Tahuayo Lodge & the Amazon Research Centre

Arrival
Transfer in from airport or hotel

From airport: After clearing baggage security in Iquitos Airport, you will exit from the nearest door and look for our staff in the parking lot waiting area. They will be wearing uniforms and tee shirts with our logo (head of a hoatzin bird in a diamond shape).

Our staff will then take you to board your speedboat transfer up the Amazon (4 hours) and then on to the Tahuayo tributary to the lodge. This afternoon you will be able to begin your exciting excursions.

Dinner included.

Guided Excursions
From the main lodge

Guided excursions in and around the Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo Reserve.
Every day your guide will discuss a selection of activities that you can choose to do. There is no extra cost for a private guide or customising your itinerary to suit your needs and interests.

The main lodge has the greater variety of excursions of our two lodges. The following is a sample list:

Canopy platforms and ziplines
Hike into Varzea forest behind the lodge where you are likely to see Pygmy Marmosets, Owl Monkeys, Yellow-Crowned Brush Tailed Rats, Wire-Tailed Manakins and Barber Bees. It is also possible that you will see black Tamarins, Saddle-Backed Tamarins and Trogons.

Hike to Lake Tapaje and explore by canoe.
You will canoe into Tahuampa forest (flooded forest) passing giant Ficus trees. Be sure to look out for Hoatzin birds, Horned Screamers, Caiman and the beautiful little Poison Dart Frogs. On the cruise along to the site we will stop to see Woolly Monkeys which are tame enough to approach the boat (and receive a banana). You will then visit the bat cave.

Board the motorboat to Lake Charo to see pink dolphins swimming. En route you will look for Squirrel Monkeys, sloths, raptors.

Fish for Piranha.

Visit the native village of El Chino where you will stop by the market, visit a shaman, a farm and/or a school.

Lunch and Dinner included.

Transfer to the Amazon Research Centre
*To the Amazon Research Centre lodge.

The Research Centre is more remote so we will need to take a boat there. On the boat ride we will stop to see bats, sloths, monkeys, raptors and Toucans.
We have over 100km of hiking trails from the research centre that we can choose from, most of the trails are laid out in a grid to facilitate the scientific collection of population data. The trails go through several ecosystems including Bajial, High and Low Restinga. We can see many different species of monkeys including Brown and White Capuchins, Saki Monkeys, Titi monkeys, Squirrel monkeys, Pygmy Marmosets, Moustached Tamarins, Saddle-Backed Tamarins and sometimes, Uakaris, as well as Giant Tayra Weasels and Tamandua Anteaters. Data collected from camera traps reveal that a high number of Jaguar live here but they are rarely seen.
Cruising along the various lakes and rivers from the research centre we often see caiman as well as the highly endangered giant river otters.

Hike to Lake Yarina (full day) we can see Hoatzins in their nests, Blue and Yellow Macaws and Howler Monkeys.

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner included.

Return to Iquitos
Morning return to the main lodge.

Afternoon boat to Iquitos, arriving 3-4pm. Transfer to the airport or hotel.