MANU NATIONAL PARK (Cloud forest)

The journey starts early morning in Cusco, Capital of the Incas Empire. The Roads takes us first though inter-montane valleys and wetlands where waterfawl, raptors and wild guinea pigs among others are farily common residents. Later, the pintoresque colonial city of Paucartambo await for us to enjoy their typical streets and temple. After lunch, we will head east and gain height once again to Aqjanaco Pass (2600 masl), the entrance to the famous National Park of Manu, from this point the enviroment changes dramatically since this last portion of the Andes retains the humidity of the Amazon Rainforest. This area is home for Spectacled Bear and Culpeo (Andean fox) as well. After lunch, we will start the drive downhill through a very pristine cloud forest where we can find beauties such as Tchudi´s Wooly Monkey, Golden-headed Quetzal, Hooded Mountain-tanager, Scarlet-bellied Mountain-tanager. At mid-afternoon we will arrive to San Pedro, to visit the most reliable Cock of the Rock Lek, where males come daily to perform courtship displays to atract males, one of the greatest experiences in nature.

We leave early morning towards "Machuwasi" an amazonian lake to enjoy the resident aquatic fauna by balsa boats. Hoatzin is probably the highlight here, an awkward bird with a punk-prehistoric look, slugish movements makes it easy to spot. Caimans, capybaras, flycatcher, waterfawl are regularly present in the lake itself. Later we will visit a tower that raises over the forest and walk though some surrounding trails where Capuchin monkeys, Squirrell monkeys or Titi Monkeys use to be found here frequently. We come back towards the lodge for lodge for lunch and spend time in the trails to undesrtand this wonderful and delicate ecosystem or photograph at the hummingbird feeders where the spectaular Rufous-crested Coquette visits the flowers often; you may also choose to enjoy a relaxing time at leassure at the lodge garden.