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Amazon Tours & Travel
Amazon Rainforest of
Peru, Ecuador & Brazil

Blue-and-Gold Macaw,
Heath River, Amazon Rainforest, Peru. Photo: Mylene d'Auriol Stoessel. Amazon Tours & Travel.
Saving the Amazon Rainforest in style...
-- Kimberly
Fay, LuxuryLink.com, April 2005
Manu Cock-of-the-Rock Heath Sandoval Napo Jaguar
Research Center Hyacinth
Cliffs
At the same time our Amazon lodges are
providing extraordinary wildlife encounters, they are guarding
rare species. Each
lodge has been built in a place of ecological importance by South
American conservationists. Each is established in association
with the indigenous people to protect and support their natural
reserves. All have naturalists and native guides who will show
you the diverse flora and fauna, and how it forms the most complex
-- and fragile -- ecosystem on earth. All enhance the wilderness
experience without compromising its authenticity. When you stay
in these "Guardians of the Rainforest", all
of their profits and a portion of ours go to save the Amazon.

Red-and-Green Macaws
at the clay lick, Manu, Amazon Rainforest, Peru. Photo: Mylene d'Auriol Stoessel. Amazon Tours & Travel.
A naturalist's tour-de-force...
-- Ellen Douglas,
LuxuryLink.com, July 2004
3 Nights 4 Nights 5 nights 6
nights 7 nights
Manu Wildlife
Center, Amazon Rainforest,
Peru
Location: Adjacent to the eastern
border of Peru's 4.5-million-acre Manu National Park and the
northern border of the 1-million-acre Amarakaeri Communal Reserve,
a national protected area. Reserve
size: 29,000 acres. Wildlife
it protects: Jaguars, Lowland Tapirs, Harpy Eagles, five species
of macaws, Black Caimans, Giant Otters and 11 species of monkeys.
By far the richest, most extraordinary
biological transect in the Amazon, or the world, starts in Cuzco
and runs northeast by road and river to the great Manu Wilderness.
Manu offers by far the greatest quantity
and diversity of animals and plants in the world. No other destination
in Peru or beyond can compare. Nowhere else can you enjoy superbly
intact tropical habitats from Andean grasslands and cloud forests
down to foothill and lowland forests.
Manu boasts the highest bird, mammal
and plant diversity of any park on Earth, including 1,000 of
the world's 9,700 bird species, 200 species of mammals and 15,000
species of flowering plants. The most photogenic spectacles are
frolicking Giant Otters, 1,000 parrots and macaws at a riverbank
clay lick, dancing Cocks-of-the-Rock, 11 species of monkeys and
huge Lowland Tapirs at a forest clay lick. Manu
Wildlife Center currently offers the world's finest viewing of
this elusive animal, which elsewhere is harder to see even than
the Jaguar, which also is a frequent sight in Manu.
In terms of wildlife for your money,
our Manu itineraries offer the greatest payoff of wildlife per
dollar of any rain forest site in Latin America. Other New World
rain forests may be somewhat less expensive than Manu, but none
of them offer Manu's tremendous wildlife diversity. For travelers
who want the finest rainforest experiences in the world, Manu
offers the ultimate "bio-trip". All trips start and
end in Cuzco and include all air and ground transport, food,
lodging and guided rainforest outings.

Andean Cock-of-the-Rock,
Manu Cloud Forest, Manu National Park.
Photo: Peru Verde. Amazon Tours & Travel.
Witness the elaborate mating dance
of the blazing-scarlet Cocks-of-the-Rock...
-- Ellen Douglas,
LuxuryLink.com, July 2004
2 Nights 5 nights 7 nights
Cock-of-the-Rock
Lodge, Amazon Rainforest,
Peru
Location: Peru Verde Cloud Forest
Reserve, Manu Cloud Forest, Peru. Reserve
size: 11,000 acres. Wildlife
it protects: Andean Cocks-of-the-Rock, Common Woolly and Brown
Capuchin Monkeys, Spectacled Bears, cloud-forest birds and orchids.
The Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge is located
in the pristine Manu Cloud Forest on the verdant eastern slopes
of the Andes. Opened in 1997, it is named after the Andean Cock-of-the-Rock,
Peru's large, bright-red national bird that puts on a colorful,
noisy mating display adjacent to the lodge every morning. Spectacled
Bears, Woolly Monkeys, Brown Capuchin Monkeys, quetzals and a
host of other colorful birds inhabit the surrounding forest,
and a bubbling mountain stream tumbles past the lodge.
Situated at an elevation of 5,000 feet
(1,600 meters) in the cool, mosquito-free Kosñipata Valley,
close to the wild Cusco-Shintuya road, the lodge protects and
supports a 11,000-acre private cloud forest reserve. It consists
of 10 bungalows and a separate complex with a large dining room.
A local highland family staffs the lodge, and they also work
as rangers, patrolling the private reserve.
Accommodation is in the double-occupancy
bungalows, each of which has a spacious interior, private bathroom,
screened windows with mosquito nets and its own balcony. Meals
are served on the fully screened dining platform. The lodge cook
prepares hearty dishes using fresh fruits, vegetables, grains
and meat. Vegetarian and other special diets can be provided
upon request.
The incredible 110-mile drive from Cuzco
to the lodge passes through the finest transect of Andean habitats
in South America. The drive typically lasts 8 hours, including
stops in Andean towns and opportunities to walk and experience
on foot the upper cloud forest habitat. Often we will take even
more time to savor the unforgettable scenery, excellent birding
and abundant cloud forest flora.

Madre de Dios River,
Tambopata National Reserve.
Photo: Mylene d'Auriol Stoessel. Amazon Tours & Travel.
The largest uninhabited and
unhunted rainforest
in the Amazon...
3 Nights 4 Nights 5 Nights
Heath
River Wildlife Center, Amazon
Rainforest, Peru
Location: Heath River, adjacent to
the northern tip of Bolivia's 4.7-million-acre Madidi National
Park and across the river from Peru's 2.7-million-acre Bahuaja-Sonene
National Park. Reserve size:
25,000 acres. Wildlife it
protects: Jaguars, Lowland Tapirs, Maned Wolves, Marsh Deer,
Harpy Eagles, six species of macaws and Giant Otters.
Only four hours by river from the Puerto
Maldonado airport, Heath River Wildlife Center is the gateway
to the largest uninhabited and unhunted rainforest in the Amazon.
An immensely photogenic macaw clay lick, capybaras, oxbow lakes
with Giant Otters, hundreds of bird and mammal species and a
lodge 100%-owned by the Ese'eja Indians of Sonene make the Heath
the best combination of nature and culture in the entire Amazon.
No other lodge in Tambopata is 100% owned and operated by a community
of lowland Indians.
Every person in Sonene speaks the original
indigenous language, with Spanish being a distant second used
mostly in school and to trade with outsiders and, now, to chat
with pampered guests. Women from Sonene hold daily crafts workshops
at the lodge, teaching visitors tribal traditions handed down
through the millennia.
Though authentic in its architecture,
the lodge in Sonene does not sacrifice comfort in the least.
Guests enjoy roomy, private, double-occupancy bungalows with
electric fans and en-suite facilities with hot showers. The combination
of the most accessible and most photogenic large macaw lick and
the warmth and uniquely traditional hospitality of our Indian
hosts make Heath River Wildlife Center and Sandoval Lake Lodge
the Amazon's best value in wildlife and authentic rainforest
adventure.
Programs of 3, 4 or 5 nights. All can
be combined with the Sandoval
Lake Lodge.

Flooded Mauritia palm
forest, Sandoval Lake, Amazon Rainforest, Peru. Photo: Mylene d'Auriol Stoessel. Amazon Tours & Travel.
The most beautiful and wildlife-rich of
all lakes
in the Tambopata-Madidi Wilderness...
3
Nights 4 Nights 5 Nights
Sandoval Lake Lodge, Amazon Rainforest, Peru
Location: Lake Sandoval, Tambopata
National Reserve, Peru. Reserve
size: 100 acres within the 627,000-acre Tambopata National Reserve.
Wildlife it protects: Giant Otters,
Black Caimans, Red-bellied Macaws, Brown Capuchin, Squirrel and
Titi Monkeys.
Located deep in Peru's Tambopata National
Reserve, Sandoval Lake Lodge overlooks sparkling, palm-rimmed
Sandoval Lake, the most beautiful and wildlife-rich of all lakes
in the Tambopata-Madidi Wilderness. This privileged location
gives you exclusive access to the lake in the early morning and
late afternoon, the choice hours for wildlife viewing and photography.
No other lodge in Tambopata-Madidi is on the banks of a protected
oxbow lake.
Our short Sandoval Lake Lodge program
includes two nights of fully-screened accommodation in 25 double-occupancy
rooms complete with en-suite facilities with hot-water showers,
electricity, fans, meals, airport transfers in Puerto Maldonado,
naturalist guides, lake excursions by day in search of Giant
Otters, monkeys and macaws, forest excursions, night excursions
in search of caimans, and evening slide shows. The lodge specializes
in small groups and individualized attention in its overriding
quest to conserve the lake and surrounding rainforest. Sandoval
Lake Lodge is built out of ecologically-correct driftwood mahogany
and is owned jointly by a nonprofit conservation group and five
families of indigenous Brazil nut collectors.
Tours of 3, 4 or 5 nights. All are combined
with the Heath
River Wildlife Center.

Napo Wildlife Center,
Yasuní National Park, Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador. Photo: Peter
English. Amazon Tours & Travel.
Napo Wildlife Center lies inside the two-and-a-half-million
acre
Yasuní National Park... a Unesco
Biosphere Reserve...
-- Connie
Rogers, Feathers, Fur and Jungle Waters, The New York Times,
August 1, 2004
Napo Wildlife
Center, Amazon Rainforest,
Ecuador
Location: Añangu Reserve,
Yasuní National Park, Ecuador. Reserve
size: 52,000 acres within the 2.5-million-acre Yasuní
National Park. Wildlife it
protects: 562 bird species (including Scarlet Macaws and Mealy
Amazon Parrots), Giant Otters, Jaguars, Black Caimans, Harpy
Eagles, Crested Eagles, Common Woolly Monkeys, Black Spider Monkeys
and nine other primates.
The Amazon Basin is famous for its wildlife,
but not for its creature comforts. With the Napo Wildlife Center,
you get the best of both worlds.
Here, you can see thousands of parrots
at the two, nearby parrot clay licks, Giant Otters in the lake
and streams, 11 species of monkeys in the trees and over 550
species of birds in the forest. When your day is done, you can
take a hot shower, sit on your private porch overlooking the
lake, have a cold beer from the bar and enjoy a healthy international
dinner. This is the jungle in style.
From start to finish, the Napo Wildlife
Center combines creature comforts with incredible wildlife. Bilingual
guides explain the intricacies of the rainforest while the staff
works to make your stay the trip of a lifetime. And why wouldn't
they? They are not only your staff but also major stockholders
of the lodge!
In addition to being the best wildlife
lodge in the Amazon of Ecuador, the Napo Wildlife Center also
conserves 82 square miles of pristine rainforest in its private
reserve, based on a conservation partnership with the local community.

Wild Jaguar, Pantanal,
Central Western Brazil. Photo: Jaguar
Research Center. Amazon Tours & Travel.
Never before have Jaguars and humans lived
in such peace and harmony...
Jaguar
Research Center, Pantanal,
Brazil.
Location: Meeting-of-the-Waters State
Park, Pantanal, Brazil. Reserve size: 270,000 acres.
Wildlife it protects: Jaguars, Brazilian
Tapirs, Giant Otters, Brown Capuchin Moneys, Black and Gold Howler
Monkeys, Silvery Marmosets and 82 species of large birds, including
Agami Herons, Black-collared Hawks, Sunbitterns, Sungrebes, Bare-faced
Curassows, Great Potoos, Jabiru Storks and a profusion of other
water and forest birds.
Located in central-western Brazil, the
Pantanal is a UK-sized mosaic of seasonally-flooded savannahs
and tropical forests that features the finest wildlife
viewing in Latin America. This area harbors a world-record 82
species of large birds, thousands of which can be seen during
a one-hour drive on the raised Transpantaneira Road, the
only all-season route that penetrates the heart of this enormous
wildland. The Pantanal harbors 4,000-7,000 Jaguars, including
the heaviest specimens in the world. A male Jaguar in our region
recently weighed in at 310 pounds (144 kilos).
At the end of the Transpantaneira Road
winds a labyrinth of rivers on which our specially-trained trackers
and boatmen have shown Jaguars to guests 397 times in 220 guest
days in the 2007 and 2008 dry seasons. This location is the site
of the 270,000-acre Meeting-of-the-Waters State Park,
one of the three largest protected areas in the entire Pantanal.
No other location in the world can offer anything like this number
of Jaguars per day. Most guests also see Tapirs and Giant
Otters. Never before, anywhere, in the history of the world
have Jaguars and humans lived in such peace and harmony. Come
see our Jaguars and make history. Most of the Jaguars in this
huge "Jaguar park" appear over and over again, and
we now have both a complete face dossier of the 15 most frequently-seen
cats and a growing number of data points that allow us to map
the overlapping territories of these mighty cats.
Read about
the Jaguar Research Center

Hyacinth Macaw, Hyacinth
Cliffs, Amazon Rainforest, Brazil. Photo: Pete Oxford. Amazon Tours & Travel.
Recently scientists caught a glimpse of
wild monkeys
using tools in a surprisingly sophisticated
way.
-- Jennifer Steinberg Holland
Tool Time,
Monkey Style, National Geographic Magazine, January 2004
Hyacinth
Cliffs, Amazon Rainforest,
Brazil
Location: Parnaíba Headwaters
National Park, Brazil. Reserve
size: 19,000 acres within and adjacent to the 1.8-million-acre
Parnaíba Headwaters National Park. Wildlife it protects: Hyacinth Macaws, Red-and-Green
Macaws, Blue-and-Gold Macaws, Burrowing Owls, Great Potoos, Maned
Wolves, Jaguars, tool-using Brown Capuchin Monkeys and Black-and-Gold
Howler Monkeys.
Every half century or so, an amazing
new wildlife destination bursts onto the South American scene.
Such is the case for Hyacinth Cliffs of the sunny, dry forests
of central Brazil. No other destination in Brazil offers so much
charismatic wildlife in so little time -- and with so much comfort.
This new lodge complex is located at
Brazil's new, 1.8-million-acre Parnaiba Headwaters National Park.
At one-third the size of New Jersey, this park is Brazil's largest
park outside the Amazon and protects far more dry tropical forest
than any other reserve on Earth. Only 10% of the world's original
dry tropical forest remains today, while half of all wet tropical
forest still stands, so the Parnaiba Headwaters National Park
is of exceptional conservation importance.
From the comfort of Hyacinth Cliffs,
you can see some of the most exciting wildlife in Brazil. The
Park harbors more than 1,500 Hyacinth Macaws -- 50-100 times
more than any other national park. It also is the most important
reserve for the endangered Maned Wolf, which is the world's largest
and most beautiful wild canid. Finally, Parnaiba Park is the
only place on Earth where Brown Capuchin Monkeys demonstrate
the world's most complex tool use by nonhuman primates. This
incredible display of intelligence was reported for the first
time in 2004, initially in National Geographic Magazine and then
worldwide in a BBC TV documentary. There is only one place to
see all of these amazing creatures, and that is Hyacinth Cliffs.

Golden Lion Tamarin, lowland forest north of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Photo: Mariana Munn. Amazon Tours & Travel.
Arcana Mundi Expeditions
Amazon Tours
A vast sinkhole falls precipitously into the Earth, holding within it a galaxy of Red-and-Green Macaws that live in the cavities of the pink sandstone walls. High in the Andes, a lost world of volcanos, lagoons and grasslands gives sanctuary to the endangered Andean Condor, threatened species of flamingos, important populations of wild camelids and other unique wildlife. In the Atlantic coastal forest near Rio, the amazing Golden Lion Tamarins have been rescued from near extinction. Normally it is hard to get the conservation biologists to open the site even to scientists, but we know how to get it open for you -- and you will observe these rare creatures face to face. Our expeditions to nature's secret places only are possible thanks to the lifelong research and exclusive access of Dr. Charles A. Munn, noted ornithologist and pioneer of conservation through ecotourism. Our extreme nature experiences are reserved for just a few scientists, special film crews, professional photographers and you. If your quest is to experience nature's rarest wildlife, Arcana Mundi is the place to begin.
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