UJ #9 - Adventure in Peru

PUERTO ENTREVISTA MALDONADO-
RAINFOREST
PROGRAMME
4D/3N
DAY 1 PUERTO MALDONADO-REFUGIO
AMAZONAS
- Arrival and reception by your guide.
- Transport from the airport to the office in Puerto
Maldonado.
- Transport from the Puerto Maldonado office to the
port of Tambopata.
- Transport by boat from Tambopata to Refugio Amazonas.
- Lunch (box lunch).
- Dinner.
- Expedition in search of alligators.
- Overnight stay at Refugio Amazonas
DAY 2 REFUGIO AMAZONAS-TAMBOPATA
NATURE RESERVE
- Breakfast.
- Visit to the lake.
- Lunch.
- Visit to a local farm.
- Ethnobotany tour
- Dinner.
- Presentation about the Tambopata Nature Reserve.
- Overnight stay at Refugio Amazonas.
You also have your own land in Quincemil. Are you thinking of using
it for tourism in any way?
Yes, I’m working on a tended camp project, that is, a campsite for those who
want to experience camping and nature without having to carry a tent or sleeping
bag. I will have ten tents, a cooking and eating area and fully equipped
bathrooms. Apart from that, I’m making a kitchen garden to produce organic
vegetables, fruit and mushrooms. Everything grows here! My idea is to concentrate
on growing native mushrooms.
“The biodiversity of this area is impressive. On my land you can see mammals
such as tapirs, anteaters, sajinos, martas and armadillos; they all use it, the
important thing is not to them”.
How do you see Peru as an adventure tourism destination?
I see it as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for travellers, wherever they go.
There are innumerable options for all tastes; from crossing the desert on a
pre-Hispanic road, to climbing the most spectacular mountains in the world.
After the Himalayas, the world’s highest peaks are here, in the Andes. Furthermore,
Peru has an incomparable combination of nature and culture; that is
difficult to find anywhere else.
Which activity attracts most adventure tourists to Peru and which has
the greatest potential for growth?
In first place is trekking, then mountain biking; there is much more to be done
in this sector. Cyclists are impressed by the variety of routes we have.
“Thanks to roads such as the Southern Inter-Ocean Highway, new adventurers
are emerging: bikers. Groups come to Peru from Brazil, go on to Chile
and end up in Patagonia or cross Argentina to Uruguay and Paraguay. This
is a new segment and we have to take advantage of it. In the high season
twenty or thirty motorbikes traverse the highway every day”.
DAY 3 REFUGIO AMAZONAS
- Breakfast.
- Visit to a salt lick to see parrots and other birds.
- Lunch.
- Visit to chestnut wood and chestnut gatherers.
- Visit to a salt lick used by mammals.
- Dinner.
- Night-time ramble.
- Overnight stay at Refugio Amazonas.
DAY 4 REFUGIO AMAZONAS-TAMBOPATA-
PUERTO MALDONADOO
- Breakfast.
- Transport by boat from Refugio Amazonas to the
port of Tambopata.
- Transport from Tambopata to the office in Puerto
Maldonado.
- Transport from the Puerto Maldonado office to the
airport.