Tambopata Lodges
 
 

Rainforest Expeditions (est. 1989) operates three award winning Amazon lodges: Posada Amazonas, Refugio Amazonas, and Tambopata Research Center. Each Amazon lodge provides access to a unique set of ecotourism experiences in the jungle of southeastern Peru.

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Our packages include activities comprised of aspects of nature and culture of the Amazon rainforest. We offer a variety of special interest activities, tours and expeditions like Soft Adventure, Birdwatching expeditions, Family and more...

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News: Rainforest Expeditions wins the LATA award for customer service!

The World Travel Market is held annually as an opportunity for all sectors of the industry to network with travel organizations from throughout the world. This year the affair, referred to as "The leading global event for the travel industry", was held in London.  Rainforest Expeditions sent employee Milagros Saux to represent the company at the event.  On the second night of the event, she attended a party held by the Latin American Travel Association and was thrilled to receive RFE's award for Customer Service.  

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Amazon Undertaking - First ever SUP adventure in the Amazon

Rainforest Expeditions recently became the first and only company to offer standuppaddling (SUP) in the Amazon. To test the equipment and show staff the ropes, the company asked writer Shelby Stanger, expert paddler Mariko Strickland, and photographer Chase Olivier to make the first ever SUP adventure in the Amazon.

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Five Great Jungle Novels

Great Jungle Novels
by Kurt Holle

While browsing Amazon.com, I came across a booklist called Amazon 2011! I was disappointed to find utilitarian titles such as the Travellers Wildlife Guide of Peru and the Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon.
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Amazing Animal Photography

To celebrate our new photography workshops, Rainforest Expeditions hosted a photo contest calling for photographers of all abilities to send their best photo depicting "nature" as interpreted by the artist.
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Fabulous Floral Photography

To celebrate our new photography workshops, Rainforest Expeditions hosted a photo contest calling for photographers of all abilities to send their best photo depicting "nature" as interpreted by the artist.  The grand prize?  A 7 day/6 night trip (including airfare) to our lodges to participate in our new photography workshop.  
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Beautiful Bird Photography

To promote our new photography workshops, Rainforest Expeditions hosted a photo contest calling for photographers of all abilities from to send their best photo depicting nature as interpreted by the artist.  The grand prize?  A 7 day/6 night trip (including airfare) to our lodges to participate in our new photography workshop.
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Combining Science, Nature and Technology to Create Art in the Peruvian Amazon

Peru Photo Tours, Rainforest Expeditions, Cognisys and Linden Gledhill teamed up to explore the incredible biodiversity of the amazon rainforest and push the boundaries of insect photography through the use of high speed camera equipment.

A seven-hour boat ride took photographers Jeff Cremer and Linden Gledhill 150 kilometers up the Tambopata River where Rainforest Expeditions hosted them at the 18-room Tambopata Research Center (TRC). TRC is located in a half-hectare clearing on the uninhabited frontier of the Tambopata National reserve. It adjacent to the Bahuaja-Sonene National Park and 500 meters from the world’s largest macaw clay lick.

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What is a "Biodiversity Hotspot"?

What is a "Biodiversity Hotspot"?

By Alan Lee

Many readers will I am sure have heard that the Tambopata is part of a World Biodiversity Hotspot. But what actually is a hotspot? The simple answer is that Biodiversity hotspots are geographic areas that contain high levels of species diversity but are threatened with extinction.

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