Amazon Trails Perú offers tours from Cusco to the Manu National Park or to the Manu Biosphere, including our private Reserve Maquisapayoj, adjacent to the National Park. - A trip to the untouched rainforest with plenty of undisturbedwildlife! Amazon Trails Peru also offers various trekking tours, the Classic Inca Trail to Machu Picchu as well as several alternative treks. The Manu National Park was created in 1973 and established a Biosphere reserve in 1977; in 1987 it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, due to the world´s highest biodiversity in Manu. It is one of the largest and most important conservation units of the world, it protects an entire virgin watershed, covering altitudinal ranges from 200 m to 4100 m above sea level. On the tour we pass through different habitats of the Andes, cloud forest and lowland rainforest. In Manu you have the best opportunities to observe wildlife on the trails or along the Manu, Madre de Dios and Amiguillo Rivers. You have the chance to see the Giant Otters (Pteronura brasiliensis) in oxbow-lakes, Black and White Caimans (Melanosuchus niger, Caiman crocodylus), Harpy Eagles (Harpia harpyja), Jaguar, Giant Anteaters, Collared Peccaries, Tapirs (Tapirus terrestris), Capybaras, deer, 13 species of monkeys, Toucans (10 species), Macaws (7 species), Storks and an incredible number of other colorful birds. For more information, visit our website www.amazontrailsperu.net or look further on this page!
