2-day / 1-night Lake Sandoval

Arrival and reception by your guide: Our guides are highly experienced professionals with a deep knowledge of the area and rainforest, we provide 1 guide for a group of maximum 8 people. Transfer from the airport to our main office in town: Upon arrival in Puerto Maldonado you will be driven for few minutes to our office in town. At our office we recommend you to pack only the necessary items you need for your next couple of days, the main luggage can stay at our safe deposit. Transportation it’s easier that way, and keep our boats and porter cargo light, we provide you duffels at the office if necessary, we also provide you rubber boots for muddy trails, and you can select a proper size from our collection. Transfer from our office to Tambopata River Port: In the full company and orientation of our guide we navigate down the Tambopata River for almost 5 minutes to its junction with the Madre de Dios River, then a further 30 minutes journey down the river by motor canoe brings you to the entrance trail to Lake Sandoval. Boxed lunch on the boat. We can customize your box lunch with a vegetarian option & we also provide cold bottled drinks in the boat. The trail takes you on a 1.6 mile (2.5 km) walk through a successional forest & former giant natural bamboo forest, a habitat for monkeys, sloths and macaws, until we reach a small canal where we board our paddle-canoes. We paddle for 100 meters (nearly the same in yards) through a palm-forest swamp with an abundance of “aguajes” (mauritia palms) which provide the favourite fruit of the Peruvian rainforest, consumed not only by the wildlife, but by locals as drinks and ice-creams. Once onto the glass-like surface of the lake, we continue leisurely around the lake to the lodge. Accommodation and a short rest, in your room or in our hammocks Before dinner & depending on your arrival time we set off to explore part of the lake, looking for monkeys (brown capuchin monkeys and squirrel monkeys are active at this time of day) or black caiman ( black caiman are the largest member of the caiman and alligator family with the record at the lake being 6 m/20 ft). In the flooded palm forest we can see flocks of red-bellied macaws as they return to roost. This is one of the few species of macaws that live in flocks in mauritia palm swamps such the one at Lake Sandoval. We also have the option of a night walk into the forest behind the lodge. Dinner at the lodge. Please read these important guidelines

An early wake-up call and meeting at the lodge’s dining room to visit the lake for sunrise, and a hopeful encounter with the friendly family of giant river otters who are highly active at this time on the lake. Giant river otters each eat an average of 8 pounds (4kg) of fish a day. Lake Sandoval offers an abundance of wildlife including: 6 species of monkeys, black caiman, over 40 species of birds resident to the lake shore, all 5 species of kingfishers of Peru, and the largest flock of hoatzins. The animals here are relatively easy to photograph from the boats. Return to the lodge for breakfast. Departure after breakfast. Please read these important guidelines