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Puerto Maldonado
Colpa de Guacamayos de Colorado
Inside the Tambopata National Reserve and 150 km / 93 miles
from Puerto Maldonado (12 hours by boat)
The “colpa” (macaw clay lick) is a place where macaws congregate, formed along the shores of the river due to certain erosion processes that allowed the formation of soil rich in mineral salts. It is approximately 50 meters / 164 feet high, 500 meters / 1640 feet long, and is considered the largest in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest. Every morning, six different species of macaws, parrots, and parakeets gather there. These colorful birds fly around the colpa before starting the “colpeo”, which consists in eating the clay found on the cliff and serves as a nutritional supplement. After staying there from twenty-five to thirty minutes, they fly away to come back the next day. Occasionally, Brazilian tapirs, capybaras, and squirrels go there. At the top of the trees, different species of monkeys like the red howler, ...
Tours in Puerto Maldonado
Sandoval Lake 4 Days 3 Nights (US$ 0.00)
Type: Ecological
From here the trail takes you on a 2-mile walk/or rickshaw ride through secondary forest, until we reach a small canal where we board canoes and are paddled 220 yards through a flooded forest of 100-foot tall Mauritia palms
Visited Places: Puerto Maldonado,
Sandoval Lake 3 Days 2 Nights (US$ 0.00)
Type: Ecological
We meet your morning jet flight from Lima or Cusco and transport you three miles by paved road to the river port of the town of Puerto Maldonado on the Madre de Dios River.
Visited Places: Puerto Maldonado,
Tambopata Candamo 5 Days 4 Nights (US$ 0.00)
Type: Ecological
After breakfast hike of approximately three hours watching different types of forest. Lunch. In the afternoon we will travel up the Tambopata river for forty minutes to the Bahuaja Sonene National Park. Camping in the Park. Search for caimans in the river at night
Visited Places: Puerto Maldonado,
Tambopata Candamo 4 Days 3 Nights (US$ 0.00)
Type: Ecological
Greeting at the airport and transportation to the WASAI Maldonado Lodge, where you will receive a welcoming tropical fruit beverage. You will embark for a 3 to 4 1/2 hour motorboat trip up the Tambopata river to WASAI Tambopata Lodge & Research Center (box lunch on route).
Visited Places: Puerto Maldonado,
Tambopata Candamo 3 Days 2 Nights (US$ 0.00)
Type: Ecological
The trip is full of adventure, similar to TE 4/3 but more intensive, with possibilities to find wild animals and the most attractive landscapes: The amazing macaw clay lick "collpa" in the Bahuaja-Sonene National Park and the wonderful Sandoval lake in the Tambopata-Candamo Reserved Zone.
Visited Places: Puerto Maldonado,
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