Pto. Maldonado - Sandoval Lake - Macaw clay lick - Heath river wildlife center

Trip Length : 4 Days
Route Cost : 555 dollars
Activities : Roundtrip transportation Puerto Maldonado to Heath River Wildlife, private bungalows with private bathrooms, all meals and snacks, purified drinking water and juices, native and bilingual guide services, visits to macaw clay lick, lake and rainforest excursions, all park entrance fees
Included: 3 lodge nights, (2 in Sandoval Lake and 1 in Heath River Wildlife Center, 2 lodge nights, great food, expert guides, the best quality expedition equipment.

Trip Rating : Easy to Moderate
Daily departures : Minimun 2 people

Only four hours by river from Puerto Maldonado airport, Heath River Wildlife Center is the gateway to the largest uninhabited and unhunted rainforest in the Amazon. An immensely photogenic macaw clay lick, capybaras, oxbow lakes with Giant Otters, hundreds of birds and mammal species and a lodge 100%-owned by the Ese´eja Indians of Sonene make the Heath the best combination of nature and culture in the entire Amazon. No other lodge in Tambopata is 100% owned and operated by a community of lowland Indians.
Every person in Sonene speaks the original indigenous language, with Spanish being a distant second used mostly in school and to trade with outsiders and, now, to chat with pampered guests. Women from Sonene hold daily crafts workshops at the lodge, teaching visitors tribal traditions handed down through the millennia.

Though very traditional, the lodge in Sonene does not sacrifice comfort in the least. Guests enjoy roomy, private, double-occupancy bungalows with electric fans and en-suite facilities with hot showers. The combination of the most accessible and most photogenic large macaw lick and the warmth and uniquely traditional hospitality of our Indian hosts make Heath River Wildlife Center and Sandoval Lake Lodge the Amazon´s best value in wildlife and authentic rainforest adventure.

Our short Sandoval Lake program includes two nights of fully-screened accommodation in 25 double-occupancy rooms complete with en suite facilities with hot-water showers, electricity, fans, meals, airport transfers in Puerto Maldonado, naturalist guides, lake excursions by day in search of Giant Otters, monkeys, and macaws, forest excursions, night excursions in search of caimans, and evening slide shows. Our lodge specializes in small groups and individualized attention in our overriding quest to conserve the lake and surrounding rainforest. Sandoval Lodge is built out of ecologically-correct driftwood mahogany and is owned jointly by a nonprofit conservation group and five families of indigenous Brazil nut collectors.