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Amazon Jungle Tours
Sandoval Lake Tours
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Sandoval Express ( 3 days and 2 nights ) price per person
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High Season |
Low Season
$205 |
High Season
$235 |
| low season (From Dec 01 to April 14) |
A short visit to the Sandoval Lake, the Reserved Zone, and the adjacent
Bahuaje-Sonene National Park. This park is home to over 20,000 plant
species, over 900 species of birds (more than all the species in the
continental USA), 91 mammals, 1230 butterflies, 127 amphibians and reptiles,
and much more! It is also a haven for the Amazon's largest, most spectacular
and most endangered predators - the Jaguar, the Giant Otter, the Harpy Eagle
and the Black Caiman. Located a 25 minute motor canoe ride down the River
Madre de Dios from Puerto Maldonado, Sandoval Lake Lodge is perched above
what many rainforest specialists feel is the most attractive lake in
Southern Peru, if not in the entire Peruvian Amazon. The whole complex is
housed in one structure and includes 25 double occupancy rooms (16 with
private baths and 9 with sharing facilities), hot showers, and a spacious
dining room overlooking the lake. For a more relaxed, complete introduction
to the rainforest, we recommend a two night stay. However, with the easy
access from Puerto Maldonado, it is possible to spend only one night in the
rainforest and still get a good preliminary idea of the splendor of the
Peruvian Amazon.
Area Map, click to enlarge
Day 1: DISCOVER THE JUNGLE
Transfer from Puerto Maldonado airport to the river port on the Madre de
Dios River. A 25 minutes journey down the Madre de Dios River by motor canoe
brings you to the end of the trail in to Sandoval Lake Lodge. 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. As the canal opens
onto the shimmering surface of the lake, we transfer to a catamaran and are
leisurely paddled across half the lake to the lodge. After lunch and a brief
rest to avoid the early afternoon heat, we once again board the catamaran
and set off to explore the entire west end of the lake. Here, in the flooded
palm forest we drift to the sounds of hundreds of Red-Bellied Macaws as they
return to the palm forest for the night. We return to the lodge around
nightfall for dinner. After dinner we will return to the canoes to look for
the large and extremely rare Black Caimans. If it is a clear starlit night,
we will also be able to float in the middle of the lake and marvel at the
brillance of the sky.(L,D)
Day 2: LAKE SANDOVAL
A pre-dawn wake-up call will enable us to be on the lake for sunrise and a
hopeful encounter with the family of Giant Otters which frequent the lake
and are most active at this time of day. Most of the fish-eating water birds
around the lake actively fish in the early morning as well, and this outing
should provide excellent views, and photographs, of the prehistoric- looking
Hoatzins.
After returning for a late breakfast we set off into the cool understory of
the tall virgin forest near the lake to see some towering wild Brazil Nut
trees and a demonstration of how our hosts collect, open and commercialize
this important natural product. After lunch and an hour or so to relax we
once again board the catamaran to explore the eastern part of the lake,
where we might see one or more of the five species of monkeys which live in
the forest near the lake, such as the Brown Capuchin Monkey. There is a
final chance after dinner to try and spot some Black Caimans on the lake, or
to go on a short night walk through the primary forest.(B,L,D)
Day 3: TRANSFER OUT
After a dawn breakfast we take a final, shorter paddle around the west end
of the lake to try and glimpse the Giant Otters before returning to Puerto
Maldonado to catch the flight to Lima.(B)
Please note that the program may vary slightly so as to maximize your wildlife sightings, depending on the reports of our researchers and experienced naturalist guides based at the lodge.
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Accommodations
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Sandoval Lodge |
Sandoval Lake's
Black Cayman |
Brown Capuchin monkey |
INCLUDES: All hotel and lodge
accommodations based on double occupancy. All scheduled land, lake
and river
transportation. All transfers. All scheduled excursions with English-speaking guide
services. All entrance fees. Meals as specified in the itinerary. B=Breakfast;L=Lunch;D=Dinner.
NOT INCLUDED IN THE FEE
International or domestic airfares, airport departure taxes or visa fees, excess baggage
charges, additional nights during the trip due to flight cancellations, alcoholic
and non-alcoholic beverages or bottled water, snacks, insurance of any kind, laundry, phone calls, radio
calls or messages, reconfirmation of international flights and items of personal nature.
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