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• Reception at Iquitos airport or hotel pick-up in Iquitos.

• Drive along thel road from Iquitos to Nauta, the first city founded by the Spaniards on the banks of the Marañon. The journey on the 97 km long paved road takes about 1½ hours.

• At Nauta, board a boat to first visit the confluence of the Ucayali and Marañón rivers. Afterwards drive to the lodge.

• Arrival at the lodge.

• Lunch.

• Bird watching in the area surrounding the lodge: sightings include paradise tanager, hooded tanager, opal-crowned tanager, masked crimson tanager, purple-throated cotinga, various species of parrots and macaws.

• Dinner and conversation about the course of the next few days.

• Overnight at the Pacaya Samiria Amazon Lodge.

• Exploring the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve by boat in rivers and lakes hidden by vegetation and on foot along narrow trails in the middle of the jungle. Entrance to the protected area on the Yanayacu river, an area open to tourism with an exceptional wealth of birds (only here about 400 species of birds), animal and plant life.

• If desired, night walks can be undertaken to look for owls and other nocturnal birds, as well as black caimans.

• Visit to the community of Yarina to learn about the daily activities of the original inhabitants of the National Reserve. You can contribute to the development of the community by purchasing typical handicrafts made from seeds and tagua, known as vegetarian ivory.

• Some of the birds that can be observed: amazon kingfisher, ringed kingfisher, green-and-rufous kingfisher, american pygmy kingfisher, tanager finch, chestnut-eared aracari, red-cockaded woodpecker, spangled cotinga, lemon-throated barbet, white-eared jacamar, black-capped donacobius, horned screamer, black-collared hawk, jabiru, wood stork, roseate spoonbill, pied plover, black-tailed antbird, black-necked red-cotinga, grey-cheeked nunlet, lettered aracari, ivory-billed aracari, stripe-breasted woodpecker, rufous-capped antthrush, tropical gnatcatcher, yellow-billed jacamar ...

• Gray and pink dolphins, turtles, various monkeys and sloths can also be observed.

• Overnight in tents on a riverbank or in a clearing in the forest. Cold lunch at the current location.

• Day 4 return to the lodge, dinner and overnight at the lodge.

• After breakfast boat trip to Nauta.

• Drive to Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve, 27 km from Iquitos.

• Exploring the reserve on both days. The birds found here are quite different from those found in Pacaya-Samiria and some of them are quite new to science, e.g. ancient antwren, mishana tyrannulet, Allpahuayo antbird, grey-legged tinamou (November to March), rufous potoo, cinnamon-crested spadebill, pompadour cotinga.

• Cold lunch during the excursion on both days.

• After dinner, overnight stay at the «IIAP Investigation Center» of the Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve.