Manu Wildlife Center Manu, Peru

"...Manu Wildlife Center offered, hands down the most intense wildlife experience I've had in the Amazon....." Conde Nast Traveler - December 2002

From Cusco this lodge is only 45 minutes by air plus 90 minutes by river. No other lodge in Manu offers all these major wildlife attractions in one spot:

• The world's largest tapir lick.
• The most photogenic large macaw lick.
• Miles of monkey-rich trails through mature rain forest.
• Two 120-foot-tall (35-m) canopy platforms.
• Two mature lakes complete with Hoatzins and Giant Otters.

Manu Wildlife Center is located in a private, 16,190 ha./40,000-acre rain forest reserve adjacent to the one million-acre protected area named the “Amarakaeri Reserved Zone”. The tapir lick is a comfortable ninety minutes on foot from the lodge, while the macaw lick is a half-hour boat journey plus a short walk away.

Visitors will welcome the amenities and comfort of this lodge, the only one in the Manu lowlands with roomy, private bungalows, en suite private bathrooms and tiled, hot water showers -- especially if they are arriving from the rustic simplicity of Manu National Park. 

Here they can charge batteries, check their e-mail, wash their hair and order a drink under the high thatched roof of the grandly spacious all-wooden dining hall, bar and lounge. (Conservation note: the cedarwood used in construction was salvaged from uprooted trees washed downriver by the annual floods).

Manu Wildlife Center Tours - Prices

Tour program operates from May through October.

4 Days & 3 nights program
We have fixed departures dates that depart from Cusco. Please ask.

5 Days & 4 nights program
Fixed departures

Rates 2012

What we include:

• Round trip transfers to and from the Cusco Airport
• Round trip canoe transportation from Puerto Maldonado to the lodge
• Private bungalows with private bathrooms
• All meals and snacks
• Purified drinking water and juices
• Bilingual naturalist guide
• Visits to macaw and tapir clay licks, oxbow lake, canopy platforms and trail hikes

   Pre-Departure Information
   See Manu Wildlife Center Trail System
   See More Photo Gallery of Manu Wildlife Center
   Read More About Macaw Clay Licks
   Manu Wildlife Center Bird List

Comments about Manu Wildlife Center from tour guides and magazines

	Conde Nast Traveler
	“…Manu Wildlife Center has become a base of choice for elite bird-watching tours and wildlife-documentary crews- people willing to spend good money to be treated well..”

	Moon Handbook
	... high-end Manu operator is InkaNatura Travel, which is one of Peru´s leading operators, with programs in Chachapoyas, Puerto Maldonado, and the jungle around Quillabamba as well.InkaNatura is the profit-making arm of the Peru Verde conservation organization that owns Manu Wildlife Center.

Insight guides of Discovery Channela

scintillanting rainforest option in this arca is Manu Wildlife Center, two hours downstream from Boca Manu. The Wildlife Center, just outside the Manu Biosphere reserve, is in a large area of privately owned rainforest with superb wildlife viewing. There area 48 Km. (30 miles) of trails, and some unique features, such as the nearby Blanquillo clay lick, where noisy flocks of parrots and macaws gather to ingest minerals, and a mudhule where tapirs (seldom sigthted elsewhere), are nightly visitors

Lonely Planet

A two-hour boat ride southeast (right) of Boca Manu of the Rio Madre de Dios takes you to Manu Wildlife Center. Although the lodge is not in Manu Biosphere Reserve, it is recommended for its exceptional wildlife-watching and birding opportunities... There are 48 km of trails around the Manu Wildlife Center, where 10 species of monkeys, as well as other wildlife, can be seen. Two canopy platforms are a short walk away, and one is always available for guests wishing to view the top of the rainforest and look for birds that frequent the canopy. A 3 km walk through the forest brings you to a natural salt lick, where there is a raised platform with mosquito nets for viewing the nightly activities of the tapirs.... A short boat ride on the Madre de Dios brings visitors to a well-known salt lick that attracts various species of parrots and macaws.