Activities

Peru Ultimate Wildlife Itinerary

We've included a wide variety of adventure and cultural activities in 4 distinct regions of Peru designed to educate, inspire, and bring out the wonder in you. This is a well-rounded tour with a strong wildlife emphasis, while also featuring Peru's most famous cultural sites. All of our activities are flexibly designed to accomodate different skill levels and interests, while exposing you to a variety of unique eco-systems in order to see the most amount of wildlife. And did we mention fun?

Wildlife Viewing, birding, hiking and kayaking in 2 Amazon Reserves
View Macaws and Parrots by the hundreds at clay licks
Explore Oxbow lakes for giant otters, hoatzin, and 13 species of primates
Machu Picchu full tour, including Cusco and the Sacred Valley
Sight-seeing train through 18,000 ft. snow-capped peaks of the Andes
Visit with an Infierno Shaman and tour a medicinal garden

Activities by Region

Tambopata Reserve

Boat up the headwaters of the Amazon River. View 5 species of Macaws and nearly 20 species of parrots and parrakeets as the flock to clay licks in search of the minerals that help their digestion. Wildlife viewing at an Oxbow lake, a canopy tower and while hiking rainforest trails. Visit an Infierno shaman and tour a medicinal garden.

Cusco

Tour the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, including the Santo Domingo Convent Monastery - the legendary Koricancha "Site of Gold", the most important temple devoted to worship of the sun and whose walls were plated with sheets of gold; the Plaza de Armas and the Cathedral.

Sacred Valley

Explore the countryside outside Cusco and visit some of the remarkable Inca ruins in the area including the cult centre of Sacsayhuaman, the temple and amphitheatre of Kenko, Tambomachay and Puca Pucara. Enjoy breathtaking views as we come down the mountain into the Sacred Valley. Travel aboard a spectacular sight-seeing train to Machu Picchu, "The Lost City of the Incas". The train has ceilngs made mostly of glass which allow you to gaze out at the 18,000 foot snow-capped peakes of the Andes and marvel at the Inka ruins around nearly every bend.

Machu Picchu

Full guided tour of this marvelous citadel, visiting the main square, the royal quarters, the temple of the three windows, the circular towers and the sacred sun dial and burial grounds. Machu Picchu is a World Heratige Site and one of the best preserved archeological ruins of spiritual siginificance.

Manu Biosphere Reserve

Hiking, boating, and extraordinary wildlife viewing ! Manu has the highest biodiversity of any park on earth. Most visitors are restricted to the Cultural Zone where wildlife is much less abundant, but we will venture deep into the most remote and wildlife-rich part of Manu called the "Reserved Zone,” including Cocha Salvador. No other Peru Itinerary will expose you to so much wildlife! 200 species of mammals live here; tapirs and jaguars are commonly sighted. Manu's 13 species of primates include wooly monkeys and emperor tamarins with white mustaches. The lowland rainforest in Manu harbors 1,000 species of birds, the highest concentration of bird life on earth; 40% more than the Brazilian Amazon!