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Tambopata & Puerto Maldonado aerial view

Tambopata & Puerto Maldonado, Peru

A short flight from Lima or Cusco, Puerto Maldonado is the river gateway to Tambopata, one of the most biodiverse corners of the Peruvian Amazon. From its jetties, boats travel the Madre de Dios and Tambopata rivers to lodges near oxbow lakes with giant otters, canopy walkways and the clay licks where hundreds of macaws gather at dawn.

Inkaterra Reserva Amazónica

An eco-luxury lodge of 35 Ese'eja-style thatched cabañas on the Madre de Dios River, in a 17,000-hectare private reserve with a canopy walkway 30 metres above the ground.

Inkaterra Hacienda Concepción

A former cacao and rubber plantation on the Madre de Dios River, 25 minutes by boat from Puerto Maldonado, with 25 cabañas on stilts and suites with private plunge pools.

Refugio Amazonas

A 32-room ecolodge in Brazil-nut forest on the Tambopata River, two hours from Puerto Maldonado, with rooms open to the rainforest and the Wired Amazon science programme.

Posada Amazonas

A community-run ecolodge on the Tambopata River, managed with the Ese Eja people of Infierno, with an exclusive macaw clay lick, a 42-metre canopy tower and giant otters nearby.

Tambopata Research Center

One of South America's most remote lodges, inside the Tambopata National Reserve facing Bahuaja-Sonene National Park, with 24 open-walled rooms and two great macaw clay licks nearby.

Ecolucerna Lodge Tambopata

A design-minded eco-lodge 26 kilometres downriver from Puerto Maldonado on the Madre de Dios, with river-view bungalows, hammock terraces, an Amazonian bistro and solar power.