IQUITOS
AMAZONAS SINCHICUY LODGE
Set in a tropical garden with flowering trees and plants that attract multitudes of hummingbirds and butterflies of every imaginable colour, the Amazonas Sinchicuy Lodge gives you the opportunity to discover this area by natural history walks, visits to native communities, fishing, bird watching, canoeing, night hikes and sharing with the orphaned jungle creatures that have chosen this lodge as home, such as woolly monkeys and saddle backed tamarins that are often climbing through the trees or roaming freely on the grounds, enjoying the company of human beings.
PACAYA SAMIRIA RESERVE
This is the largest Protected Natural Area in Peru (2´080,000 ha), located at 300 km / 190 miles from Iquitos. Accessible only by waterways.
The wealth of the low lying Virgin Rainforest gives this area an enormous bio-diversity similar to the one of the Manu National Park, where also live several species not present in this area. The National Reserve has many lakes and lagoons and vast swamp areas.
Practically unexplored and uninhabited except for protected species in the interior, it offers an astonishing potential for research studies and observation of wild life, particularly of certain species in danger of extinction in other areas.
This area has more than 85 lakes and exuberant vegetation with a great variety of flora species such as the Lupuna Tree, measuring up to 160 feet tall with a diameter of 10 feet in four forest types. It also has 130 species of mammals such as the Jaguar, Ocelots, Giant River Otters and Capybara (the world's biggest rodent), and several species of monkeys in danger of extinction, like the black Maquisapa or Spider Monkey, the Yellow breast and the Common Woolly Monkey.
There are 350 bird species like Toucans and Blue, Yellow and Red Macaws. All this, plus the 150 reptiles of 20 families, makes our forest one with the largest number of species seen on any tourist trip in the world.
The most important source in the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve is the aquatic fauna, with 250 species of fish, such as the Paiche, the world's largest fresh water fish, weighing up to 250 lbs., and measuring up to 9 feet long, plus species of Turtles, Pink and Grey River Dolphins, and the Manatee.
There are no lodgings in the Reserve, but our staff can provide tents to permit you to experience a real expedition through a temporary camp.
This trip offers the opportunity to know new cultures and to explore the mysterious and magic world of the Amazon forest. It offers a variety of touching itineraries so diverse as the forest itself in the Lodges strategically located and their excellent location favours the observation of birds and the carrying out of the most diverse adventure expeditions, walks, to appreciate the countless variety of flora and fauna, to go fishing, opportunities for taking of pictures, to admire the Pink River Dolphins, to know and explore Shamanism and medicinal plants or perhaps just to rest in a hammock, observing the River and listening the sounds of the forest.