IQUITOS TOURS : EXPEDITION TO PACAYA SAMIRIA TOUR

Day 1: Iquitos - Tambo Amazonico
Our personnel will meet and greet you at the airport. Transfer to Iquitos.
Along the way you will briefly sightsee Iquitos, looking at the most important tourist sites of this representative Peru’s orient city founded in the XIX Century.
Transfer by land to the City of Nauta on the shores of the Maranon River where you will board the boat that will take you to the Tambo Amazonico Lodge. On the way you will be impressed at the sight of the Amazon River formation in the confluence of the Maranon with the Ucayali. Box lunch on route.

Arrival in our Tambo Amazonico Lodge located on the Yarapa River (100 miles from Iquitos), one of the first tributaries of the Amazon River, in the so called “buffer zone” or the “gateway” to the Pacaya-Samiria Reserve.
As soon as you are installed you will take a hike or canoe ride to explore the beauty of the place. The Tambo Amazonico Lodge is surrounded by exuberant vegetation and beautiful dark water oxbow lakes.
Supper at the lodge.
Overnight.

Day 2 Tambo Amazonico - San Isidro
With the first light of the day you will head for a macaw lick near the lodge where these noisy multicolor birds gather early in the morning.
Breakfast at the lodge.
Boat excursion on the Yarapa River to observe birds and primates that inhabit the area. Lunch at the lodge. Departure to San Isidro heading through the Maranon and continuing exploring the national reserve, on the way it is possible to spot the amazing pink dolphins. Install in an itinerant camp or a shelter in San Isidro.
Supper Overnight.

Day 3 San Isidro
Early morning excursion to do birdwatching on the Maranon River. Cotingas and herons are common in this area.

Breakfast at camp.
Excursion to a nearby lake where it is possible to observe a various species of birds and of fish, which is their basic food source.
Lunch on the way.
Jungle trail hike to spot local fauna, different kinds of primates amongst the most important.
Supper and overnight.

Day 4 San Isidro - Yanayacu-Pucate
Breakfast.
Spot different species that inhabit the area, such as: giant river otters, water turtles, monkeys and the fascinating pink dolphins.
Lunch.
Canoe ride and piranha fishing.
Dinner and overnight in camp.

Day 5 Pacaya-Samaria Reserve - Iquitos
Breakfast.
Sail on the Amazon and Maranon rivers to reach Nauta. Return to Iquitos by land. Overnight at hotel of your choice.

Day 6 Iquitos - Lima
Continental breakfast at the hotel.
At appropriate time transfer to the airport to board the return flight to Lima.