WanderList: Rekindle in the Amazon

July 3rd, 2012 • BY

Tambopata Research Center is not easy to get to: It requires a flight over the Andes from Lima, a three-hour drive through the jungle and a four-hour boat ride upriver. But its remoteness is part of the appeal. It is one of the most remote rainforest lodges in all of South America and, thus, it’s about as far from civilization—and stress—as one can get.

Researchers base out of the Center’s 18-room, wood-and-clay, open-air eco-lodge deep in the Amazon to study the abundant rainforest wildlife. Of note here is The Macaw Project, which tracks the habits and flight patterns of these color-saturated birds via satellite.

Guests can also dig into the scientific scene via researcher lectures, Q&A dinner sessions, and wildlife excursions with naturalist guides. Visitors can also play the scientist themselves, searching for parrots, caimans, wild cats, plus spider, howler, and dusky titi monkeys in a variety of rainforest landscapes, including bamboo stands, palm forests, and riverine forest habitats straight out of Avatar.

Okay, so there’s no running hot water, guests sleep with mosquito nets, and the generator is turned on only once a day to charge batteries, but this experience is less about the luxury and more about the wonder of the remote rainforest. The best part is, arguably, the Amazon’s largest-known clay lick (which inspired a National Geographic cover story) where hundreds of colorful parrots, macaws, and parakeets gather a mere 500 yards from the rustic lodge ($180 per person per night, all inclusive, via Rainforest Expeditions).

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Kate Siber has worked as a pastry cook, a small-time farmer, a ski-rental tech, and a thankless-accounting drone, among other distinctive vocations, but the career she tried on and kept was writing. For the last eight years, Siber, a freelance writer and correspondent for Outside magazine, has traipsed the globe in search of stories, shooting blowguns with Amazonian tribes in Ecuador, tracking rhinos in South Africa, and diving with— More about this author →