Manu Rainforest Tour 4D/3N
Duration
3 days
Max People
15
Min Age
18+
Pickup
Hotel
The Manu rainforest tour is a great option for those people who seeks being in contact with nature in a great place surrounded by large rivers, pristine forest and wild animals. This 4-day Manu tour will take you to the Cultural zone of the park.
During the tour, you will have the opportunity to observe an impressive variety of animals: monkeys, exotic birds such as toucans and macaws, alligators and a large number of insects and butterflies. The biodiversity of Manu is astonishing, with hundreds of species of plants and animals, many of them unique in the world.
A tour to the Manu jungle will allow you to connect deeply with an ecosystem that is vital for the existence of life on Earth and that is part of the South American Amazon rainforest and is considered one of the largest lungs on the planet.
This type of tour is ideal for those people looking to experience an authentic adventure in an environment of incomparable natural beauty in a pristine rainforest.
If you want, you can combine your Manu tour with 1 Ayahuasca Ceremony we can make it possible
Highlights of our 4-day Manu Rainforest 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
** 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, your 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 trip, 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. You will come back to the lodge to have a delicious breakfast.
After some rest, the 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. In the afternoon you will go to explore a primary forest canopy in order to spot monkeys, mammals and colorful birds.
** Amazon cuisine in the Manu rainforest tour.
- Elevation: From 350 meters to 3350 meters
- Considered: Last day in the Manu tour
- Meals: Breakfast, snacks, lunch! All served as buffet
- Weather: Hot and humid
After a delicious breakfast you will pack and get ready to make your way back to Cusco. You will navigate for 15 minutes from the lodge to the port of Atalaya from where you will take a car back to Cusco. Along the way you will have breakfast in a nice please where you can post some hummingbird. You will arrive to Cusco by 6 pm.
** 4 magical days exploring the Manu rainforest.
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.
- 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
- Flight Souvenirs
Global Discount
| Min - Max (Persons) | Adult Price |
|---|---|
| 10 - 20 | $ 270.00 |
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