Manu region of Peru
Simply the best wildlife destination in the Amazon.
By far the richest, most extraordinary biological transect in the Amazon or the world, starts in Cuzco and runs northeast by road and river to the great Manu Wilderness.
Manu offers by far the greatest quantity and diversity of animals and plants in the world. No other destination in Peru or beyond can compare. Here you can enjoy a superbly intact transect of tropical habitats from Andean grasslands and cloud forests down to foothill and lowland forests.
Manu boasts the highest bird, mammal, and plant diversity of any park on Earth, including 1,000 of the world's 9,700 bird species, 200 species of mammals, and 15,000 species of flowering plants. The most photogenic spectacles are frolicking Giant Otters, 1,000 parrots and macaws at a riverbank clay lick, dancing Cock-of-the-Rocks, habituated monkeys, and huge Lowland Tapirs at a forest clay lick.
One of our lodges, Manu Wildlife Center, currently offers the world's finest viewing of this elusive animal, which elsewhere is harder to see even than the Jaguar, which also is a frequent sight in Manu.
In terms of wildlife for your money, our Manu itineraries offer one of the greatest payoff of wildlife per dollar of any rain forest site in Latin America. Other New World rain forests may be somewhat less expensive to visit than Manu, but only a few of them offer Manu's tremendous wildlife diversity. For travelers who want the finest rain forest experience in the world, Manu offers the ultimate "bio-trip" from the Andes to the Amazon, or programs to the Manu National Park, a world Heritage Site.
All trips described here start and end in Cuzco and include all air and ground transport, food, lodging, and guided rainforest hikes.
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