Itineraries
Our lodge on the Tahuayo River has access to a great variety of ecosystems that we can explore as well as many native communities downriver. There are sufficient English speaking native men and women guides so that each person can go at their own pace and according to their interests. This is ideal for people who do not want to be stuck with a large group on a pre-set itinerary.
You can choose a photographer's pace, a soft pace or a ruggedly adventurous pace. You can concentrate more on birdwatching, canoeing, canopy exploration, fishing or native culture. You can be active before breakfast or well into the evening.
Families can have a private guide who specializes in working with pre-teens or young teens. Special itineraries are available for marriages, honeymoons, anniversaries, and other special occasions.
There are many facilities, offered by no other tour operators, to give you unique experiences in exploring the rainforest. One example is the canopy zipline system. Many companies have canopy walkways or towers, but only with the Tahuayo lodge can you actually fly from tree to tree, with nothing underfoot except a hundred feet of rainforest. Another example is the newest in underwater hydrophonic technology, to allow guests to actually listen to the communication of pink dolphins and other aquatic animals.
Tourists with passionate interests in primates, orchids, native culture or other subjects may request to participate in scientific studies. For tourists interested in conservation research we have a trail grid behind our research centre where we find four different species of primates.
Travellers wanting the ultimate in adventure can leave the lodge with their guide and camp in the old growth terra firma forest in the interior of the reserve. Listed is a sample of itinerary options to choose from, the greatest range of itinerary options in the Amazon. Most are available year round, but if there are recommended seasons, these are noted in parentheses. All are guided by our staff.
Wildlife
Culture
Relaxation
Adventure
- Excursions to see feeding or nesting macaws, parrots, and toucans.
- Follow jaguar or peccary tracks in the forest.
- View unusual beetles and leaf hoppers.
- Hike to a manakin lek.
- Canoe portage to interior lakes, called cochas, rich in wildlife.
- View pygmy marmosets, the world's smallest primates, which live in trees close to the lodge.
- View tree frogs and poison dart frogs, including several species newly discovered.
- Observe electric eels.
- Birding (a list of 540 species for the area near the lodge has been compiled).
- Search for giant anaconda (Jun-Oct).
- Observe monkeys on the trail grid behind the research centre.
- Listen via hydrophone to the underwater sounds of aquatic animals.
- Visit a butterfly colpa where hundreds of species swarm (July-Oct)
- Evening boat trips to view southern constellations and nocturnal wildlife, such as boat-billed herons, potoos, owl monkeys, and more.
- View sloths, anteaters, and other mammals.
- Participate in a conservation management project for poison dart frogs.
- Insect collecting.
- Search for boa constrictors and other snakes.
- View brilliant tropical fish such as cichlids, angel fish, tetras, etc.
- Visit conservation projects.
- Swim in a black water lake with pink dolphins.
- Take a close look at the unusual hoatzin birds (young fledge Jun-Aug).
- Fish for piranha.
- Medicinal plant hikes.
- View caiman crocodiles (Jul-Oct).
- Fish for peacock bass, *must bring own gear* (late Jun-Jul).
- Observe a variety of primate species.
- Explore the canopy on our unique tandem zip-line system.
- Canoe around giant, fortress-like ficus (Dec-Jun).
- Hike to see giant kapoks.
- Marine fossil collection (Aug - Sep).
- Watch Parakeets feeding at kapok (Jun).
- Visit a native shaman.
- Take a trip to a native elementary school (Jun-Dec).
- Visit a native artisania market
- Meet native Amazonian communities.
- Visit a native family, via translator hear oral traditions and native lore.
- Watch traditional native dances.
- Learn the weaving of native baskets.
- Swim in a black water lake, which has warm thermal springs.
- Have a revitalizing morning bath with medicinal plants.
- Hike and camp in remote terra firma forest.
- Jungle survival training.
- Fish with traditional native bow or spear.
- Canoe into flooded varzea forest (Feb-May).
