On the edge of the Tambopata Reserve Zone, 58km up the Tambopata river from the town of Puerto Maldonado, is the Explorer's Inn, a tourist lodge which is also one of the main research centres for scientific work in the Amazon basin.
The Explorer's Inn, built in 1977, is a complex of seven separated thatched roof bungalows constructed around a central hexagonal building. It has 30 large screen protected twin bed rooms. Each room with its private bath. The design, though modern and comfortable, retains a typical jungle style. All lighting is by candle light, to retain a natural atmosphere, with exception of the dining area which can be illuminated by solar energy if so wished. An excellent network of approx. 30 kms of well marked trails depart from the lodge in several directions linking it with the TRZ's main attractions including several ox-bow lakes.
Biologist and/or ecologists of all nationalities form part of the Explorer's Inn permanent staff working as specialized guides for the visitors. The lodge provides its guests with a small reference library to enable them to learn more about what they see. There is a small garden with medicinal plants on the lodge's grounds. A solar energy powered radio system links the lodge with its headquarters in Lima and Puerto Maldonado.
The Explorer's Inn gives its visitors a superb opportunity to learn about the Amazon rainforest and the importance of its conservation in a magic and natural setting. Its informal and warm atmosphere is ideal for explorers, wildlife and bird watchers, photographers, researchers, students and adventurers, or just people who enjoy nature at its best and want to escape the modern world for a while.
The Explorer's Inn is also the gateway to the "Colpa de Guacamayos" Macaw Clay Lick located further up the Tambopata river. The National Geographic Magazine published an article of it in 1995
Peruvian Safaris built the Explorer's Inn in 1975 - 76 and started to receive guests in 1976 and will this year complete 22 years of operating in ecotourism in what is now the Tambopata Candamo Reserved Zone in Puerto Maldonado, Peru. It is a complex of seven separated thatched roof bungalows constructed around a central hexagonal building. It has 30 large screen protected twin bed rooms. Each room has its own private bath. The design, though modern and comfortable, retains a typical jungle style. All lighting is by candle light, to retain a natural atmosphere, with exception of the dining area which can be illuminated by solar energy if so wished. An excellent network of approx. 30 km of well marked trails depart from the lodge in several directions linking it with the TRZ's main attractions including several ox-bow lakes.
Biologists and/or ecologists of all nationalities form part of the Explorer's Inn permanent staff, working as specialized guides for the visitors. The lodge provides its guests with a small reference library to enable them to learn more about what they see. There is a small garden with medicinal plants on the lodge's grounds. A solar energy powered radio system links the lodge with its headquarters in Lima and Puerto Maldonado.
In a magic and natural setting, the Inn gives its visitors a superb opportunity to learn about the Amazon rainforest and the importance of its conservation . Its informal and warm atmosphere is ideal for explorers, wildlife and birdwatchers, photographers, researchers, students and adventurers, or just people who enjoy nature at its best and want to escape modern world for a while. The TRZ is not only the richest, most diverse biological community per hectare known on earth, but it also represents a unique experiment in cooperation where research, tourism and rainforest conservation are being combined to the mutual benefit of all involved and for tomorrow's generations.
The Explorer's Inn is also the gateway to the "Colpa de Guacamayos" Macaw Clay Lick located further up the Tambopata River, which was featured in National Geographic's magazine January 1994 issue.
Peruvian Safaris and the Explorer's Inn are mentioned in several travel guides such as the South American Handbook and the Lonely Planet, and are also mentioned in many books about the Amazon rainforest such as the Flight of the Condor, published by the BBC, London; An Annotated Checklist of Peruvian Birds by Ted Parker; Rainforests by James L. Castner; Reporte Tambopata, with the abstracts of research done around Explorer's Inn, edited by the Peruvian Agrarian University with funds from Conservation International and TReeS; Urwald Pfade (Jungle Trails) in German written by Angelika Hofer a former Resident Naturalist with photos from Guenther Zissler, to name a few.
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Most European an American airlines arrive in Lima's international airport, from where several local airlines fly to Cusco from where it is only 30 additional jet flight minutes to get to the 3,800 meter long new runway of Puerto Maldonado's brand new and modern air terminal. Guests are received at the airport and transported by land and river to the Explorer's Inn escorted by one of PS's staff.
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