Itinerary
Day 1 Leticia – Tabatinga – Local Market – Santander park
Reception at Leticia Alfredo Vasquez Cobo International Airport and transfer to the Waira Suites hotel in Leticia and installation.Visit to the local market where you can have the experience of knowing the products of the jungle such as fruits, cassava and varieties of fish.
Tour of Tabatinga in local transport (cab or tuc tuc). where you can make stops at various points of interest, appreciating its culture and infrastructure. Visit of its market square and some stores that will give you an insight into the Colombian-Brazilian culture.
On the way back, at sunset, start the walking tour of the city of Leticia through the Santander Park, where you will be able to appreciate the parrots and in some seasons swallows that have their dormitory in this urban park. Enjoy an Amazonian fruit ice cream. Dinner and overnight.
Day 2 Mocagua – Cocoa Island – Puerto Nariño – Tarapoto Lakes – BioHotel Arará
Breakfast. Departure to Cacao Island located in Peru, in front of Puerto Nariño in approximately 2 kilometers in a straight line across the Amazon River.
Cacao Island has internal lakes where you can observe the largest aquatic plant in the world “Victoria Regia” and where you can observe birds and sloths. In low water season, you can cross traditional crops of yucca, banana, vegetables and some vegetables such as cucumber, pepper, tomato, ahuyama before reaching the community.
Continuation to Puerto Nariño by private native boat. Arrival and lunch.Tour of the village where you can see sculptures of the Amazonian fauna and ascend to the viewpoint from where you can see the Amazon River, the Loretoyacu River, the lakes and the rainforest.
Then, departure to Tarapoto Lakes, a Ramsar ecosystem where you will have the chance to observe pink and gray dolphins (in low water the dolphins will be observed at the mouth of the river).
Departure to BioHotel Arará. Arrival, installation. Dinner and Accommodation.
Day 3 BioHotel Arará – Mocagua – Maikuchiga foundation – Craft workshop with the community – Nightwalk in the jungle
Breakfast. Transfer to the dock to take the shared boat to Mocagua.
Arrival to Mocagua, an overlapping area of the Amacayacu National Natural Park and tour of the village and its painted houses.Then visit to the Maikuchiga Foundation, where a monitoring program is being developed to the Mico Churuco and the conservation and protection of primates, with this visit we will support this work and you can also learn how primates are essential in biodiversity. Return to the village and enjoy an Amazonian lunch of the community with products from the chagra and the river.
In the afternoon, handicraft workshop with the community (basketry, chambira or pottery) and at the according time return to BioHotel Arará in shared boat. Night walk to observe nocturnal fauna. Dinner and overnight.
Day 4 Biohotel Arará – Leticia – Vásquez Cobo Airport
Breakfast. At the indicated time departure by shared boat to the city of Leticia. According to the flight schedule, transfer to the airport or activities in Leticia.
*Depending on the schedule and itinerary of the program, we recommend visiting the ethnographic museum of Leticia at no additional cost or visiting Tabatinga in Brazil for an additional cost.
The experience ends, the memories begin.
What’s included?
- Reception at the airport and ground transfers in-out.
- Accommodations: 1 night in hotel Waira Suites or B&B Amazon in Leticia and 2 or 3 nights in BioHotel Arará, in selected accommodation.
- Full meals from lunch on the first day to breakfast on the last day.
- Filtered water (it is recommended to bring a bottle to refill) and seasonal fruit during the tours.
- Activities described in the program.
- Permanent bilingual or Spanish speaking guide.
- River transportation by shared boat BioHotel Arará – Mocagua – BioHotel Arará and BioHotel Arará – Leticia and private native boats Leticia – Isla Cacao – Puerto Nariño – BioHotel Arará.
- Entrance fees to specified sites and communities.
- Entrance tax to Puerto Nariño and Mocagua.
- Contributions to the communities.
- Loan of used boots with advance request (subject to size availability). Otherwise, they can be purchased in Leticia for an approximate value of $50.000.
- Medical assistance insurance.
- Expenses not specified in the plan.
- Entrance tax to Leticia (to be paid directly at the airport upon arrival: $45.000, rate 2024 (rate subject to change).
- Air tickets Bogota – Leticia – Bogota.
- Luggage carriers (for summer season July-November: $80.000 per person.
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