Legacy of the Incas
Luxury Amazon Tours
Machu Picchu - Lake
Titicaca
(11
days/10 nights)
Sacred Sites of the Incas
Luxury Amazon Tours
Machu Picchu - Lake
Titicaca
(12 days/11 nights)
Empire of the Sun
Luxury Amazon Tours
Machu Picchu - Lake
Titicaca
(14 days/13 nights)
Ancient Civilizations of Peru
Luxury Amazon Tours
Colca Canyon - Machu
Picchu
Lake Titicaca
(16 days/15 nights)
Archaeological & Ecological
Treasures
Luxury Amazon Tours
Galapagos - Machu Picchu
Lake Titicaca (or Amazon)
(18 days/17
nights)
Grand Tour of the Inca Empire
Luxury Amazon Tours
Colca Canyon - Amazon
Machu Picchu - Lake Titicaca
(22 days/21 nights)
Ancient & Colonial Capitals
Luxury Amazon Tours
Machu Picchu
(10
days/9 nights)
Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
Luxury Amazon Tours
Machu Picchu
(13 days/12 nights)
Machu Picchu & Galapagos
Luxury Amazon Tours
Machu Picchu - Galapagos
(15 days/14 nights)
Galapagos & Machu Picchu
Luxury Amazon Tours
Galapagos - Machu Picchu
(18 days/17 nights)
Amazon
Bio-Trip
Luxury Amazon Tours
Manu National Park
(8 days/7 nights)
Enchanted
Isles of the Galapagos
Luxury Amazon Tours
Galapagos
(11
days/10 nights)
Galapagos & the Kingdom of Quito
Luxury Amazon Tours
Galapagos - Andes
(16 days/15 nights)
Galapagos
& the Amazon
Luxury Amazon Tours
Galapagos - Amazon
(16 days/15 nights)
Historic Haciendas of the Andes
Luxury Amazon Tours
Cotopaxi - Antisana
- Otavalo
(7 days/6 nights)
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Luxury Amazon Tours
Golden Lion Tamarin, lowland forest north of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Photo: Mariana Munn. Luxury Amazon Tours.
If your quest is to experience nature's rarest wildlife,
Arcana Mundi is the place to begin.
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 and the rarest species of flamingos. 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.
View one of our private, individually-designed itineraries...
The Two Worlds of the Amazon
Jungle lodges...
Reserva Amazonica (Peru)
Napo Wildlife Center (Ecuador)
Flooded Mauritia palm
forest, Sandoval Lake, Amazon Rainforest, Peru.
Photo: Mylene d'Auriol Stoessel. Luxury Amazon Tours.
There's no better way to see the virgin rainforest,
and in no place can you spend so long immersed in it...
-- National Geographic Adventure, World Class Lodges + Escapes, June/July 2005
Land Price
(Frugal Luxury: Superior River Cabin)
3 days/2 nights US$ 840 4 days/3 nights US$ 1,110 5 days/4 nights US$ 1,185 per person
(De Luxe: Suite Amazonica)
3 days/2 nights US$ 955 4 days/3 nights US$ 1,250 5 days/4 nights US$ 1,310 per person
(Imperial: Suite Tambopata)
3 days/2 nights US$ 1,130 4 days/3 nights US$ 1,455 5 days/4 nights US$ 1,505 per person
The land price includes escorted transfers, guided excursions, entrance fees, specified accommodations, all meals, all land and water transportation, and travel insurance for guests through the age of 59 years (over that age, there is a supplementary fee). All prices are per person based on two people sharing a guest room. Please note that a yellow fever vaccination is recommended but not currently required.
Intra-Tour Flights & Fares
Air fares are in addition to the land price.
Lima or Cuzco - Puerto Maldonado - Lima or Cuzco: US$ 550 per person
Reserva Amazonica, Amazon Rainforest, Peru
Location: Tambopata National Reserve, Peru. Reserve size: 40 square miles within the 627,000-acre Tambopata National Reserve. Wildlife it protects: Giant Otters, Black Caimans, Red-bellied Macaws, Brown Capuchin, Squirrel and Titi Monkeys.
The big lure of a jungle ecolodge is, of course, the jungle. The Amazon remains one of the world's most undisturbed wildernesses, and some of its most remote tracts are in southeastern Peru. The area is notoriously tough to reach, but the Inkaterra Reserva Amazonica Lodge is only about an hour in a boat down the Madre de Dios River from Puerto Maldonado.
Inkaterra sits in the middle of a 40-square-mile private ecological reserve, which was founded as a scientific lodge in 1976 by José Koechlin, a Peruvian film producer who had worked with Werner Herzog on a film set in the rain forest. Since then, visiting biologists have conducted pivotal surveys there; in the last 20 years, 14 species new to science have been discovered, including orchids, frogs and a butterfly. In the 1980s, the lodge started welcoming the public and in recent years has become an upscale destination lodge with 35 cabanas, adding luxury suites and a trail network that crisscrosses the surrounding jungle.
In 2005, it opened a stunning treetop canopy walkway — a 1,135-foot-long complex of seven hanging bridges, six treetop observation platforms and two 95-foot-tall towers. Financed by the National Geographic Society and the World Bank, the walkway allows visitors access to the rare plant and animal species of the delicate treetop ecosystem.
A new interpretation center discusses rain forest ecology and community projects spearheaded by Inkaterra's own nonprofit organization.
Inkaterra continues to support ongoing research efforts in southeastern Peru, implementing a wildlife rehabilitation project, a new research facility and global warming studies of the Trans-Amazonica Highway. Cornell University Press has published a study of reptiles and amphibians based on 15 years of research at the property...
-- Bonnie Tsui, Local Culture as Part of the Green Experience, The New York Times, April 15, 2007
Reserva Amazonica brochure
Napo Wildlife Center,
Yasuní National Park, Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador.
Photo: Peter
English. Luxury Amazon Tours.
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: SouthWild Jaguar Camp. Luxury Amazon Tours.
Never before have Jaguars and humans lived in such peace and harmony...
-- Dr. Charles A. Munn
SouthWild Jaguar Camp (formerly 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.
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