of the national park.
- Elevation: From 350 meters to 550 meters
- Considered: Ayahuasca ceremony in the Manu jungle
- Meals: Breakfast, snacks, lunch! All served as buffet
- Weather: Hot and humid
To start the Manu Amazon tour, you will be woken up by your guide very early so you will have the chance to observe a colorful spectacle. You will be on the motor boat for 30 minutes until you arrive to the parrot clay lick. This salty cliff receives tens of parrots every day, of course as parrots gather there to eat salt their predators like eagles will be close. Then you will come back to the lodge to have a delicious breakfast. You will explore the train of the lodge, to try to see some animals and birds you may miss on the first days in the Manu rainforest tour.
After lunch you will be transported 20 minutes by boat and then 1 hour by car to Patria, San Fernando where we have our lodge in order to perform your Ayahuasca ceremony in the Manu tour. You will have a session with our shamans to talk about the ceremony and get many insides about it. You will have time to focus on your intentions and meditate before your Ayahuasca ceremony.
The Ayahuasca ceremony will start at 7 pm and will last for 4 to 5 hours, the ceremony is carried our by our shaman who is playing instruments and chanting Ikaros during the ceremony. Also is going to be with you a coordinator who is going to be all the time helping the patience during the Ayahuasca ceremony.
** This Manu tour and Ayahuasca ceremony gives you a perfect chance to explore the Amazon Forest and experience its millennial medicine.
- Elevation: From 350 meters to 3350 meters
- Considered: Ayahuasca ceremony interpretation
- Meals: Breakfast, snacks, lunch! All served as buffet
- Weather: Hot and humid
In the morning you will have a very delicious and nutritious breakfast to recover energies after the Ayahuasca ceremony in Manu. You will have a meeting with the shaman to do the integration and interpretation of the experience and visual you had during the ceremony. Later you will go to the river to do a flowering bath in order to clean all low vibrating energy.
This Manu rainforest tour and Ayahuasca ceremony will finish with a amazon food cooking class, your chef will teach you how to cook a very typical dish from the Peruvian Amazon. The chef may teach you to prepare a Pacamoto, Juane, Tacacho, Palmito, Chapu and many other things, it will be a surprise.
** 4 days exploring the Manu Amazon and having an Ayahuasca ceremony.
Included/Excluded
- Van transport from Cusco to Manu Park to Cusco.
- Motor boat ride for all excursions in the Manu tour.
- Entry ticket to the cultural zone of Manu Park.
- 3 buffet breakfasts, 4 buffet lunches and 3 buffet dinners (all food restrictions and requirements available).
- If you are only doing the 4-day Manu Tour, the menu will include a meat diet. However, if you are doing the Manu Tour with an Ayahuasca ceremony included, we will provide you with a vegetarian and protein-rich diet menu.
- 1 Ayahuasca ceremony
- Water as much as you need.
- Specialist jungle tour guide equipped with binoculars and telescope.
- Rubber boots to explore the Manu jungle tour.
- Amazon food cooking class in our lodge.
- 3 nights of lodge
- Duffels bags to pack essentials things you will need on the 4-day Amazon tour.
- First breakfast
- Last dinner
- Sodas and alcoholic drinks
- Tips
- Souvenirs
Global Discount
| Min - Max (Persons) | Adult Price |
|---|---|
| 10 - 20 | $ 270.00 |
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