• Availability: Available now
  • Group size: 2-10
  • Tour Type: Peruvian jungle trip in Manu
  • Max. Elevation: 3700 meters above sea level

Manu Amazon Tour and Ayahuasca 4D/3N

865 USD Per person

Manu Amazon Tour and Ayahuasca 4D/3N

This Manu tour ayahuasca is designed to show you the most beautiful and interesting aspects of the cultural zone of one of the most remote jungles on the planet the Manu National Park. On this Manu Amazon tour you will be able to observe many varieties of birds, monkeys, insects, amphibians, reptiles and some mammals if you are lucky. You will see a huge variety of plants and trees of all sizes.

This tour to the Manu starts in Cusco, which is also the center to start your trip to Machu Picchu, so you can have a perfect chance to visit Machu Picchu, a piece of the Amazon jungle with this Manu Amazon tour and Ayahuasca Experience.

We will combine your Manu tour with 1 Ayahuasca ceremony, either on the first night or the last night of your tour. In addition to being operators of the Inca Trail, Machu Picchu and Manu Tours, we are dedicated to performing ceremonies and retreats with Grandma Ayahuasca. Our brands are IncaGo Expeditions and Ikaro Ayahuasca Retreat.

Highlights of our 4-day Manu Tour

  • Our guides are specialists in the observation of flora, birds and animals in Manu.
  • Our lodges are located in the middle of the forest and have all the comforts.
  • Our food is served buffet style.
  • We will provide an specific diet for your Ayahuasca ceremony.
  • At least one day our chef will surprise you with a typical meal from the Manu jungle.
  • We have the best and most passionate team of workers.
  • Be part of our social and environmental projects.
  • With our unique itinerary combine the Manu Tour and Ayahuasca ceremony.
  • In addition to all the above, we prepare food for our people and team with 100% organic veggies purchased from local producers.
  • Our Manu Amazon Tour and Ayahuasca Ceremony has a fair and cheap price compared to other operators.

Trip Overview of our 4-day Manu Tour

  • Tour Type: Manu Jungle Tour
  • Good for: Those in moderate shape or better
  • Difficulty: Moderate
  • Season: All year around
  • Consideration: Book ahead of time

DAY 1: Cusco – Paucartambo – Cloud Forest – Cosñipata.

  • Elevation: From 3300 to 550 meters
  • First day Distance: 220 km / 136.702 miles (12 hours)
  • Considered: You Will make many stops to spot birds and monkeys
  • Meals:Breakfast, snacks, lunch, dinner! All served as buffet
  • Weather:Cold in the beginning and then hot and humid

This 4-day tour to Manu begins with a pick-up from your hotel in Cusco at 5 am. Then you will head for 1 hour and 45 minutes to Ninamarca, a small pre-Inca archaeological site. Here the guide will give you an explanation about the place and show you interesting aspects of the Andes, before entering the Amazon. 20 minutes later you will arrive at the town of Paucartambo where you will have breakfast and visit its small main square, which is full of sculptures of dancers since this is one of the towns with the most fervent festivities in honor of the Virgin Carmen.

Then you will head for 40 more minutes to the highest point of the tour. This point is called Tres Cruces de Oro and has one of the most beautiful sunrises on the planet. At this point you will stop to observe the beginning of the Amazon rainforest from the deer trail lookout and you will officially register to enter the park and explore the Manu tour.

Afterwards you will descend for about 30 minutes to a specific place on the road, from where you will take a walking tour and observe birds such as the Andean Quetzal, the cock-of-the-rock, the watchmaker, eagles, monkeys and perhaps a spectacled bear. During this entire tour, the guide will show you the birds with binoculars and a telescope, in addition to explaining the behavior of each bird you can observe. After this tour of approximately 2 hours, you will have a picnic lunch at a place called Rocotal.

After lunch you will continue descending taking short walks to observe more birds in the high jungle area of ​​the Manu tour. Around 5 pm you will arrive at the first lodge of the tour. Your guide will show you to your rooms and after a well-deserved rest and shower, your cook will prepare a happy hour and buffet dinner.

** This first day of the Manu tour will be primarily bird watching along the way.

DAY 2: Cosñipata – Atalaya – Machuwasi.

  • Elevation: From 550 meters to 350 meters
  • Considered: You will do a lot hiking into the forest
  • Meals:Breakfast, snacks, lunch, dinner! All served as buffet
  • Weather:Hot and humid

You will be woken up by your tour guide at 5 am in the morning in order to explore the Manu jungle tour. You guide will offer you an organic coffee to you wake up in a better way. Once you are ready your cook will serve you a yummy buffet breakfast. You will be driven for 45 minutes to a place called Inkamazonia, where you will be able to spot with your guide more than 10 species of Manu tour hummingbirds in only 20 minutes, you can also see in that place tanagers, toucans, the king vulture, tarantulas and emerald boa.

Then you will continue 30 minutes to the Atalaya port to navigate for 20 minutes the Alto Madre de Dios River in order to go the lodge. Then you will ride the boat for 30 minutes to go to the oxbow lake Machuwasi where you will hike to watch capybaras, alligators, hoatzins and Camungos (Anhima cornuta). After exploring this Manu lake, you will come back to the lodge to have a well deserved buffet lunch.

After some rest, in the afternoon you will go to explore the jungle of the Ceiba, this jungle will give you the chance to spots some birds like the Paujil (Crax globulosa), and and see a huge 400-year-old ceiba tree; these trees are known as the giants from the Amazon Forest, because they can reach up to 60 meters. Exploring this jungle your guide will also talk and explain you about the amazing Manu jungle biosphere and the importance of these forest for the entire planet.

To end your second day exploring the Manu tour You cook will prepare a delicious happy hour and a buffet dinner. To do some digestion you will do a 45 minutes hike at night to spot some snakes, frogs and tarantulas.

** This Manu tour on its second day will immerse you into the deep amazon jungle of the cultural zone of the national park.

DAY 3: Atalaya – Parrot clay lick – Ayahuasca Ceremony.

  • Elevation: From 350 meters to 550 meters
  • Considered: Ayahuasca ceremony in the Manu jungle
  • Meals:Breakfast, snacks, lunch! All served as buffet
  • Weather:Hot and humid

To start the Manu Amazon tour, you will be woken up by your guide very early so you will have the chance to observe a colorful spectacle. You will be on the motor boat for 30 minutes until you arrive to the parrot clay lick. This salty cliff receives tens of parrots every day, of course as parrots gather there to eat salt their predators like eagles will be close.  Then you will come back to the lodge to have a delicious breakfast. You will explore the train of the lodge, to try to see some animals and birds you may miss on the first days in the Manu rainforest tour.

After lunch you will be transported 20 minutes by boat and then 1 hour by car to Patria, San Fernando where we have our lodge in order to perform your Ayahuasca ceremony in the Manu tour. You will have a session with our shamans to talk about the ceremony and get many insides about it. You will have time to focus on your intentions and meditate before your Ayahuasca ceremony.

The Ayahuasca ceremony will start at 7 pm and will last for 4 to 5 hours, the ceremony is carried our by our shaman who is playing instruments and chanting Ikaros during the ceremony. Also is going to be with you a coordinator who is going to be all the time helping the patience during the Ayahuasca ceremony.

** This Manu tour and Ayahuasca ceremony gives you a perfect chance to explore the Amazon Forest and experience its millennial medicine.

DAY 4: Cosñipata – Paucartambo – Cusco.

  • Elevation: From 350 meters to 3350 meters
  • Considered: Ayahuasca ceremony interpretation
  • Meals:Breakfast, snacks, lunch! All served as buffet
  • Weather:Hot and humid

In the morning you will have a very delicious and nutritious breakfast to recover energies after the Ayahuasca ceremony in Manu. You will have a meeting with the shaman to do the integration and interpretation of the experience and visual you had during the ceremony. Later you will go to the river to do a flowering bath in order to clean all low vibrating energy.

This Manu rainforest tour and Ayahuasca ceremony will finish with a amazon food cooking class, your chef will teach you how to cook a very typical dish from the Peruvian Amazon. The chef may teach you to prepare a Pacamoto, Juane, Tacacho, Palmito, Chapu and many other things, it will be a surprise.

** 4 days exploring the Manu Amazon and having an Ayahuasca ceremony.

Included on the Manu Amazon tour 4D/3N

  • Van transport from Cusco to Manu Park to Cusco.
  • Motor boat ride for all excursions in the Manu tour.
  • Entry ticket to the cultural zone of Manu Park.
  • 3 buffet breakfasts, 4 buffet lunches and 3 buffet dinners (all food restrictions and requirements available).
  • If you are only doing the 4-day Manu Tour, the menu will include a meat diet. However, if you are doing the Manu Tour with an Ayahuasca ceremony included, we will provide you with a vegetarian and protein-rich diet menu.
  • 1 Ayahuasca ceremony
  • Water as much as you need.
  • Specialist jungle tour guide equipped with binoculars and telescope.
  • Rubber boots to explore the Manu jungle tour.
  • Amazon food cooking class in our lodge.
  • 3 nights of lodge

Duffels bags to pack essentials things you will need on the 4-day Amazon tour.

Not included on the Manu Amazon tour

  • First breakfast
  • Last dinner
  • Sodas and alcoholic drinks
  • Tips
  • Souvenirs

Prices

We are ready to do this amazing journey to the Manu Amazon tour and Ayahuasca ceremony with you and your loved ones.

Group Price (2025):

  • 865 USD per person

If you are more than 2 people, ask for our special offers

Private Tour:

Private tours are available and priced by party size.

  • 2 Tourist: USD 915 per person
  • 3 Tourist: USD 850 per person
  • 4 Tourist: USD 800 per person
  • 5 Tourist: USD 750 per person
  • 6 Tourist: USD 700 per person
  • 7 Tourist: USD 650 per person
  • 8 or more Tourist: $600 per person

Please send everything to info@incagoexpeditions.com

Packing list

We suggest you to carry lightweight daypack that the is key to feel comfortable during the Manu jungle tour.

Essentials:

  • Original Passport,
  • Immigration Card (given on the plane as you enter Peru)
  • Bug spray; 100 DEET
  • Good daypack
  • Water storage: Water reservoir like camelbacks is encouraged – but enough for at least 2-3 liters.
  • Comfortable hiking shoes (lightweight with good soles)
  • We provide wellington boots

For Your Duffel: we will carry up to 7 kg of your personal items

  • 04 long-sleeved shirts: (at least for the days you will be in the excursion and avoid black colors as they attract easily the flies and mosquitoes)
  • 03 tank top, for the nights as there is not air conditioning but there is mosquito nets in the beds.
  • 02 quick dry full-length pants
  • 05 Socks: you should have comfortable hiking style socks that are mid to long length.
  • Sunhat
  • Rain jacket and plastic poncho
  • Fleece
  • Rain jacket
  • Camera
  • Power bank
  • Headlamp
  • Binoculars
  • Swimming suit
  • Flip flops or sandals
  • Music (iPhone)
  • Hand sanitizer
  • Extra Money for Souvenirs, Drinks & Tips
  • Personal medication
  • Sunscreen
  • Face Wipes: the humidity will cause you to sweat
  • Deodorant, you will use more than normal due to the sweat
  • Ziplock or resealable plastic storage bags
  • Anti-Itch Cream

Journey Info

Arriving to Cusco

The airport in Cusco at the present time is only for domestic flights, so all international travelers by plane must disembark in Lima and go through Customs. Even if your flight to Cusco is the same day by the same airline carrier, you must grab your bags in Lima and then check them back in.

The best way to arrive to Cusco is by air and there are several options in airlines. LATAM tends to be the most expensive, but has the most options and flights.

Expect delays or flight cancellations; due to the high altitude of the andes, it tends to be difficult to land and any weather inconvenience will stop air traffic.

Bus travel is always available and while the trip can be long, especially from Lima, the buses company such as Cruz del Sur or Oltursa are very well maintained and comfortable; this option is strongly encouraged if coming from a city closer to Cusco like Arequipa or Puno.

Luggage Storage

Any extra luggage you have with you, can be left safely in Cusco at either your hotel or with us at the Incas Path deposit while you enjoy your tour: We will grab the extra luggage from you the morning of your tour and return once you are back in Cusco.

Make sure your suitcase have some kind of identification on them so they are easy to locate. 

Weather

Of course, weather is unpredictable. Typically, the dry season in the Manu National Park is from April through October, but this does not stop rain from falling in June or the sun from coming out in December, just be prepared; no matter what month you are doing the Manu jungle trip, please make sure that you have rain gear that includes a waterproof jacket, pants and plastic ponchos.

Travel Insurance

To protect your journey investment, we highly recommend the purchase of travel insurance; acquiring travel insurance before you leave home, is strongly encouraged and very easy.

These are the most used vaccines to travel to the Jungle

In this post we cite the vaccines to travel to the Peruvian jungle, according to the activity that the traveler will perform in these jungle areas. In addition, the information was consulted from important sources such as the websites of the Ministry of Health of Peru and also of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States. Keep informing yourself!

Although at the Jorge Chavez Airport you will not be asked about your vaccination status; in some countries they do require a vaccination certificate, therefore it is better to be prevented and to inform yourself in the authorized International Vaccination Center of your country about what you should apply before traveling.

Remember that vaccines avoid possible infectious problems during the trip and also to keep your immunizations up to date.

What animal could infect it in the jungle?

Well, mosquitoes are the bearers of the fearsome diseases causing deaths on the planet. We are talking about insect bites infected with Malaria, Yellow Fever and even Dengue.

It is probably the most dangerous animal in the Amazon rainforest, even more so than piranhas, anacondas or fierce jaguars.

Without vaccination even the bite of an infected mosquito could ruin your vacation.

What do the authorities tell us about getting vaccinated?

According to the website of the Ministry of Health of Peru (MINSA), the risks of contracting Malaria is latent in many areas of Peru, with the exception of the departments of Arequipa, Moquegua, Puno, Tacna and Lima in its surroundings, nor in the coastal area South of Lima, also in the high tourist areas: Cuzco, Machu Pichu and Lake Titicaca. Likewise, Puerto Maldonado and the Manu National Park and other endemic geographical areas of Peru are mentioned as a risk zone.

If you travel to the Peruvian jungle it is better to consult the doctor who keeps your health history, at least 4 weeks before making the trip. So that the doctor explains you about the type of vaccine that you should apply and with enough anticipation for them to take effect in the body.

In the case of the Peruvian Ministry of Health, the Yellow Fever vaccine and Malaria prophylaxis in risk areas is recommended.

On the other hand, on the website of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States (or CDC), it recommends to travelers that they will visit Peru, some important vaccines depending on particular cases.

For example, considering the type of tourism to be made, travel time or direct contact with animals or people due to visits for study or scientific purposes.

These are the vaccines to travel to the marvelous Manu cultural zone 

Under this order of ideas, these are the vaccines referred by the CDC:

Hepatitis A: Vaccination is recommended to all travelers to Peru.

Hepatitis B: Vaccination is recommended to all people traveling to Peru, especially those who may have exposure to blood or body fluids through the granting or receipt of medical care, drug injections, tattoos or sexual contact with the local population.

Typhoid Fever: Vaccination is recommended to all visitors to tropical areas of South America. Especially for those who remain in rural areas where exposure could occur due to the consumption of contaminated food or water.

Yellow Fever: The vaccine against this viral infection is highly recommended for trips to the Amazon and the southern Amazon basin. The vaccination should be administered at least 10 days before your arrival and at 10-year intervals, if you decide to stay.

Rabies: Vaccination is only recommended for individuals with a higher risk of exposure in the performance of their work, which often develops for prolonged periods in areas considered high risk for this disease.

Let us mention the case of veterinarians or wildlife researchers, whose occupation requires them to have direct contact with bats, dogs, stray cats, or other mammals.

Where to get vaccinated in Lima?

The International Vaccination Center, located in the city of Lima, Avenida del ejército, block 17, San Isidro district.