Manu Expedition Tour 5days

¿WHAT WE EXPECT?

Manu  Expedition   Tour

On the first day of the Manu Expedition Mazuco 5-Day tour, you will ascend from the high mountains of Cusco to the depths of the jungle, passing through misty cloud forests adorned with ferns and orchids. The adventure commences with an ascent to Paso Pituhuaylla at 4750 meters above sea level, and continues through a vibrant tropical rainforest. As the evening approaches, you’ll immerse yourself in the magical atmosphere of Mazuco, also known as the ‘gold mine,’ where you’ll spend the night in a local lodge. And that’s just the beginning

• Length: 5 Days/4 Nights
• Type of service: Private or Group .
  
• Location: Southern Peru, Madre de Dios Department, Manu National Park, jungle trips, manu peruvian -jungle expedition tour .
  
• Activities: manu peruvian jungle, jungle trips, Rainforest, Expedition
• Altitude: 400 – 3,600 m.a.s.l.
• Best time to visit : May – December
• Departure in tour amazon expedition: Every day
• Minimum of participants amazon expedition : 2
• Maximum of participants: 10
• Price per person: USD

DETAILED TOUR ITINERARY:

WHAT TOUR SERVICES:

Included in jungle Expedition.

• A professional naturalist Tour Guide in expedion ;
• Motorboat transportation durnat the trips expedition :
• Private vehicle land transportation; for the trip expedition
• Entrance fees to the clay-licks;
• A professional Cook for  expedition,
• Meals: 4x breakfast, 5x lunch, 4x dinner and drinking water (Please note: vegetarian option upon request for no extra cost!); in the wildlife expedition
• Accommodation: 3 nights in lodges, 1 night of camping (alternatively in a lodge).;
• Camping equipment (personal tents, mattresses, tables, chairs, dining tent, kitchen tent, kitchen equipment and a gas bottle); during  rainforest expedition .
• First aid kit, including a poison extractor, mosquito bite treatment and an antidote for a snake bite;
• Life jackets; in thek expedition
• Radio communications;
• Rubber boots. amazing trips expedition

Not included in the Expedition jungle Tour

• Any flight nor airport departure taxes;
• Travel insurance;
• Vaccination;
• A sleeping bag (we also rent it);
• Breakfast on the first day and dinner on the last day;
• Drinks;
• Tips to local staff.

What to take with you to the Expedition Tour:

• Mosquito repellent (DEET 35 recommended as a MINIMUM!!),
• Original passport,
• A sleeping bag (you can rent it from us too!),
• Small backpack,
• Long sleeved cotton shirts (preferably green coloured),
• Long cotton trousers,
• Cotton long socks (to be put into your trousers),
• Comfortable walking shoes,
• Sandals or light shoes,
• Rain gear (e.g. rain poncho),
• Sweater (for the beginning of the tour in Andes and the cloud forest only),
• Swimsuits;
• Binoculars (we also rent it),
• Camera and its charger for  expedition,
• Plastic bags to be used for clothes and a camera,
• A hat as a protection against the Sun or rain,
• Toiletries,
• Small towel,
• Toilet paper,
• Antibacterial gel,
• Sun cream,
• Sunglasses,
• Flashlight (with spare bulb and batteries),
• A bottled water (1 litre as a minimum),
• Pocket money (Soles) to buy some beverages and souvenirs as well as to tip.

ABOUT LODGE:

Frequently asked questions (FAQs):

ELFINWOOD FOREST  – MANU CENTER:

Trees and shrubs at the lower elevations (exact elevation varies with latitude) become noticeably higher in stature, many extremely gnarled and heavily laden with epiphytes,

especially mosses, lichens, and bromeliads Also, microphyllous epiphytes such as lichens, green algae, and bryophytes abound. Forest stunted in this way is termed elf

wood. Sometimes these diminutive forests are so dense that they are impenetrable. Elfin wood is characterized by an abundance of short twisted trees that are barely 2

meters tall. There is a climate of nearly perpetual mist, which means that the growth of trees is significantly slowed by a shortage of sunlight as well as by the low

temperatures. Tree stature is short because the trees cannot obtain sufficient energy to invest in stems and nor is there much point since the light is so diffuse. Also, the

moisture-saturated atmosphere can make transpiration difficult, which perhaps limits trees in their nutrient uptake from the soil.-In comparison to lower-elevation forests,

elfin forests have a lower species richness of trees. This is probably due to the greater rigor of the climate in manu center

MANU CENTER :

We visit a special site of the Manu National Park – a private reserve of Maquisapayoq and Blanquillo, situated in the southern part of the park! We discover there some paths

going through this virgin part of the jungle  get there, we use the newly paved Interoceanic Highway for the most of the travel followed by a much shorter

travel on the Madre de Dios River by motorboat..Blanquillo offers perfect conditions to observe river otters in a nearby lake and macaws, parrots and parakeets in one of the

best clay-licks of Manu!! Maquisapayoq is an exceptional clay-lick serving to tapirs and other animals to eat clay! There is also a special roofed platform with mosquito´s nets

where visitors can overnight while watching tapirs arriving to eat at nights in manu center

Manu National Park and World Heritage Biosphere :

 is considered by many experts as the most important rainforest park in the world offering the fabled city of Cusco and the mythical Inca citadel of Machu Picchu as its

gateway. About half the size of Switzerland, Manu center protects an entire virgin watershed from Andean grasslands at 12,000 ft. down to cloud forests, to the vast

lowlands below 1,000 ft. above sea level. Manu’s center virgin primary rainforests boast world-record diversities of birds (more than 1,000 species) mammals (more than 200

species), reptiles, amphibians, fresh-water fishes, insects and plants (over 15,000 species). No other area in North or South America offers such superb viewing of rare

or difficult to observe animals, such as the two-meter long and gregarious Giant Otters, 13 species of monkeys, white and black caiman (crocodiles), seven species of

macaws (the world’s largest parrots), ten species of toucans, guans, curassows, and trumpeters (all rare game birds), and the largest land animal in Central and South

America, the Tapir. No other park on earth can compare with Manu center in terms of sheer variety of life forms. A patch of lowland rainforest in harbors 40%

more species of birds than a comparable patch of forest Nowhere is this amazing diversity more evident than in the tropical and temperate forests and associated

habitats of the Reserva Biosfera  (hereafter called Manu center Biosphere Reserve, the name by which most birders know it) in south-east Peru.

A UNESCO  RAINFOREST PERU

World Heritage Site of nearly 1.9 million ha, comprised of the Manu center National Park, associated multiple-use zones and native community lands. Manu lies on the east

slope of the Andes and protects almost the entire watershed of the río Manu and most tributaries of the río Alto Madre de Díos. The reserve encompasses a vast range of

altitudinal zones and habitat types, peaking at more than 4,000 m in the chilly high Andes, and descending to hot, humid lowland  forests at 350 m. Up to ten types of

lowland forest have been identified in this part of the south-west and these can be further subdivided into many distinctive microhabitats – Jungle Trips.

This biological wealth is also evident at the species level. Some 300 species of tree are often crammed into a single hectare of lowland forest. More than 1,300 butterfly

species have been recorded in one area of Manu (Pakitza). During a typical tour, wildlife-watchers encounter at least eight species of primate, enjoy South American

Tapir Tapirus terrestris and other mammals by night at clay-licks, bump into a Giant Otter Pteronura brasilensis family on an oxbow lake, and frequently see Jaguar

Panthera onca along rivers. But it is the avian richness that tends to enthrall most visitors . The total of 1,020 species so far recorded is not only higher

than that of any other protected area worldwide but also eclipses that of many entire countries (even favored birding destinations such as Costa Rica). Moreover, two-thirds

of the reserve remain unexplored; many additional bird species and, remarkably, uncontested indigenous tribes are likely to inhabit these remote areas in Manu – Jungle Trips.

Visiting Manu Center

:Some 5,000 visitors make the trip to Manu Center each year, roughly 5% being dedicated birders. On a typical 2–3 week trip covering all altitudes, birders

accompanied by experienced leaders regularly record 550–650 species. There is something for everyone at Manu. Center Some birders start early, finish late and ‘bird

until they drop’. Others come for a relaxed birding holiday, staying at comfortable lodges, visiting macaw licks (called collpas), paddling on oxbow lakes and passing a

leisurely morning atop one of the many canopy towers. As access is restricted, almost all visitors come on a tour: only authorized operators can take visitors into Manu

National Park center and all must be accompanied by an official guide. Granted, almost all Manu center bird specialties and much other wildlife can be seen in adjacent areas,

but even these are remote, so access is really only feasible as part of a tour or if you are sponsored by a lodge or NGO working in the area in Manu .

Highlights of a typical tour Manu Center :

A typical Manu center starts from Cusco at 3,300 m, crosses the last Andean mountain range, drops down the east slope of the Andes into the lowland  forests Manu

center , and returns by air from the frontier town of Puerto Maldonado to Lima or Cusco. Cusco is a major hub for exploring Inca culture, most famously at the ruins of

Machu Picchu, and for adventure sports (so there is plenty to interest a non-binding spouse!). On the first day of a trip, birders usually visit the wetlands of Huacarpay, 30

minutes’ drive from Cusco, the ancient Inca capital of Peru, where Andean waterfowl and marsh birds abound. Here the beautiful Bearded Mountaineer Oreonympha

nobilis, a restricted-range species endemic to southern Peru, can be seen feeding in Manu center .

MANU CENTER – TROPICAL ALPINE SHRUB/GRASSLAND – PARAMO:

At altitudes above cloud and elfin forests, from Costa Rica south to Bolivia, a shrub land ecosystem occurs. This is named paramo. This ecosystem has a wet and cool

climate, which throughout the year often sees nightly frosts. Large clumped grasses called tussock grasses with sharp, yellowish blades, along with a scattering of terrestrial

bromeliads and ferns, are the dominant vegetation.Among a landscape of paramo, at elevations between 3,500 and 4,500 m (11,400 – 14,800 ft.) in the Andes, (which is

normally above timberline), islands of gnarled trees confined to protected, rocky slopes can be seen. These groups of trees are dominated by the genus Polylepis, occurring in

essentially pure stands at the higher elevations. Polylepis can also be found in lower-elevation cloud forests but normally mixed among other species. Polylepis is very

drought resistant,with the largest trees reaching heights of about 18 m 59 ft this ecosystem type is considered threatened throughout much of its range in manu center