Peru, considered the second country with the most birds in the world, already has new places to take good photography.
Here this tour will take you to the best places to photograph in the southern part of Peru
DAY 1. LIMA- CUSCO CITY- SACRED VALLEY- OLLANTAYTAMBO TOWN
(9160 ft)
DAY 2 – SANTUARY OF HUMMINGBIRDS FULL DAY
DAY 3. OLLANTAYTAMBO- WAYQUECHA BIOLOGICAL STATION
( 9846 ft)
DAY 4. WAYQUECHA TO COCK OF THE ROC LODGE
(4921 ft)
DAY 5: COCK OF THE ROCK LOGDE FULL DAY
(1591 ft)
Day 6 COCK OF THE ROCK LODGE FULL DAY
DAY 7: COCK OF THE ROCK LODGE – MANU BIOLODGE( VILLA CARMEN BIOLOGICAL STATION)
DAY 8 : MANU BIOLODGE FULL DAY.
DAY 9. MANU BIOLOGDE FULL DAY.
DAY 10 -MANU BIOLODGE – CUSCO
Arriving from Lima to Cusco airport we will go to the Sacred Valley this will take like 2 hours driving, the hotel we will use has the endemic bearded mountaneer in flowers, from there we will be very close to Ensifera Camp or Sanctuary of Hummingbirds .
Overnight: Pakaritampu hotel.
Today we will spend the day is this place which is only 35 minutes from the hotel.
Species: giant hummingbird, green and white hummingbirds, black tailed trainbearer, tiryan metaltail, sparkling violetear ,shinning sunbeam, sword billed hummingbird ,white tufted sunbeam ( in season),white bellied woodstar and some other species.
They have a nice garden where we can make some good photos.
Overnight: Pakaritampu hotel
After the breakfast we have another opportunity to take advantage of the hotel garden or return to the Santuary of hummingbirds to get more images.
Then we head towards the town of Paucartambo for 3 hours and go up towards the Manu road to reach the Wayquecha station.
Wayquecha has hummingbird feeders and the species we have are goulds inca( sub species of the collared inca ),amethyst throated sunangel, Tyrian metaltail, shining sunbeam,violet throated starfronlet ,long tailed sylph and some other species and also they have feeders for other birds such as hooded mountain tanager,black faced brush finch, blue capped tanager.
In the morning some birds take a bath in a small place where the birds have places to perch and the species that visit it are golden collared tanager,scarlet bellied mountain tanager,hooded mountain tanager,grass green tanager,black thorated,moustached and masked flower piercing,blue capped tanager,rufous breated chat tyrant,rust and yellew tanager and some other birds.
Overnight: Wayquecha Biological Station
After breakfast we will go to another lodge but before arriving there ,we can stop at one of the new places where they have hummingbird feeders and tanager feeders and the species that visit them are versicolored barbet, spotted tanager, saffron crowned tanager, yellow bellied tanager, golden naped tanager, blue gray tanager, silver beaked tanager, orange bellied euphonia ,palm tanager and some others.
And the idea is also to see the Andean cock of the rock lek, this is a subspecies from southern Peru, spend the afternoon there after arriving at the lodge.
Overnight : Cock of the Rock Lodge
Today we can have some like seeing some species in the bird feeders of the lodge such as golden eared tanager and other cloudy forest hummingbirds, some very similar to those of northern Peru.
In the afternoon we can go up to this new place where the activity of tanagers is very good.
Another day to be able to use the garden and the hummingbird and bird feeders at the lodge or try again for the new place for tanagers and hummingbirds which is very good.
After breakfast we will head to this new lodge located at the foot of the mountain, they have bird feeders where you can see species such as blue throated piping guan, spix guan, purplish jay, violet jay, red capped cardinal, russet backed orioles, they are hoatzils leaving there easy to take photos as well.
And they also have hummingbird feeders to see some species of that area.
Today we will visit the place called Pico de Hoz about 20 minutes from the lodge, they have platforms to see for example, Amazonian antpitta, rusfous sided crakes, tinamous like Black capped, Cinereous, Little and the pecoral sparrow.
In the case of hummingbirds, they have many species similar to Tarapoto in northern Peru and the one that stands out is the white browed hermit, white bearded hermit, Pale tailed barbthroat.
After breakfast we will visit another place where there are some foothills and rainforest birds such as yellow bellied, blue necked, silver beaked, turquoise tanagers, yellow bellied, blue dacnis, purple honeycreeper, green honey creepers, lemon thorated barbet and some hummingbirds similar to the other place but they are species like buff tailed scyclebill, rufous crested coquette, blue fronted lancebill, koepckes hemits are easy to see here.
Today we will head back to Cusco and stop in the places we were photographing before , it is another great opportunity to get more images
Included in your trip :
Not Included
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