Manu lodge, the only lodge offering all inclusive services within the Manu Park itself. All other trips offered in the Manu National Park are camping trips. A few other new lodges and camping sites are located well beyond the limits of the Manu National Park. Two park stations strictly control the access to this pristine area. Since there are no roads near or inside the protected Manu lowlands, the river is the only access. Only authorized tour and research boats are allowed to the interior of the Reserve.

The Manu Lodge is constructed entirely of fine mahogany cut from logs left on the beaches of the Manu by the annual January-March floods. The lodge is elevated on reinforced stilts and is divided into two communicating blocks. A and B. Block A is in three levels, a spacious lower level containing a bar, meeting area and a dining room/lounge for up to 44 people, a smaller second level containing two double rooms with a magnificent vista of the lake nearby, and a still smaller third level that features an observation room. Block B contains ten double rooms spaced along a wide, screened corridor/porch. The entire lodge, including both blocks and porches, is screened and accessible from outside through screened double doors. The kitchen, showers and latrines are located away from the main building in clean, comfortable buildings. We have outfitted the Manu Lodge with as many amenities as the Peruvian Government has allowed in the past 12 years
From the boat landing on the river bank, you walk 600 yards on a clear flat forest trail to reach the canoe landing from where we can paddle you to the secluded Manu Lodge. The Manu Lodge overlooks a 1.2-mile-long and 590 ft. wide oxbow lake, which is surrounded by huge, vine-festooned tropical trees.

Herons, kingfishers, hoatzins, monkeys and black caiman may be seen from a couple of lake piers or from a comfortable catamaran, and on the edge of the lake there is a mineral lick where rare birds such as Razor-billed Curassows and Piping Guans are often seen.

Manu Lodge is considered the best place in the tropics to see and photograph or film Giant River Otters. These two and a half, 70 pound-mustelid is a gregarious mammal that lives in small groups. A family of six to eight Giant Otters visits the lake every other
week and our clients may see them from within 50 ft. right in front of the Manu Lodge building without disturbing them. Using the lake riverbanks, or our lake piers and being quiet guarantees wonderful sightings of these large carnivores as they fish, feed their cubs, preen and play. We strictly forbid the use of canoes or catamarans to try to see the otters. Giant otters have successfully bred on several occasions near Manu Lodge.

After cruising on the lake you can explore many kilometers of marked trails near the lodge. These trails, which were designed in consultation with internationally known ecologists, wind trough the full mosaic of different forest types of the western Amazon, including tall floodplain forest, terra firma (never flooded) forest, stands of lush Heliconia species, sun dappled cane "Caña brava" and 7-meter-tall thickets of bamboo. Jaguars and ocelots frequent the trails too, though normally you see only their fresh tracks.A 75 meter-high ridge only a less than a hundred meters from the lake offers views of macaws, parakeets, hawks, toucans and scores of other species of tropica birds flying short and long distances over the forest. On a clear day, the lookout yields a view of the lake below and the distant snow-capped peaks of the Andes, a vista stretching more than two-hundred kilometers. No other lodge in South America simultaneously provides a pristine tropical lake in a protected wilderness and a view of the majestic Andes!. Using Manu Lodge as a base, you can travel by boat up or down river for comfortable day-trips or overnight camping trips to other lakes and concentrations of wildlife in the lower Manu region. Whether you stay at the lodge the entire time or explore other parts of Manu, our itineraries provide one of the finest jungle experiences available in Central and South America, if not the world.

An old oxbow lake within 15 minutes from Manu Lodge, presents large stands of dead Mauritia Palms, which make wonderful roosting and nesting sites for dozens of Gold and Yellow Macaws and Red-bellied Macaws. An elevated platform provides visitors with "next to stage" seats, as these colorful birds, play, preen and display while their bright plumage reflect the golden light of the setting tropical sun