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Trip Extension
Beyond Machu Picchu: The Four Worlds of Peru
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Peruvian Amazon
3 Nights from only $699

Discover Peru’s “fourth world”... and round out your explorations with this enchanted journey deep into Peru’s lush Amazon rainforest. You’ll experience this remarkable ecosystem in the best way possible, as you stay deep in the jungle, exploring by boat and on guided walks and hikes among one of the planet’s richest, most bio diverse regions. Yet you’ll enjoy it all in complete comfort, with your included three nights in Amazon’s finest eco-lodge, the Ceiba Tops Luxury Lodge.
All meals are included at this deep-forest lodge, as are daily explorations on foot and by boat with English speaking naturalist-guides. On these excursions, you’ll visit a small village of Yagua Indians, walk on Monkey Island, a private reserve that is home to more than five species of tropical primates, enjoy two visits to river communities, and see a delightful theater-dance performance by a local school group.

Your Price Includes

  • Roundtrip flight from Lima to Iquitos
  • 3 nights accommodations: 3 nights in the Peruvian Amazon at Ceiba Tops Luxury Lodge
  • 10 meals: 3 breakfasts, 4 lunches, 3 dinner
  • 12 sightseeing tours and Cultural Connections
  • All transfers & baggage handling (where permitted)

Please note: Prices are per person, double occupancy for June dates. Add $100 per person for all other dates. Singles add $99.

 
Your Trip Extension Itinerary
 
DaySchedule and Accommodations
1 Lima, Peru / Iquitos, Peru / Peruvian Amazon Rainforest

  • Early morning transfer to the Lima airport for flight to Iquitos, gateway to the Peruvian Amazon
  • Arrive Iquitos
  • Brief city orientation tour of Iquitos enroute to dock for boat trip
  • Scenic boat trip 25 miles up the Amazon to hotel, the most luxurious eco-lodge in the Peruvian Amazon
  • Check in to the lodge
  • Breakfast included at the lodge
  • Buffet lunch included at the lodge
  • Afternoon hike in the primary rainforest reserve, which includes huge trees festooned with epiphytes
  • Buffet dinner included at the hotel
  • After dinner there may be local flute or guitar music. Guides are always ready to relate legends of the Amazon forest.
  • Accommodations for three nights at the Ceiba Tops Luxury Lodge.

Please Note: All passengers must pay a Domestic Flight Tax of $6.05 USD per person. This amount must be paid in cash at the Lima airport. Amount subject to change by local government.



Ceiba Tops Luxury Lodge   (B,L,D)
2 Peruvian Amazon Rainforest

  • Early morning boat ride to Amazon Island for bird watching
  • Buffet breakfast
  • Morning boat ride to spot dolphins and visit a small village of Yagua Indians where your guide will discuss the local culture and how it was affected by the arrival of Europeans and the passage of time. There will also be an opportunity to see local crafts and for a demonstration of the blowgun, which is still used by some Yagua elders for hunting.
  • Buffet lunch included at the lodge
  • Afternoon excursion to the neighborhood town of Indiana, originally a Franciscan mission, that has grown into a substantial river community with its own market, high school, and small hospital
  • Buffet dinner at the lodge
  • Night walk to spot tarantulas and night birds


Ceiba Tops Luxury Lodge   (B,L,D)
3 Peruvian Amazon Rainforest

  • Early morning bird watching
  • Buffet breakfast
  • Morning boat ride to Monkey Island, a private reserve where more than five species of tropical primates are protected, including small tamarins, saki, titi, and large woolly monkeys
  • Buffet lunch at the lodge
  • Afternoon visit to a small neighboring river village to observe the simple way of life that follows the rhythms of the great Amazon River
  • Buffet dinner at the lodge
  • Evening theater and dance performance by Indianamia, a local school group that employs the costumes of four Amazonian tribes


Ceiba Tops Luxury Lodge   (B,L,D)
4 Peruvian Amazon Rainforest / Iquitos / Lima, Peru

  • Buffet breakfast
  • Early morning bird watching
  • Morning hike or boat ride
  • Lunch at the lodge
  • Boat transfer to the Iquitos airport for flight to Lima. (Note: A $4 USD per person airport tax is required for this flight.)
  • Late evening flight from Lima to the U.S.

Please note: Your flight departs Lima at approximately 12:20 am on Day 5, arriving in the U.S. later that morning.


5 Arrive U.S. / Return Home

  • You will be required to clear Immigration and Customs at your first point of entry into the United States

Please Note: All passengers departing Peru must pay an International Departure Tax of $30.28 USD per person. This amount must be paid in cash at the Lima airport (amount subject to change).