PERU – PERUVIAN AMAZON (Loreto, San Martin)
Boat Leticia to Iquitos.
Santa Rosa (10 minutes to cross the river from Leticia) to Iquitos. floating immigration office across the river from Santa Rosa for your entrance and exit stamps. The Colombian and Peruvian immigration offices are next to each other on this small island. Twice per day boat. Take a small boat or walk from the little bridge in Leticia and follow the muddy trail through the pueblito.
Slow Boat. 3 days (twenty stops), sleep in a hammock, slow boat also has small cabins with bunkbeds for 200 PEN ($53). Food is included, has power outlets. Bring water, mosquito repellent and toilet paper
Boats depart from Santa Rosa’s main dock every day around 18:00-19:00, except for Sundays, arrive at Iquitos on the morning of the third day. Passport stamped at the immigration office. Be sure to buy your ticket well in advance and be at the port on time.
Fast Ferry. 16h 10m – 18h 10m, ($43).
Previously, there were three ferry companies – Transtur, Golfinho, and Flipper used to depart early in the morning from Tuesday to Sunday. Now only Ferry Amazonas departs at 17:00, but you need to board as early as 15:00. Online booking is not available for Ferry Amazonas. Tickets ($67), which includes breakfast.
Ferry Amazonia – Amazon River Consortium +51 (065) 23318
sales@confluam.pe. // ferryamazonia.com
12h, 3 times a week. Schedules at facebook.com
IQUITOS World Cities and Popular Towns
Airports: Iquitos (IQT)
History, Culture, National and City Museums
Iquitos: Mi Museo Iquitos
Iquitos: Museum of Indigenous Amazonian Cultures
Architectural Delights: Iquitos: Ex Hotel Palace
Markets: Iquitos: Mercado Belén
Maritime/Ship Museums
Iquitos: Ayapua
Iquitos: BAP America
Bizzarium: Lamas Castle
TARAPOTO
Airports: Tarapoto (TPP)
History, Culture, National and City Museums: Tarapoto: Museo Chanka y de la Diversidad Lamista
YURIMAGUAS
MOYOBAMBA
DARE
Mariscal Ramón Castilla Province extreme east (Caballococha)
San Martin district (San Martin department east)
Santa Rosa island
RIO ABISEO NP WHS is home to a large number of species of flora and fauna, as well as over 30 pre-Columbian archaeological sites.
The park comprises an isolated river basin covered by forests, transitioning into a mountain landscape at higher elevations. The critically endangered Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey is known to live in the park and relies on it for its survival as a species. The most famous archaeological site in the park is Gran Pajatén, a ruined settlement that was occupied between 900 and 200 BCE, and 200 BCE to 600 CE.
This is one of the most difficult to visit WHS in South America. 3 days of travelling to see only a tiny corner of a vast national park
21-hour overnight bus from Trujillo (Chan Chan) to Tarapoto and then 3 hours by minivan/colectivo to Juanjui. From Juanjui, 40 minutes by car to Huicungo, a village on the Rio Huayabamba. 30-minute boat ride upstream to Río Abiseo which runs into Río Huayabamba, then 1.5 hours upstream to the lodge. Parts are very shallow and may need to wade. Boat into the National Park/WHS for about 30 minutes to the Catarata Maquisapa. This is the only place visited in the WHS.
Summary: Fly Lima to Tarapoto (2 hours), drive to Juanjui (3 hours). The next day, drive by car and boat to the waterfall Maquisapa (4 hours one way) and back to Juanjui the same day. Recommend stay 2 nights in Abiseo Lodge (Website) next to the park ranger house and only a 10-minute boat ride from the official NP territory. the lodge. Catarata Maquisapa 15 meters; a 15 minute walk. The lodge is in “high jungle”, not flat and low like Amazon rainforest. There’s less wildlife compared to Manu. An adventure & nature holiday.
Tentative WHS
Chachapoyas sites of the Utcubamba Valley
Sierra del Divisor National Park
World of Nature
Abiseo River Park
Alexander von Humboldt National Forest
Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve
Alto Purús NP
Cordillera Azul NP
Güeppí Sekime NP
Pacaya Samiria National Reserve
Pucacuro National Reserve
Sierra del Divisor NP
Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Regional Conservation Area
Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Reserve
Yaguas NP
Villages and Small Towns: Belén
Vestiges of the Past: Contamana: Cementerio Arqueologico San salvador
Botanical Gardens: Moyobamba: Agro Oriente Viveros
Waterfalls: Contamana: El Llanto de la Anaconda
Caves, Sinkholes and Saltmines: Cueva de Palestina
Lakes: Lake Maynas
Indigenous Peoples: Huni Kuin
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PERU – SOUTHERN SIERRA
CUSCO
Airports: Cusco (CUZ)
Art Museums: Cusco: Museo Maximo Laura
Archaeology and Anthropology Museums: Cuzco: Qoricancha Site Museum
Natural History and Earth Museums: Cusco: Museo De Historia Natural
Zoos: Cuzco: Cochahuasi Animal Sanctuary
Hospitality Legends: Cusco: Inkaterra La Casona Hotel
Bizzarium: Cuzco: Área 21
Tentative WHS: Peruvian Central Railway
ON Viajero Cusco Hostel Deluxe 12 Bed Mixed Dorm Total Price CA$24.37
Phone +51 84 315224
Email cusco@hostelkokopelli.com
Address Calle San Andres 260, Cusco, Peru
ABANCAY
ANDAHUAYLAS
Railway, Metro, Funiculars, Cable Cars
Belmond Andean Explorer: Luxury Sleeper Train
Ferrocarril Central del Perú Experience
PeruRail
Vestiges of the Past
Andahuaylas: Complejo Arqueologico Curamba
Chullpas de Ninamarca
Cuzco: Q’enco Archaeological Complex
Moray Circular Terraces
Ollantaytambo Sanctuary
Parque Arqueologico Tipon
Pikillaqta Archaeological Site
Temple of Wiracocha
Religious Temples: Andahuaylillas: San Pedro Apóstol Church
World of Nature: Maras Salt Mines, Megantoni National Sanctuary, Otishi NP, Vinicunca (Rainbow Mountain)
Botanical Gardens
Aguas Calientes: Los Jardines de Mandor
Pisac: Felipe Marin Moreno Botanic Garden
Trails 1 – Treks
Ausangate Circuit
Cordiliera Vilcabamba Trek
Lares Trek
Salkantay Trek Machu Picchu
Trails 2 – Hikes: Aguas Calientes to Machu Picchu hike
Markets: Chinchero: Mercado de Chinchero
Well-being: Thermal Spa: Aguas Calientes
Pedestrian and Historical Bridges: Abancay: Puente Colonial Pachachaca
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PERU – MADRE de DIOS (Puerto Maldonado) and UCAYALI
MANU NATIONAL PARK WHS has a biodiversity that rarely can be found in any other place on Earth.
The isolated park comprises the catchment basin of the Manu River and part of that of the Alto Madre de Dios River. It holds an extremely broad range of ecosystems, resulting in high diversity and a high degree of endemism. Virtually all flora and fauna species are present in abundant numbers: more than 15,000 species of plants are found in Manú, up to 250 varieties of trees have been found in a single hectare and the park is home to over 800 species of birds. Furthermore, it’s a refuge for globally threatened mammal species such as Giant Otter, Giant Anteater, Ocelot and Jaguar. Enormous variety of trees, plants and monkeys.
The real indigenous are the Mashco Piro who still run naked through the jungle and live as nomads with low contact with people. It’s dangerous to meet them as we can not communicate with them. They have already killed two civilized locals on encounters with bow and arrow. Even more dangerous for the forest though are the Matchiguenkas as they as well as the Mashco Piros are allowed to hunt and cut trees in the national park. However, they originally came from the mountains/ Cusco region. Now they use their privilege to kill special animals and cut special trees to sell. The park rangers belong to the same ethnia so they will not stop them.
Bonanza Tours Peru Feb 26 – Mar 05 Manu Reserve Zone and Blanquillo Macaw Clay Lick to Pto Maldonado 8D/7N
Deposit US$105 paid 24/12/25
E Mail: info@bonanzatoursperu.comCalle Suecia 343 – Cusco – Perú. Mon. – Fri. 9 am until 5 pm
Start: Cusco End: Cusco. 4-8 people
Altitude Cusco (3,300m) Andes (3830m) Elfin Forest (3159m) Cloud Forest (1,500m) Amazon Basin (290m)
DAY 1: Cusco – Rainforest Lodge.- Leave Cusco by private bus, drive through the mountains to Paucartambo for a short walk. Tres Cruces, the entrance to the Cultural Zone of Manu and the cloud forest. San Pedro walk for one hour to visit the complex courtship lek displays of Cock of the Rock national bird of Peru (Rupicola peruviana), quetzal, trogon, monkeys and lot orchids. private Rainforest Lodge.
DAY 2: Rainforest Lodge – Bonanza Ecological Reserve.- Private bus to Atalaya – coca plantation, view point. Boat to Aguas Calientes, natural hot springs. Bonanza Lodge, afternoon walk one hour plus a night walk for spiders, insects and snakes.
DAY 3: Bonanza Ecological Reserve – (Mammals clay lick).- Vast trail system, monkeys, collared peccaries and birds such as eagles, parrots and toucans, medicinal plants, and giant trees. mammals clay lick Tapirs, Deers, Monkeys and many small rodents. Stay the whole night taking shifts to watch for nocturnal animals.DAY 4: Bonanza Ecological Reserve – Jaguar Eco Lodge (Biosphere Reserve).- Boat down river to Boca Manu, continue along the Manu River in Manu National Park 7 hours to Lodge Casa Matsiguenka. See herons, egrets, geese, Amazonian gulls, graters and raptors such as the Harpy Eagle (Harpia harpyja), Black Caiman (Melanosuchus Niger), White Caiman (Caimán crocodylus), as well turtles on the cedar trunks. Jaguar, 11 species of monkeys. Jaguar Ecolodge, night walk to observe arachnids, tarantulas and snakes.
DAY 5: Jaguar Ecolodge.- Cocha Salvador from a catamaran, see gamin herons and spider monkeys, giant otters fishing. Boat down river to Cocha Otorongo Lake, 26m high observation tower to see giant otters and black caimans, jungle monkeys.
Day 6: Jaguar Ecolodge – Blanquillo Lodge.- Boat Pakitza ranger station, the first biological station in Manu, trails. Tamarin monkeys are the smallest monkeys in the world. Afternoon trails, native plants, traditional medicines. Boat 6 hours trip down river to Tambo Blanquillo for the night. Jaguar
DAY 7: Blanquillo Lodge – Puerto Maldonado.- Boat to see parrots and Macaw Clay Lick, weather dependant. Boat downriver to Boca Colorado. bus to Puerto Maldonado, local lodge.
DAY 8: Puerto Maldonado – Cusco or Lima.- bus 8 hours to Cusco.
DARE: Purús Province (Ucayali extreme east)
World Heritage Sites: Manú National Park
PUCALIPA
Airports: Pucallpa (PCL), Puerto Maldonado (PEM)
Art Museums: Pucallpa: Agustin Rivas Museum
Religious Temples
Pucallpa: Catedral de Pucallpa
Pucallpa: Immaculate Conception Cathedral
Botanical Gardens: Pucallpa: Jardin Botanico Bio-Kuka
PUERTO MALDONADO
Zoos: Puerto Maldonado: Mariposario Tambopata
World of Nature
Manu NP
Tambopata National Reserve and Bahuaja-Sonene NP
Lakes: Sandoval Lake
Rivers: Madre de Dios River
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PERU – CENTRAL SIERRA (Ayacucho, Junin)
DARE: Peru – Ayacucho region – Huanta and La Mar provinces (extreme north)
Tentative WHS
Battlefield of Ayacucho
Cultural Landscape of the Sondondo Valley
Peruvian Central Railway
Santa Bárbara mining complex
HUANCAYO World Cities and Popular Towns
Airports: Ayacucho (AYP)
Archaeology and Anthropology Museums: Huancayo: Museo Salesiano Vicente Rasetto
Military, War and Police Museums: Huancayo: Lugar de la Memoria de la Región Junín
World of Nature: Huancayo: Torre Torre (Rock formations)
AYACUCHO
Tentative WHS: Battlefield of Ayacucho
History, Culture, National and City Museums: Ayacucho: Museo Historico Regional Hipolito Unanue
House and Biographical Museums: Ayacucho: Casa Museo Joaquín López Antay
Religious Temples: Ayacucho: Basilica Cathedral
The Dark Side: Ayacucho: Museo de la Memoria
Villages and Small Towns: Huancavelica
Road – 30A/B/C: Nazca-Cuzco-Puerto Maldonado
Road – National highway 3S and 3N (Cajamarca-Huancayo-Cusco-Juliaca)
World of Nature: Huaytapallana Area of Regional Conservation, Junin National Reserve
Otishi NP, Pampa Galeras–Barbara D’Achille National Reserve, Pampa Hermosa National Sanctuary, Titankayuq Area of Conservation
Botanical Gardens: Chumpi: Jardín Botánico Andino Pitunilla
Waterfalls
Bayoz Falls
Junín: Tres Hermanas Falls
Caves, Sinkholes and Saltmines: Cueva de Huagapo
Lakes: Lake Junin or Chinchaycocha
Rivers: Mantaro River
Zoos: La Merced: Mariposario Zhaveta Yard
