Amazon Basin
Manu Tented Camp
Manu Tented Camp lies just across the Manu River from the largest and most beautiful of Manu’s lakes.
It features spacious double occupancy, spacious tents with hinged doors and wooden floors. Each tent is fully screened, with a floor raised on wooden stilts to provide maximum ventilation, coolness and protection from flooding and insects. Each of the extra-long twin beds has a mosquito net, and a palm thatch roof completes the structure.
Manu Tented Camp also features an elevated, screened dining room with a wooden floor and a separate complex of shared hot-water showers and flush toilets. This is the most basic accommodation in the Manu Reserve but is located in one of the most important wildlife hotspots where there are frequent sightings of primates, giant otters and even jaguars. Staying there provides a visitor with a very raw and memorable rainforest experience.
Facilities
The tented camp is basic due to its remote location, but has private walk-in tents, shared camp toilets and hot water showers. All the beds have mosquito nets.
Local Wildlife
Explore Cocha Salvador (a cocha is an oxbow lake) where excursions by boat often involve sightings of giant otter, black caiman, various macaws and parrots, and sometimes tapir and jaguar. All of 13 monkey species are found in the surrounding forest and sightings of up to 9 of these species are common.
John Melton
Area Specialist
Try to time a visit between May and October for the best weather and birdwatching. Birds are on territory from August and are easier to locate. This is the driest season and between July and September the chance of finding jaguars, tapirs and large caiman increases.
If you have any questions regarding our Peru tours, please feel free to contact me on +44 (0)1803 866965
Two jaguars in a day! Giant otter baby. Six species of primate and over 75 species of bird.
We had amazing sightings of wildlife at Manu Wildlife Centre and in Manu National Park from the boat.
We had an amazing time and loved all aspects of the tour, the local people, food and wildlife. We wish we had longer and would recommend doing Lima first to get over the travel (jet lag and altitude, but we appreciate that had to happen with tour length. We were really surprised at the lack of tourists – we were the only people at Romero and Manu Wildlife Centre and it is concerning to hear how quiet these places are since covid. We would recommend Peru to anyone wanting to see wildlife and culture!
Two weeks before [the winter solstice in June] they celebrate in Cuzco every day, with parades, music and dancing. We loved seeing all these celebrations and would definitely recommend this time of year to visit.
