Manu Explorers is an ecological tourism company in the rainforest specializing in operating jungle tours in the Peruvian jungle. With us you will find different kind of trips to everywhere in the base Amazon. We offer a wide range of tours including expeditions, bird-watching, fishing, biking and rafting.

Our experience in the tourism industry has taught us that the satisfaction of our customers is paramount. We provide a wide range of programs so that you can always find something to suit your needs and interests. Our main objective is to make sure each of our customers has once-in-a-life-time experience - we do everything to make you feel satisfied. Hence, we offer both pre-designed and customized programs according to your interests.  We provide as much comfort as the terrain permits and all that you would expect of a premium tourist service. Most importantly, we are always happy to help anytime during your visit in our beautiful country.

What will you do with us? Explore the unspoilt area far from the hassle and bustle of your everyday life.  Our adventure trips take you across the highlands and lush cloud forest, and enter the mystic rain forest rich with varied wildlife. Come with us and let our experienced guides take you to see the authentic variety of wildlife. The jungle here is home to various species of monkeys, jaguars, pumas, more than one thousand of species of birds, colourful butterflies, and the wonderful Peruvian National Bird, Cock of the Rock.

We’ll sail in the unique oxbow lakes where we fish piranhas, watch macaw parrots, and make acquaintance with the endangered Giant otters. Here you will have the opportunity to camp along the river bank and cook the fish we catch during the day over campfire. Manu National Park is one of the few pristine areas in the world where you can fall in sleep to the sounds of the jungle at night.

Why Manu Explorers? Because here you will meet professional tour guides who have lived by the jungle of Madre de Dios all their lives.  The jungle is part of our life, and the core of our passion. We can lead you to the thick of the rainforest with the ease that only comes with having called the jungle home all our lives. You’ll also be impressed by out guides’ extensive knowledge on fauna and flora, gained through professional training as well as by living close with nature.

Let us show you the jungle the way we know it, and the way we love it.

Wilbert Camacho Guillen

Tour Guide and manager

INFORMATION ABOUT MANU NATIONAL PARK

Quite possible the only accessible piece of virgin rainforest left in the word Manu National Park is located in a beautiful and a completely unspoiled corner of southeaster of Peru . The area of the park encompasses parts of the Andean department of Cusco and the jungle department of Madre de Dios Jungle. Manu protects 18,811 sq km. of territory rich in flora and fauna species in a variety of habitats including high Andes, Cloud forest and low land tropical rain Forest.

This natural paradise is officially recognized by UNESCO as word heritage site. In 1977 they designated Manu as world Biosphere Reserve, because it contains the best existing example of Bio diversity in protected areas of rain forest, as well as endemic areas of the cloud forest. Manu is internationally acclaimed as one of the most biodiversity area on earth.
 
The majority of forest in the world have been altered by humans, fortunately Manu has remained intact and untouched by civilization, it is therefore possible to observe a variety of animals in their natural habitats as:
Giant Otters, Black Caiman, the majestic Jaguar, the estrange Spectacled Andean Bear, the Tapir,13 species of monkeys and more than one thousand species of birds, Manu also contains countless species of medical plants that the scientism are currently cataloguing.
 
A single hectare of forest in Manu can have up of 220 species of trees. Apart from wildlife, the journey into the park itself is spectacular. The trip is an adventure in itself.

Geographical Location:
The park is located in the provinces of Manu and Paucartambo (Departments of Madre de Dios and Cusco respectively), comprising lands on the eastern slopes of the Andes and on the Peruvian Amazon. The limits to the north are the watershed separating the catchments basins of Manu and de Amigos river; to the south the area where the road from Paucartambo to the north-west turns to Tres Cruces (71° 30'W, 13° 11'S); to the east the region on the left margin of the Alto Madre de Dios River to the Pilcopata River, Department of Cusco (71° 10'W, 12° 18'S); and to the west the watershed separating the catchments basins of the Manu and Camisea Rivers - also the limit between the Departments of Cusco and Madre de Dios (72° 22'W, 11° 45'S).

Intangible area, protection of the fauna and flora, and of the Andean oriental and Amazon scenic beauties, it embraces territories from the Andean puna and yunga in the department of Cusco to the low jungle in the department of Madre de Dios, furrowed by the Manu river, Alto Madre de Dios river and affluent.

Most of its extension is located in the area of low jungle, between the 200 and 400 meters above sea level (656 and 1,312.01 feet). The rivers of the wild area can be navigated in small crafts in any time of the year.