Stay 90 feet above the Peruvian Amazon

Posted by Staff in Luxury Monday, Peru, Travel News

For more than 30 years, Inkaterra Reserva Amazonica has served as the innovator and remained the only true luxury rainforest lodge in the Peruvian Amazon. Bringing a thrilling new experience to guests, Inkaterra has constructed a Canopy Tree House perched 90 feet above the rainforest floor which provides a new sky-high perspective to the 29,000-acre private reserve it currently protects.

Meant to complement a stay in one of Inkaterra Reserva Amazonica’s existing 35 cabañas, the Canopy Tree House is outfitted with two single beds, wash basin, limited electricity and a portable toilet. Its walls are created out of wood and removable mesh screens to provide natural light and 360-degree vistas of the surrounding flora and fauna. During the day, orchids, hummingbirds, toucans, monkeys and other wildlife are a mere arm’s length away; while at dusk, nocturnal species come to life and provide for exciting evening excursions and stargazing along Inkaterra’s hanging 1,130-foot-long Canopy Walkway.

Guests staying in the Canopy Tree house can rely on a dedicated Canopy Butler to arrange and oversee all excursions and special requests. The butler is at-hand on a nearby tower and is reachable by walkie-talkie.

A stay in the Canopy Tree House includes lodge transfers; sundowners with chilled sparkling wine or Pisco Sours; a Canopy Bar stocked with water, soft drinks and beer; light dinner and breakfast; a private bilingual interpreter/guide; and binoculars and flashlights for excursions along the Canopy Walkway and the recently added Anaconda Walk. If sleeping in the middle of the nocturnal action becomes too much to handle, guests can descend to pre-arranged ground-level accommodations. Rates start at US$300 per person per night (double occupancy), and are applied as a supplement to the regular program rates.

For more information, visit www.inkaterra.com

Inkaterra Reserva Amazonica

Posted by Staff in Eco Saturdays, Peru, South America

Inkaterra Reserva Amazonica is located in a private reserve adjacent to the Tambopata National Reserve in Peru’s southern rainforest region.  The eco-friendly hotel is a beautiful melding of nature and comfort.  For nature lovers there are rainforest trails, an anaconda walk, a butterfly house  and a treetop canopy bridge….then for those in need of relaxation, Reserva Amazonica has a spa overlooking the Madre de Dos Rios River and offers treatments using ingredients found naturally in the Amazon.

Accommodations consist of 30 private thatched roof cabanas, all with: screened porch & hammocks, tropical ceiling fans, warm water showers, low–impact electricity, organic bath products, robes & slippers. Rates range from $250 to $500 per night for two and include all transfers, meals and excursion.  The large (almost 30k acres) ecological reserve is only a 25 minute flight away from the city of Cusco.  For more information click here.