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.
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