Manu Rout
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FROM THE ANDES TO MANU LOWLAND:

Year: 2010
Itinerary: 21 Days / 20 Nights
Departure: Every Month
Departure Dates: We offer a private tours any time

You visit Manu’s best areas for birds, the Eastern Andes slope and Manu region.
We can plan custom trips for specific birding needs.

Route: Lima/Cusco/Abra Malaga/Machu Picchu/Cusco/Manu cloud forest (Cock-of-Rock Lodge)/ Amazonia Lodge/Amazon Manu Lodge/Puerto Maldonado/Lima

Highlights: Birding the Andes and famous Machu Picchu ruins and environs, plus all altitudes of the Manu area with a list of almost 1,000 species, Harpy Eagle nesting next to Puerto Maldonado.

 

DAY 1:
Arrive in Lima, transfer to hotel.
Overnight at San Agustin Colonial Miraflores***Or similar

DAY 2:
Visit the Villa marshes and Pueblo Viejo, Birds we will be looking in this typical coastal marshes are Peruvian Thickknee, Ducks, Great Grebe, Gray-hooded Gull, Many-colored Rush-tyrant, Wren-like Rushbird, etc.

In the way back to Lima we stop in Pucusana town nexto to the Pacific Ocean, where we will see Peruvian Pelicans, Inca Tern, Peruvian Boobies, Red legged Cormorant. We will see Humboldt Penguin in small numbers, Oystercatcher .Seaside Cinclodes and lots terns and gulls. After lunch we go back to Lima late in the Afternoon.


Overnight at San Agustin Colonial Miraflores***Or similar

DAY 3:
Fly to Cuzco first thing in the morning and transfer by bus to the hotel in the town of Ollantaytambo At a lower elevation than Cuzco, we will barely feel the elevation and will begin to acclimatize while doing some easy birding in the Valley. Good birds to find are Giant Hummingbird, Green-tailed Hummingbird, Green-tailed Trainbearer, etc.
Overnight at Pakaritampu Hotel ***Or similar

DAY 4:
Bus trip to Abra Málaga, 45 Km from the Village of Ollantaytambo in the Sacred Valley, dry forest, mountain scrub forest, we can fine birds like White Tufted Sunbeam, Chesnut – Breasted Mountain finch, Royal Cinclodes, Tit like Dacnis, etc. the area is home to same bird species that cannot even seen in Manu rout. Coming back to Ollantaytambo to catch our late Train to Aguas Calientes, transfer to hotel.
Overnight at Hanaqpacha INN ***Or similar

 

DAY 5:
Visit the famous Machu Picchu ruins with birding. Here we will try to get the endemic Cuzco Brush-Finch and Inca Wren, and other specialties like the Tricolored Brush-Finch and Masket Fruiteater.


Birding along the trail tracks. The Sclater’s Flycatcher and the Inca Wren are probably our target birds, but we will have plenty of activity with Tanager flocks.

In the afternoon, we will return to Ollantaytambo by train. And by bus from Ollantaytambo to Cuzco
Overnight at Andes de America hotel ***Or similar

DAY 6:
Morning visit to the Huacarpay lakes in Cuzco. And birding around the Saccsayhuaman ruins. The afternoon will be left free for a city tour, shopping, or relaxing.
Overnight at Andes de America hotel *** or similar

DAY 7:
Leave early for Manu National Park and the famous Manu Road. We will bird through typical Andean scrub and fields on our way to the highest part of Manu National Park, at the Acjanaco pass, with breakfast and lunch on the road. After some birding at tree line we start our descent through cloud forest on the Manu road, arriving at the Lodge just after sunset.


In the evening we’ll go to a favorite spot where we it is possible to see the Swallow-tailed Nightjar. Night at Wayquecha Lodge this Lodge is located at 2,800 meters altitude.

DAY 8/9:

Today we are going to walk the rout, birding full day exploring  the humid temperate forest from treeline down to the cloud forest. Start early after breakfast.


Our target birds are Red and White Antpitta, endemic Marcapata Spinetail, Tit-like Dacnis, Moustached Flowerpiercer, the Puna Thistletail, Diademed Tapaculo.  Birding downhill through the forest looking for mixed feeding flocks that will contain Black-throated Tody-Flycatcher, Andean Guan, Scaly-naped Parrot,  Grass-green Tanager, Hooded Mountain-Tanager, Barred and Band-tailed Fruiteaters, Bar-bellied Woodpecker, White-throated Tyrannulet,  Barred Fruiteater, White-banded and White-throated Tyrannulets, Hummingbirds like Collared Inca, Chestnut-breasted Coronet, Amethyst-throated Sunangel, Violet-throated Startfrontlet, Scaled Metaltail and much more.


We will spend two days birding the cloud forest along the road above and below the Lodge. Overnight at Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge or similar.

DAY 10:
Continuing down the Manu Road, we will bird our way through subtropical forest to Atalaya, The road between Pilcopata and Atalaya has good birds like Military and Blue Headed Macaw, and Pheasant Cuckoo, crossing the Alto Madre de Dios River to the Amazonia Lodge.

DAY 11/12:
We will spend two days birding habitats from the lodge at the base of the Andes. We will cover the extensive trail system in search of the almost 600 species recorded in this lodge. Overnight at Amazonia Lodge

DAY 13
Travel by boat to the Amazon Manu Lodge, where we will arrive after 7 hours boat trip Down river. In the way We will visit the Crested Eagle nest, 15 minutes walk into the forest. Overnight at Amazon Manu Lodge.

 

DAY 14/15/16/17:

We will spend 5 full days at the Amazon Manu Lodge. with a great trail system that includes both terra firme and palm swamps, Bamboo forest, Camungo and Blanco Lakes, with the access to the Macaw Clay Lick and Mammal clay Licks(That visit Tapir, Peccaries, Deer, Monkeys and birds like Guans,parakeets, curassow and Chachalacas ) and the Canopy Tower in Blanquillo close to the Camungo Lake.

The trails will give us access to several known territories of hard to get birds, follow mixed species flocks and spend time in flooded forest. We will also visit the bamboo in the terra firme for almost all of the specialists of this unique habitat, for Crested Pygmy Tyrant, Flammulated Bamboo Tyrant. Rufus Headed Woodpecker, look for the Rufous-fronted Antthrush in the Heliconia thickets, walk in the Tapir lake trail in the primary forest looking for Black Tinamou, Semicollared Puffbird, Pavonine Quetzal and visit a typical large oxbow lake Cocha Blanco and Camungo. Since we will be based at the comfortable lodge. Overnight at Amazon Manu Lodge.

DAY 18:
Afternoon 3 hours boat trip with some birding on the river will take us to the Colorado village, where we will take a Bus trip for 4 to 5 hour to Puerto Maldonado.

Sleeping at Cabaña Quinta Hotel or Anaconda Lodge.

DAY 19:
Early in the morning we will visit a Harpy Eagle nest at 30 meters hight, 60 minutes motorcycle driving, true the forest.

Birding around the nesting place with the endemic bird,  like Black faced Cotinga and other birds of the lowland.

 

Back to Puerto Maldonado and Sleeping at Cabaña Quinta Hotel or Anaconda Lodge.

DAY 20:


After breakfast we go to the airport where we will take a flight to Lima, Overnight at San Agustin Colonial Miraflores*** Or similar

DAY 21:
Transfer to the airport for international flight.

PRICE:

 

$6,785.00 US. Dollars per persone

Double ocupance in the Hotels and Lodges.

 

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Update: Jan.30, 2010