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Located
a 25 minute motor canoe ride down the River Madre de Dios from Puerto
Maldonado, Sandoval Lake Lodge is perched above what many rainforest
specialists feel is the most attractive lake in Southern Peru, if not
in the entire Peruvian Amazon.
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Day
1 Transfer from Puerto Maldonado airport to the river port on the Madre de Dios River. A 25 minutes journey down the Madre de Dios River by motor canoe brings you to the end of the trail in to Sandoval Lake Lodge. From here the trail takes you on a 2-mile walk/or rickshaw ride through secondary forest, until we reach a small canal where we board canoes and are paddled 220 yards through a flooded forest of 100-foot tall Mauritia palms. As the canal opens onto the shimmering surface of the lake, we transfer to a catamaran and are leisurely paddled across half the lake to the lodge. After lunch and a brief rest to avoid the early afternoon heat, we once again board the catamaran and set off to explore the entire west end of the lake. Here, in the flooded palm forest we drift to the sounds of hundreds of Red-Bellied Macaws as they return to the palm forest for the night. We return to the lodge around nightfall for dinner. After dinner we will return to the canoes to look for the large and extremely rare Black Caimans. If it is a clear starlit night, we will also be able to float in the middle of the lake and marvel at the brillance of the sky. |
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2 After a healthy breakfast we stat rafting around 10:00am. Today we will be in the water for about 4 1/2 hour doing mostly class III and IV rapids, dealing with another short portage stopping for lunch and arriving to camp between 3:00pm and 4:00pm, today weŽll have tea time and sleep on a sandy beach under the night sky of the southern hemisphere (B,L,D). |
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| Departures 2010: Daily | |
| Tour includes: Jungle explorations, lake visits in stable catamaran, full board, accommodations and entrance fee to Tambopata National Reserve, services with Spanish/English speaking guides. | |
| Not included: Air tickets, airport taxes, excess baggage charges, additional nights during the trip due to flight cancellations. Alcoholic beverages or bottled water, snacks, insurance of any kind, laundry, phone calls, radio calls or messages. | |
| 2010
Rates per person: High Season (April - November) : $198 in
double. Single supplement: $50 Low Season (Jan, Feb, Mar & Dec): $178 in double. Single supplement: $50 |
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| Sandoval Lake Lodge: What to bring, please click here | |
