Peru 5th to 22nd June 2002

Peru 2002 Itinerary

June 5th Fly to Lima from Heathrow.
June 6th Pacific coast (Pucusana), Pan American Highway & Pantanos de villa marsh
June 7th Flight to Cusco and Huacarpay lakes
June 8th Bus through Andean pass –Ajcanacu & eastern slope of the Andes. Camp at 2800 meters at Pillahuata
June 9th Drive through Cloud forest to Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge, near Union at 1600 meters
June 10th Cloud forest birding above lodge
June 11th Cock-of-the-Rock lek. Birding from 1500 meters to 800 meters - upper tropical zone forest. Amazonia Lodge
June 12th Tower platform
June 13th Trails
June 14th Canoe down Alto Madre de Dios river and the Manu River to Manu Wildlife Centre
June 15th Oxbow lake and bamboo trail
June 16th Tower platform, trails, platform @Manu safaris/oxbow lake
June 17th Bamboo trail/Parrot lick. Tapir lick
June 18th Tapir lick and trails
June 19th Platform @Manu safaris, oxbow lake and trails
June 20th Boca Manu flight to Cusco. Museum / Sacsayhuaman & Pisac market.
June 21st Train to Machu Pichu
June 22nd Flight to Lima. Birding around Miraflores. Flight to Heathrow


Trip Participants

Chris & Annie Abrams
Geoff & Katriona Burton
Martin Coath
Mike & Olga Gould
Ian Hodgson & Christine Allison
Jeff & Heather Larkin
Terry Laws
John Puckett & Hazel Ryan


Acknowledgements

Thank you to Martin for yet another amusing account of our visit. The species list was compiled by our intrepid list keeper – Heather – an enormous task as the number of species of birds we encountered was phenomenal! Ian has done a wonderful job on commenting on the species of birds we saw with additional contributions from Jeff and Chris who compiled this report. Christine’s wonderful illustrations remind us of the scenes we experienced and along with Annie’s photographs add a great deal of variety to the report. This report together with Mike’s video hopefully provides us all with a varied visual reminder of our visit to Peru. Thanks are also due to our ground agents Xavier Munoz of Neblina Forest and his guide Francisco Enriquez (Pancho). Through their links with Inka Natura Travel we had the expertise of Carlos Seminario, whose knowledge of rainforest flora and fauna was exemplary. Everyone on the trip has contributed something, to either this account or the trip as a whole and due to this we all have a wonderful memory of a fantastic trip so THANK YOU TO ALL PARTICIPANTS!