Manu Jungle Tours – Manu Amazon Peru
Our exclusive three-day Manu Jungle Tours with an English-speaking local naturalist tour guide offers an extensive insight into life in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest ins a short time from Cusco City. Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu, the new world wonder, tops the bucket list of travellers in South America. However, Peru is not just about the Inca ruins. The country has far more things to offer to its visitors. One of the unmissable places in the country is the Amazon Rainforest which dominates the eastern part of Peru. Manu National Park in Madre de Dios province of Peru is a prominent part of the Amazon rainforest.
Manu Amazon Peru
Parque Del Manu as it is locally known is also home to around 850 species of birds. The lowland rainforest also houses a wide variety of flora and fauna. Tours to Manu National park are popular as travellers get to witness the life of traditional communities. They maintain their age-old traditional customs. Around 30 traditional Quechua-speaking communities call Manu their home. Manu National Park is spread over 1,532,806 hectares (1.5 million ha). This is the largest tropical jungle in the Americas. The national park is split into three regions – Manu Reserved Zone, Manu biosphere reserve and Manu cultural zone. The whole national park has tiers of vegetation rising from 150 metres to 4200 metres above sea level. In 1987, Manu National Park got its recognition as a UNESCO world heritage site.
How many days are needed to explore Manu National Park?
As Manu is so vast, even a week’s jungle tour could be less. Our 8 days at Manu National Park cover the best of everything. If you want to get a deeper insight into life, culture and flora and fauna then we highly recommend this. However, if you want to get a quick but authentic Amazon experience, our short 3 days Manu tour from Cusco would be an ideal option. On this short tour of Manu National Park, you will also get an opportunity of relishing the beauty of the only tree house – Treehouse Inn, deep in the forest.
Why Treehouse INN?
We are a fully locally owned tour operator. The staff of the Treehouse Inn are from the Amazon Rainforest of Manu National Park. We care that no animals are hunted, no trees are cut and if ever possible no chemical products that will contaminate the soil and rivers are used. Since we ourselves are from the jungle, we feel familiar with the animals and plants. Therefore we make sure that they do not come to harm and that their biodiversity is preserved.
MANU JUNGLE TOURS ITINERARY
Day 1: Cusco – Treehouse Inn (Manu exploring)
Early morning from 4:00 to 4:30AM, our transfer will pick you up directly from your hotel in Cusco, the journey for about 6 hours by car and short activities on the route looking for monkeys, bird watching (Cock of the Rock), our transfer will accompany you directly from Cusco – Paucartambo – Atalaya (boat port), our tour guide will be waiting for you in Atalaya. The next river adventure by motor boat.
First we drive 2 hours until Paucartambo, here we will have our breakfast. Then we drive four hours until we reach Atalaya (boat port). Here ends our trip by car, our tour guide will welcome you to the jungle and accommodating you in our river transport to a motorized boat. Here our adventure continues through the Madre de Dios River for two hours. Then we change to a smaller motor-boat, local name “Peke-Peke”. It gets its name after the sound of its engine
We will be sailing on the Palotoa river for one hour, along boat trip enjoying the river adventure, landscape, wildlife, until we get at the Treehouse INN.
The Treehouse INN will welcome you with a beautiful and unique landscape. Here we have cool drinks made from the local fruits, mineral water, warm drinks. After check-in, you will be escorted to your treehouse, where you can relax and unpack. All meals and beverages at Treehouse INN are made using fresh fruits, vegetables, as well as other local ingredients.
Night Walk (herping activity):
In the evening we will have an opportunity for a night walk with our expert guide looking for snakes such as the false coral, real coral, bush master (shushupe), mantona boa, reaper snake, mouse-eater snake, green parrot snake, rainbow boa, etc. With luck we can find other nocturnal creatures such as frogs, tarantula, night monkey, scorpion spider, nocturnal birds, sloth, fruit-eater bat, red deer, etc. Of course wildlife is not promised, we always waiting for what surprises nature offers us.
We spent the night at Treehouse Inn.
Day 2: Treehouse Inn – Parrot Clay Lick (Manu jungle tours)
At daybreak, we will walk 15 minutes to see the Parrots at the Clay Lick, it is a unique sight. Here we can see different parrots and pigmy macaws fly to the cliff to eat the clay. The clay here contains minerals that help these birds to flush toxins from their body.
After witnessing this activity, we’ll be back to Treehouse INN. Our team will be serving a traditional breakfast with memorable amazon view.
After breakfast we will have a hike through the jungle for three hours. On this three hours tour, with luck we might see some animals like, Deer, Peccary, Sloth, Monkeys. Also, you will be able to see birds like Macaw, Parrot, Toucans, Eagle and more. We will then return to the Treehouse INN for lunch.
Botanical Introduction:
After lunch we will do a jungle walking tour for approximately two hours, we will learn about different species of plants and trees. Most of these plants serve as natural medicines for local people. Our expert guide will explain about these plants. With luck we maybe find more wildlife.
River Tubing Adventure:
Then we have the river tubing one of our highly entertaining adventures, it is about floating in the currents of the Palotoa river, driving on our own down the river for approximately one hour until we reach our Treehouse INN, this adventure is a unique sensation to feel the noise of the river through the jungle, as well as with luck we can see monkeys and birds along the river. We remind you not to forget to bring repellent, sunscreen, swimwear for this adventure, do not miss it.
After dinner, we will go on a night safari. On this tour we will looking for Kalinowski rats and pygmy owls. We will also try to spot tarantulas, spiders, corals, frogs, caiman, etc. Of course wildlife is not promised, we always waiting for what surprises nature offers us.
After the tour, we will be returning to our Treehouse INN.
Day 3: Treehouse Inn – Cusco (hotel or airport)
After breakfast, form Manu Jungle to Cusco. We return to Cusco through the cloud forest and Paucartambo. We will be back in Cusco in the afternoon at approximately 6:00 p.m.
We drop off at your hotel, we can also drop you off directly at the airport in case you have a flight connection.
In this case we recommend taking your connecting flight after 8:00 p.m.