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MACKAW CLAY LICK MANU, FROM THE ANDES TO THE RAIN FOREST Highlights: Hike in Cloud &Tropical Rainforest. Watch the flora and fauna, the Cock of the rock. Visit the Matshiguenka native community, Parrots clay lick.

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Manu

Manu

You wake up early to leave Cusco and begin a winding ascent into the Andes. The road eventually winds down to the town of Paucartambo Colonial Town, where you will stop briefly to stretch your legs.
Leaving Paucartambo you begin your ascent through eucalyptus groves, cultivated fields, and remnant patches of native vegetation. Forty minutes from Paucartambo you reach Acjanaco at 3,500 meter atop the Eastern Cordillera of the Andes. At this point you have entered the Manu Biosphere Reserve where you are above the clouds gazing below into the lush jungle of the Amazon. As you ascent down from Acjanaco, the baron Paramo starts to change to an elfin forest.

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PARROTS CLAY LICK MANU, FROM THE ANDES TO THE RAIN FOREST Highlights: Hike in Cloud &Tropical Rainforest. Watch the flora and fauna, the Cock of the rock. Visit the Matshiguenka native community, Parrots clay lick.

Day 1

Ninamarca

Cloud Forest

Leaving Cusco early, we will pass through the pre-Inca tombs of Ninamarca, the colonial town of Paucartambo known as the region’s folklore center. The next stop is Acjanacu (3,530m/11,870ft) which is the entrance to the Manu Biosphere, where we will see the Amazon Basin. After that, we’ll descend through different ecological levels such as the puna, the elfin forest, down into the lush Cloud Forest, along the way we may see endemic flora and fauna such as, butterflies, giant tree ferns and orchids, monkeys, birds like toucans, tanagers, etc. The Cloud Forest is home of Peru’s National bird which is “the Cock of the Rock” (Rupicola peruviana) and the spectacled bear (tremarctus ornatus) -the only bear found in South America. We spend the night at a comfortable Lodge.(L,D)

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