This tour was amazing! Our guide, Alexis, is extremely knowledgeable and has a passion for the jungle and the creatures that inhabit it. It was truly a once in a lifetime experience for my husband and me.

Everything was as expected/described on this tour. We moved efficiently thru the Manu National Park and were lucky enough to have beautiful weather and even a thunder storm at night. Rustic accommodations but very clean and pretty much bug free (although there was a "cute" little tarantula in the shower... this was one of the spiders I had really wanted to see). We did not have much luck at the clay licks but the parrots and macaws were roosting in the trees above it. The big highlight (spotted by our boatman) was witnessing an anaconda killing it's prey (a caiman) in the river. Also got lucky to see giant river otters fishing and playing in the lake. Lots and lots of birds everywhere. Some meals were great and others just fuel to keep you going but you don't go on a tour like this to experience gourmet food. It's a great trip if you have the right expectations of what you will be experiencing (no hot water, WIFI only in the lodge, sleeping under a mosquito net, etc). I appreciated the fact that this is a small group tour (there were 7 on our trip). Peru is a beautiful country.

Well, it couldn’t have been much worse. The accommodations were terrible. Lots of holes in the screens, uncomfortable single beds for couples, thin walls between adjoining rooms and even those did not go all the way to the ceiling. Some walls were slats with quarter inch gaps in them that mosquitoes could easily fly through. Limited power, limited Wi-Fi and no hot water. Dim light bulbs, burned out light bulbs with no spares. The food was generally bland, plain and poor. No butter, no salt, no pepper. I finally got them to produce some salt on the fourth day. Our guide, while having excellent knowledge of flora and fauna, was terrible at giving wildlife locations using clock hand directions. There was no provision made for trash collection in the boat. When one of the clients asked what to do with her trash, the guide motioned to just put it on the floor of the boat. Of course the cookie wrapper just flew off. I realize I am imposing my US cultural norms of not throwing trash into the river on local customs. But I expect guides to have a higher ecological sense. The tour advertised unlimited pure water. But at the very first dinner, we ran out. I asked our guide if there was more and he said “that’s it.” They did get more water later that night, but by that time we were beginning our night walk. They also didn’t have enough tea for our group’s tour. A lot of the time Is traveling by vehicle or boat and you’re not looking at anything except landscape. Our ride back to Cuzco was the scariest six hours of my life. The driver drove like a maniac on the narrow cliffside roads. He narrowly missed another car coming in the opposite direction and our mirrors crashed into each other. He barely missed running down a small boy. He hit some plants that a man was carrying on his shoulders. On the plus side, we saw a Blunt snake, Cane toads, bats, macaws, parrots, an anaconda, caimans and giant otters.

Notre voyage à Manu a été exceptionnel ! Alexis est un super guide et est impressionnant par ses connaissances de la jungle. Le conducteur et le cuisinier aussi au top ! Encore merci pour cette expérience incroyable !

Het was een geweldige tocht! Hebben allemaal genoten van geweldige natuur, prachtige flora en fauna en het ontspannen varen met de boot door de jungle. Onvergetelijke ervaring! Overnachtingsplekken waren prima en het eten was top! Daarnaast nog geweldige begeleiding van onze gids Ricardo. Wat een kennis had hij, waar hij enthousiast over vertelde.