Day 1: Arrive in Lima - Cusco

This day usually is just to arrive into Lima-Peru and we will pick you up from the airport early or late evening as usually international flights arrive to Peru and transfers to the hotel selected for the tour.

Day 2: Humboldt Penguin - Cusco

Morning birding for some sea birds a long the Pacific coast, Our first stop will be Villa marshes located at 30 minutes south of Lima where is a spectacular reserve for shore birds migrants & residents. Then we will go a bit further for about 3o minutes again to visit a nice fishing town Pucusana for a short boat trip searchign for humboldt Penguien, Red-legged & Guanay Cormorants, Surf Cinclodes (E), Peruvian Pelican, Inca Tern, Peruvian Booby. Then we will have a very fresh peruvian seafood & Pisco Sour to celebrate your arrival to Peru & amazing day. After great lunch we will head to Lima airport for our domestic flight to Cusco. Night in Cusco

Day 3: Lake Huacarpay, Sacred Garden, Acjanaco Pass (3,100 mts) to Manu Road (1,400 mts)

Early morning we will go to Huacarpay Lake located at 30 minutes south of Cusco where we will find Anden Gull, Plumbeous Rail, Many-colored Rush-Tyrant, Puna Teal and many other.  After few hours birding around this amazing place, we will head to San Salvador area to visit (Sacred Garden) for hummingbirds & Tanagers. Then we will start our birding adventure up to the most popular road in Peru Manu Road where we will enjoin a lot of different birds and amazing landscapes starting from 3,300 mt (11,150 ft) to San Pedro area at (1,450 mt). Night in CORL or MPL

Some species that we can see today: Chiguanco Thrush, Andean Lapwing, Band-tailed Seedeater, Hooded Siskin, Andean Flicker, Rusty-fronted Canastero (E), Creamy-crested Spinetail (E), Chestnut-bellied Mountain-Finch (E), Black-throated, Masked, Moustached Flowerpiercers, Hooded Mountain-Tanager, Scarlet-bellied Mountain-Tanager, Golden-collared Tanager, Grass-green Tanager, Montane Woodcreeper, Streaked Tuftedcheek, Band-tailed Tyrannulet, Capped Conebill, Superciliaried Hemispingus just to mentions some. Before or after dinner we will try for Rufescent Screech-Owl and Lyre-tailed Nightjar.

Day 4-5: Full days birding Manu Road & Lodge surroundings

Early visit for Andean Cock of the Rock  lek and then we will keep birding along the Manu Road with the chance to find mixed flocks of species as Versicolored Barbet, Beryl-spangled, Saffron-Crown, Golden, Orange-eared, Yellow-throated, Slaty, Golden-naped, Paradise, Blue-necked, Bay-headed, black-goggled Tanager, Yellow-bellied, Green & Gold, Spotted Tanagers, Deep-blue Flowerpiercer, Three-stripe Warbler, Russet-crowned Warbler, Black-faced Brush-finch, Golden-headed, Crested Quetzal, Amazonian Umbrellabird. And Wire-crested Thorntail, Speckled Hummingbird, Violet-headed Hummingbird, Peruvian Piedtail (E), Many-spotted Humminbird, Peruvian Botted Raquetail, Gray-mantled Wren, Blue-naped Chlorophonia, Mountain Foliage-Gleaner, Olive-Backed Woodcreeper, Stripe Threehunter, Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant, Marble-faced Bristle-Tyrant, Stripe-Chested Antwren, White-backed Fire-Eye, Black-eared Hemispingus, Yellow-breasted Antwren, Yungas Manakin, Yellow-throated, short-billed, common Chlorospingus, Dusky-Green, Russet-Backed, Crested Oropendolas, Rufous-tailed Tyrant, Chestnut-backed Antshrike, Unicolored Antshrike, Yellow-breasted Warbling Antbird just to mention some. We will visit also during ou birding days some private birding for hummingbird & Tanager feeders. Before or after dinner we will try for Rufescent Screech-Owl and Lyre-tailed Nightjar. Night in CORL or MPL

Day 6-7: Birding for Bamboo species, hummingbird, Tanager feeder

Early birding along the Manu Road descending to 400 mt for some Amazonian species. There are new birding spots close to the area: Mirador Pico de Oz & Inkamazonia both places have a hummingbird feeder and for tanager species and we are used to visit both places for Rufous-crested Coquette, Golden-tailed Saphire, Saphire-spangled, Blue-tailed Emeralds, Fork-tailed Woodnymph, White-necked Jacobin, Gray-breasted Saphirewing, Brown Violetear, Great-billed, White-bearded, Rufous-breasted, Koepcke’s (E) Hermits and many more. And in the afternoon, we will do some of the trails of the lodge for a bamboo specialist such as Bamboo Antshrike, Striated, Manu, Goeldi’s, White-lined, Antbirds, Rufous-headed Woodpecker, White-cheeked Tody-flycatcher, Black-backed Tody-flycatcher (E) and many more. And we will try to find some Tawny-bellied and Tropical Screech-owls, Black-banded Owl and Pauraque. Nights in Manu Biological Center (Villa Carmen Station)

Day 8-9: Birding Upper Manu Road up to 3,000 m

Today we will have a morning birding for some missing species along the bamboo trail before we leave and start our birding drive up to 3,000 meters where is located our last lodge in Manu Road. This area will provide us to watch: Scarlet-bellied Mountain-Tanager, Grass-green Mountain-Tanager, Chestnut-bellied Mountain-Tanager, Hooded Mountain-Tanager, Barred Becard, Red-crested and Chestnut-crested Cotingas, Slaty-backed Chat-tyrant, Golden-collared Tanager, Gray-breasted Mountain-Toucan, Blue-banded Toucanet (E), Red and White Antpitta (E), Marcapata Spinetail (E) Andean, white-cheeked Solitaries. One morning we will Early start with Urubamba Antpitta near the lodge. We will try to search for owls before or after dinner. Nights in Wayquecha Station

Day 10: Birding & Back to Cusco

Early birding and after we will head back to Ollantaytambo. Usually we arrive late afternoon. Night in Ollantaytambo

Day 11: Machu Picchu Time!

Early train ride to Aguas calientes around 2 hours and then bus drive for about 20 minutes to reach the Machu Picchu entrance where we will have an unforgettable experience along the Inca site for some hours in the morning. Then we can do some birding before our train back to Ollantaytambo and transfer to Cusco with a stop at Huaypo Lake for some wading species. then we will head to Cusco. Night in Hotel

Day 12: Flight to Puerto Maldonado

Flight to Puerto Maldonado town (120 mt). As soon as we arrive to Southern Amazon, we will be transfer to the main river dock at Madre de Dios River side to take our short boat trip for 30 minutes downstream with the chance to watch some wading bird species as Drab Water Tyrant, Southern Lapwing, Collared Plover, Large and Yellow-billed Tern. As soon we arrive to the entrance of Lake Sandoval located in Tambopata National Reserve, we will take the only trail available for visitors which in last few years was build a woody platform walkway along the trail making much easier to walk because before was all muddy and too hard to walk through. The trail is only 3 km to reach a small waterway where all visitors take a small boat with paddles and get into the main lake and lodges located at one side of the lake Sandoval allowed by the National Reserve. We will have a chance to find several species along the trail and along the lake on our way to our lodge to stay. Night in Sandoval Lodge

Day 13: Oxbow Lake birding, Giant River Otters, Monkeys

Early birding by boat along the lake for several species such as Ringed, Green, Amazon, Green and Rufous, Pygmy Kingfishers, Agami, Capped, Cocoi Herons, Green ibis, Sungrebe, Silvered, Banded Antbirds, Streak Antwren, Long-billed Woodcreeper, Point-tailed Palmcreeper, Hoatzin, Black-cowled Wood-Rail, White-winged, White-banded Swallows and many others species and with good luck a family of Giant River Otter, Black Caiman, Red-howler Monkey. After a great first hour of the morning, we will back for breakfast and then some birding along the trails with the chance to find: Cream-colored, Lineated, Ringed Woodpeckers, Crimson-crested, Red-necked Woodpeckers, Great, Bluish and Paradise Jacamar, Black-tailed, Blue-crowned, Collared, Amazonian Trogons, Amazonian, Rufous, Broad-billed Motmots, Pale-winged Trumpeter, Curl-crested, Ivory-billed, Letter, Chestnut-eared Aracaris, Buff-throated, Cinnamon-throated, Elegant, Inambari, Wedge-billed, Plain-brown, Long-tailed Woodcreepers, Black-faced, White-browed, Chestnut-tailed, Gray, White-throated Antbirds, Purple-throated, Bare-necked Fruitcrow, Golden-Collared Toucanet. Night in Sandoval Lodge

Day 14: Birding to Puerto Maldonado – Refugio Amazonas Lodge

Morning birding along the trails and after we will start our trip back to Puerto Maldonado to be transfer to our last lodge in Tambopata. The lodge is located at one side of Tambopata River by boat is 1 hour and with by car and boat 2 hours from Puerto Maldonado town. The lodge surrounding provides different types of forest to find some species that we did no see yet and there is a canopy tower about 43 mt hight providing an amazing view and better chances to see canopy species. Night Refugio Amazonas

Day 15: Macaw Clay lick & birding trails

Early visit the biggest concentration of macaws & parrots in Tambopata Reserve knows as Macaw Clay Lick, where more than hundred species meet every morning to socialize and some clay from the river cliff as part of their diet. After amazing morning we will head back to our Lodge. In the afternoon we will do the canopy tower and some trails, if time permits we will search for some owls. Night in Refugio Amazonas

Day 16: Morning birding & Flight to Lima

Early birding and then we will be transfer to Puerto Maldonado hotel and after we will keep birding for some species only found near Puerto Maldonado as Purus, White-throated, Bluish-fronted Jacamars, Straight-billed Woodcreeper, Hooded Tanager, Blue-headed Macaw, Rusty-backed Antbird, Black-bellied and white-faced whistling-duck, Brazilian Teal, Southern and Pied Lapwing and several other species. Then we will transfer you to the aiport for your flight to Lima

Have an Amazing Birding Holiday in Peru!