Yellow Faced Parrotlet-Purple Backed Sunbean
This itinerary covers a wide range of ecosystems in the Amazon and lowland areas along the Marañón River, including tropical forests, cloud forests, highland dry forests, and coastal dry forests in Peru, among others. We offer our clients the flexibility to choose the region they want to explore or the bird species they want to observe or photograph. Our team will organize their trip in the best possible way, with an itinerary of at least 5 days to ensure an enriching experience.
Arriveing Day
We arrived in Tarapoto from the Lima airport in 1 hour and 20 minutes. We were picked up at the airport and transferred to the hotel.
Hotel La joya-leymebamba
Day 1
We explore the forests in the Atuen valley in search of species such as the gray-breasted mountain toucan, northern mountain cacique, red-capped tanager, buff-throated tree-hunter or rufous-backed tree-hunter, among others. We observe good flocks of birds in this area. In the afternoon, we move to Abra Barro Negro to look for birds such as the reddish-mantled softtail, white-chinned thistletail, copper metaltail, blackish tapaculo and other species.
Hotel La joya-leymebamba.
Day 2
We start in the lower part of the Marañon Valley, where we look for the Yellow-faced Parakeet and the Peruvian Pigeon. We continue to Hacienda El Limón, where we have the opportunity to see very special birds, such as the buff-flanged Inca finch, the gray-winged Inca finch, the brown hawthorn and the Marañón thrush. Then we continue to Celendín.
Hotel Villa Madrid-Celendin.
Day 3
On our way to Cajamarca, we make a stop to look for Rufous antpitta (Cajamarca form) and continue to Cruz Conga to look for White-tailed tyrant Shrike, Rufous webbed bush tyrant, Rufous-eared finch, Jelki's chat tyrant and other species. In the afternoon, we head to Rio Chonta and spend some time observing the Gray-bellied Kite.
Hotel El Mirador-cajamarca.
Day 4
We spend more time in the gray-bellied kite area and also look for other birds such as the black-crested tyrant, black metaltail, rusty crow-tail, among others. Then, we moved to Huamachuco, a long drive with a stop to observe the great spinetail.
Hotel Santa Maria-Huamachuco.
Day 5
We leave early in the morning by car to El Molino. The road can be rough, so it could take up to 3 hours from Huamachuco. We look for the purple-backed sunbeam and spot some puna birds on the way back before continuing on to Trujillo.
Hotel Due-Trujillo.
Day 6
We leave early in the morning to Sinsicap in search of the Red-bellied Colina, the Unicolor Tapaculo, the Piura Chat-Tyrant, among others. Then, we continue driving to Chiclayo, making a stop in the Rafan area, which is conducive to the Peruvian plant cutter, and also visit Puerto Eten to observe the Peruvian Tern, Black-headed Gull and other seabirds.
Inti Hotel-chiclayo.
