Step into the adventure of Manu National Park: Peru's Amazone rainforest. We would like to take you there...
if you are looking for a quality learning experience in a pristine rainforest environment, choose to go to Manu with Pantiacolla!
PANTIACOLLA...
Welcome to Pantiacolla! We organize ecotours to Manu National Park in Peru, South America. Manu is considered by many to be the finest ecotourism destination in the entire Amazon basin. A world heritage site, it is considered the world´s most biodiverse national park, and possibly the best location, due to lack of hunting pressure, for viewing large animals, such as giant otters, black caiman, harpy eagles, jaguars, giant anteaters, and tapirs. Pantiacolla aims to inspire an understanding and appreciation for this unique wilderness area.
The tours most in demand are:
► Ecological Tour to Manu's Reserved Zone with fixed departure dates: it has three variants, of 5, 7, and 9-days, and gives you a very complete picture of Manu´s undisturbed rainforest.
►Manu: Cloud Forest & Pantiacolla Mountain Range: a 5-day programme, especially designed for the low season, to visit to Visit Manu's intriguing cloud forest and Pantiacolla Lodge's well-preserved lowland forest.
►Manu Lodging Tour: shows you Manu´s most interesting areas in a comfortable way.
►Spanish in Pantiacolla Lodge: you can both learn Spanish and rainforest ecology, and meet the real people of the rainforest, the Matsiguenka indians.
►Manu for Birdwatchers: you visit Manu´s best areas for birds, the Eastern Andes slope and Pantiacolla Lodge.
People often ask us why we should save the rain forests?
Pantiacolla believes that only those who have been moved by the wonder of our natural heritage can ever know the answer. Education is the key, Pantiacolla has a vision. ........ we aim to make a difference.
MANU.. a perspective.
Manu National Park was established in 1977 and in recognition of its uniqueness was designated a ''World Heritage Site” ten years later. Manu is internationally acclaimed as one of the most biodiverse areas on earth.
Approximately half the area of Switzerland, the Manu Biosphere is a complete ecosystem with protected watershed embracing Andean montane cloud forest, tropical lowland forest and the Alto Madre de Dios and Manu river drainage systems. The biosphere itself is subdivided into national park and two adjacent zones, one for tourism and the other for cultural subsistence. It is home to over 1000 species of birds, 15,000 species of plants, over 200 species of mammals, and untold numbers of insects, and within its heart remain yet uncontacted peoples.
Manu retains healthy populations of jaguar, tapir, anteater, black caiman, giant otter, and among the 13 species of monkey we find the unique pigmy marmoset, the smallest monkey in the world, and the nocturnal night monkey. Because of Manu's low human population and their continued use of traditional hunting techniques, the animals in the park show little fear of man and are more readily approachable than in many other rainforest locations. Manu, therefore, offers unparalleled animal watching opportunities.
Wildlife aside, however, the journey into the park itself is amazingly spectacular and not to be missed. Access to Manu is normally by road. The two day trip from Cusco to the entrance of the Manu Reserved Zone carries you over the Andes mountains to an elevation of 4000 m, past pre-inca ruins and down through the cloud forest on the eastern side of the Andes, and finally into lush, lowland rainforest. Roads remain largely unpaved and wind their way precariously past cascading waterfalls, deep gorges, and precipices. Manu is truly a complete experience.
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