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Lima | Cusco Tambopata

Refugio Amazonas - Family Program for Kids

  • 4 days / 3 nigths
  • Tambopata

Our Family programs for kids focus on being educational and entertaining at the same time. We have partnered with an educational NGO to set up two trails at Refugio Amazonas based on the story of a six-year-old girl living in the rain forest called Ania.

Kids will feel as if they were part of the story and will learn how to value their relationship with the Earth. Adults are welcome to join but can choose to do other activities. www.ecopybags.com

  • Arrival & Reception by Kids Guide One of our regular naturalist with a feel for kids will be assigned to your groups. If solicited, a separate guide will be assigned to the rest of the family for regular activities.
  • Transfer Airport to Puerto Maldonado Headquarters Upon arrival from Lima or Cusco, we will welcome you at the airport and drive you ten minutes to our Puerto Maldonado headquarters. While enjoying your first taste of the forest in our gardens we will ask you to pack only the necessary gear for your next few days, and leave the rest at our safe deposit. This helps us keep the boats and cargo light.
  • Transfer Pto Maldonado Headquarters to Tambopata River Port Skirting Puerto Maldonado, we drive 20 kilometers to the Tambopata River Port, entering the Native Community of Infierno. The port is a
  • communal business.
  • Transfer Boat - Tambopata River Port to Refugio Amazonas The two and a half hour boat ride from the Tambopata Port to Refugio Amazonas will take us past the Community of Infierno and the Tambopata National Reserve´s checkpoint and into the bu€er zone of this 1.3 million hectare conservation unit.
  • Boxed Lunch
  • Orientation Upon arrival, the lodge manager will welcome you and brief you with important navigation and security tips.
  • Dinner
  • Circle of fire The first night, as a prelude to the upcoming activities that will take place with our guide, we head towards the circle of fire. A series of burners lights the path that leads through the forest and meets at the circle of fire. This is where Tawa, the ancient healer, house is with all its instruments and magic potions and extracts prepared from plants of the forest. There we sit and listen to our guide through the story "Ania and the Voice of the World" and learn the story and characters. It is the starting point for the adventure that awaits us in the coming days.
  • Overnight at Refugio Amazonas
  • Breakfast
  • Canopy Tower: A thirty minute walk from Refugio Amazonas leads to the 25 meter scaffolding canopy tower. A bannistered staircase running through the middle provides safe access to the platforms above. The tower has been built upon high ground, therefore increasing your horizon of the continuous primary forest extending out towards the Tambopata National Reserve. From here views of mixed species canopy flocks as well as toucans, macaws and raptors are likely.
  • The Children's Rainforest Playground: We play the “game of seeds” and learn all the powers that the seeds of the forest have. Together with our guide we learn how to collect seeds in our walks, which will help find special powers and thus better able to seek the “Treasure of ANIA.” Each seed represents a different level, we pass the 5 levels: Pona: Truth, Huasai: Friendship Cashapona: Courage, Huayruro: Freedom, Yarina: Love.
  • Lunch
  • The Children's Rainforest Trail: Ania & The World´s Voice An exciting journey designed for children ages 4 to 10 years, we travel with our guides on a challenging (but short) walk, where we follow maps, solve riddles and nd clues that will lead to the "treasure of ANIA.” The path includes a visit to the houses of ANIA and TAWA , the grandfather of the woods. Searching for the “lost Brazil nut”, the city of ants and other fun games teaches children how people live in the rainforest, why keep it and leave a valuable message ANIA: "A child born into the jungle to fill our hearts with hope." The concept, history and the way are all registered in the name of ANIA, a nonprofit organization with a mission to create 100,000 acres of "Land of Children"- private, protected areas managed for children.
  • Dinner
  • Night walk You will have the option of hiking out at night, when most of the mammals are active but difficult to see. Easier to find are frogs with shapes and sounds as bizarre as their natural histories.
  • Overnight at Refugio Amazonas
  • Breakfast
  • Oxbow Lake Visit We will paddle around the lake on a canoe or a catamaran, looking for lakeside wildlife such as hoatzin, caiman and hornerd screamers, hoping to see the otters which are infrequently seen here. You will also be rewarded with overhead sightings of macaws.
  • Lunch
  • Ethnobotanical Tour Along this trail we will nd a variety of plants and trees that are used by the local population with at least the same variety of purposes. We will learn about the medicinal (and other) uses  of Ajo-Sacha, Yuca de Venado, Uña de Gato, Charcot-Sacha, Para-Para, among several others.
  • Rainforest Tattoo At the lodge, we will prepare a paste from the fruit of huito and achiote to draw dark blue and red tattoos on ourselves. They last several days.
  • Dinner
  • Caiman Search: We will be out at the river’s edge at night, scanning the shores with headlamps and flashlights to catch the red gleams of reection from caiman eyes.
  • Overnight at Refugio Amazonas

  • Breakfast
  • Transfer Boat - Refugio Amazonas to Tambopata River Port
  • Transfer Tambopata River Port to Pto Maldonado Headquarters
  • Transfer Puerto Maldonado Headquarters to Airport:  We retrace our river and road journey back to Puerto Maldonado, our office and the airport. Depending on airline schedules, this may require dawn departures.

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