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Manu
Wildlife Center
Manu, Peru |
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| "...Manu Wildlife
Center offered, hands down the most intense wildlife experience
I've had in the Amazon....."
Conde Nast Traveler - December 2002 |
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From Cusco this lodge is only 45 minutes by air plus 90 minutes by river. No other lodge in Manu offers all these major wildlife attractions in one spot:
- The world's
largest tapir lick.
- The most photogenic and accessible large macaw and parrot lick.
- Miles of monkey-rich trails through mature rain forest.
- Two 120-foot-tall (35-m) canopy platforms.
- Two mature lakes with abundant Hoatzins, caimans and Giant Otters.
Manu Wildlife Center is located in a private, 16,190 ha./40,000-acre rain forest reserve adjacent to the one million-acre protected area named the “Amarakaeri Reserved Zone”. The tapir lick is a comfortable ninety minutes on foot from the lodge, while the macaw lick is a half-hour boat journey plus a short walk away.
Visitors will welcome the amenities and comfort of this lodge, the only one in the Manu lowlands with roomy, private bungalows, en suite private bathrooms and tiled, hot water showers -- especially if they are arriving from the rustic simplicity of Manu National Park.
Here they can charge batteries, check their e-mail, wash their hair and order a drink under the high thatched roof of the grandly spacious all-wooden dining hall, bar and lounge. (Conservation note: the cedarwood used in construction was salvaged from uprooted trees washed downriver by the annual floods).
Manu Wildlife Center Tours - Prices
Tour program operates from May through October.
We have 5 different fixed departures that depart from Cusco with a minimum of two persons.
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DOUBLE |
SINGLE
SUPPL |
ITINERARY |
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2010 |
4
D - 3 N |
USD
1285 |
USD
225 |
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5
D - 4 N |
USD
1475 |
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300 |
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What we include:
- Round trip
transfers to and from the Cusco Airport
- Round trip
airfare from Cusco to Boca Manu
- Round trip
canoe transportation to the lodge
- Private bungalows
with private bathrooms
- All meals
and snacks
- Purified
drinking water and juices
- Bilingual
naturalist guide
- Visits to
macaw and tapir clay licks, oxbow lake, canopy platforms and trail
hikes
Comments about Manu Wildlife Center from
tour guides and magazines
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Conde
Nast Traveler |
“…Manu Wildlife Center has become a base of
choice for elite bird-watching tours and wildlife-documentary
crews- people willing to spend good money to be treated
well..”
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Moon
Handbook |
... high-end Manu operator is InkaNatura Travel, which
is one of Peru´s leading operators, with programs
in Chachapoyas, Puerto Maldonado, and the jungle around
Quillabamba as well.InkaNatura is the profit-making arm
of the Peru Verde conservation organization that owns Manu
Wildlife Center.
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Insight
guides of Discovery Channela |
scintillanting rainforest option in this arca is Manu Wildlife
Center, two hours downstream from Boca Manu. The Wildlife
Center, just outside the Manu Biosphere reserve, is in a
large area of privately owned rainforest with superb wildlife
viewing. There area 48 Km. (30 miles) of trails, and some
unique features, such as the nearby Blanquillo clay lick,
where noisy flocks of parrots and macaws gather to ingest
minerals, and a mudhule where tapirs (seldom sigthted elsewhere),
are nightly visitors
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Lonely
Planet |
A
two-hour boat ride southeast (right) of Boca Manu of the
Rio Madre de Dios takes you to Manu Wildlife Center. Although
the lodge is not in Manu Biosphere Reserve, it is recommended
for its exceptional wildlife-watching and birding opportunities...
There are 48 km of trails around the Manu Wildlife Center,
where 10 species of monkeys, as well as other wildlife,
can be seen. Two canopy platforms are a short walk away,
and one is always available for guests wishing to view the
top of the rainforest and look for birds that frequent the
canopy. A 3 km walk through the forest brings you to a natural
salt lick, where there is a raised platform with mosquito
nets for viewing the nightly activities of the tapirs....
A short boat ride on the Madre de Dios brings visitors to
a well-known salt lick that attracts various species of
parrots and macaws.
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