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MANU BIOSPHERE
BIRDING TOUR

Explore the most biodiverse place on earth, the Manu Road and Manu Biosphere Reserve. You can expect to see well over 500 species, including many endemics found nowhere else in the world!

2008 Peru Birding Tour
Manu Biosphere Reserve
World's Greatest Bird Diversity

* Specific birding locales subject to adjustment based on guide recommendations and local conditions.

Manu Biosphere Reserve Aug 8-24, 2008 (17 days, 16 nights) Price $3400
Fri Aug 8	Lima Casa Andina Included Meals: None	Evening arrival and orientation.
Sat Aug 9	Cusco Pillahuata Safari Camp Included Meals: BLD	Early morning flight to Cusco. All day transfer along Manu Road to Pillahuata, birding en route.
Sun Aug 10	Pillahuata Kosnipata Valley Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge Included Meals: BLD	Early morning departure and all-day birding along Manu Road, arriving at Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge by evening.
Mon Aug 11	Kosnipata Valley Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge Included Meals: BLD	Full Day birding in the 2500-meter altitudinal zone around San Pedro.
Tues Aug 12	Kosnipata Valley Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge Included Meals: BLD	Early morning visit to Cock-of-the-Rock lek. Remainder of day birding 1500-meter altitudinal zone around Union.
Wed Aug 13	Kosnipata Valley Manu Biosphere Reserve Amazonia Lodge Included Meals: BLD	After dawn breakfast, depart Union and bird all day while en route to Manu Biosphere Reserve, arriving at lodge by evening.
Thurs Aug 14	Manu Biosphere Reserve Amazonia Lodge Included Meals: BLD	All day birding transitional zone around lodge at 500-meters elevation.
Fri Aug 15	Manu Biosphere Reserve Amazonia Lodge Included Meals: BLD	All day birding transitional zone around lodge at 500-meters elevation.
Sat Aug 16	Manu Biosphere Reserve Amazonia Lodge Included Meals: BLD	All day birding transitional zone around lodge at 500-meters elevation.
Sun Aug 17	Manu Biosphere Reserve Manu Wildlife Center Included Meals: BLD	Early morning birding around lodge. After breakfast transfer to Manu Wildlife Center via motorized canoes down the Alto Madre de Dios River (about 4 hours) and then down the Manu River (additional 2 hours), birding en route. Arrive at Manu Wildlife Center late afternoon.
Mon Aug 18	Manu Biosphere Reserve Manu Wildlife Center Included Meals: BLD	Next four days birding at Manu Wildlife Center. Highlights include visit to Blanquillo Macaw Clay Lick to observe hundreds of parrots and macaws from floating blinds and birding the extensive network of trails around the lodge.
Tues Aug 19	Manu Biosphere Reserve Manu Wildlife Center Included Meals: BLD	See previous day.
Wed Aug 20	Manu Biosphere Reserve Manu Wildlife Center Included Meals: BLD	See previous day.
Thurs Aug 21	Manu Biosphere Reserve Manu Wildlife Center Included Meals: BLD	See previous day.
Fri Aug 22	Manu Biosphere Reserve Cusco ??? Included Meals: BLD	Early departure for the airstrip at Boca Manu (2 ½ hours upriver). Then 45 minute flight by light aircraft to Cusco, arriving mid-day. Afternoon free time in Cusco.
Sat Aug 23	Cusco Lima Included Meals: B	Morning flight from Cusco to Lima. End of tour. Day use of hotel in Miraflores area of Lima. Optional day excursions can be arranged at extra cost for those with international flights in the evening.

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