Crossing Borders Jungle Tour
3 days, 2 nights

DETAILED ITINERARY

DAY 1

• Pick-up from your hotel 7:30am to have breakfast in Leticia 

• Visit the Central Market Place of Leticia, where locals gather from surrounding indigenous communities to sell fresh fish and fruit from the region 

• Visit the Ethnographic Museum of Leticia to learn about the Yukuna, Tikuna y Huitoto tribes - see a small guided exhibit of their clothing and tools, traditionally used for cooking and hunting *closed on Sundays

• Additional activity during rainy season, from December to June: visit the port of Leticia to take a small boat on the Amazon River and literally be on top of the 3 borders where Colombia, Peru, and Brazil meet – you will be on the river surrounded by Leticia, Tabatinga, and Santa Rosa, Peru.  

• Taxi ride through the busy streets of Leticia, crossing the border from Colombia to Brazil to the city of Tabatinga, Brazil. Leticia and Tabatinga are similar, but you will quickly see notable differences, as in the signs of stores and restaurants which are in Portuguese and not in Spanish anymore.

• Have lunch in Tabatinga, a typical Brazilian meal

• After lunch, continue your taxi tour through Tabatinga, to see the Amazon River from a lookout point 

• 2:00pm - Return to the port of Leticia to take a larger speedboat 2 hours up the Amazon River to Puerto Nariño

• Arrive in the ecological town of Puerto Nariño and freshen up at your hotel for the night

• Get your boots ready for a jungle hike to visit Wochine Reserve, where you will see the pirarucu, the largest fish species in the Amazon, as well as caimans, dragonfish, and turtles


• Return to Puerto Nariño for dinner 

• Once night falls, enter the jungle for a night hike to look for insects, scorpions, tarantulas, poisonous frogs and if you get lucky, snakes.

• Spend the night in the Hotel (private rooms and bathrooms, no hot shower water)

 

DAY 2

• Breakfast in Puerto Nariño 

• Take a smaller, private boat on smaller rivers that branch out to the Amazon River to the indigenous community by Lake Tarapoto, while looking for birds and pink and gray dolphins on the way

• Enter Lake Tarapoto, finally reaching the indigenous community to meet your local guide

• Leave your things in the traditional cabin 

• From June to December dry season: go on a jungle hike in flat land to see the ceiba tree, the largest tree species in the Amazon and learn about the Tikuna legend associated with this unforgettable tree

• From December to June rainy season: canoe trip through flooded jungle to see the ceiba tree, the largest tree species in the Amazon and learn about the Tikuna legend associated with this unforgettable tree

• Return to your cabin to rest

• Go out by boat to Lake Tarapoto to learn traditional fishing techniques to fish piranhas, sardines and other fish (please know fishing is much easier during the dry season from June to December, and you may not catch any fish during the rainy season from December to June).

• Enjoy a refreshing swim in the lake and take in the beautiful sunset​

• Caiman safari when it gets dark of about 1 hour by boat to look for caimans’ yellow or red eyes and learn about this fascinating species

• Return to the community for dinner in a family home, cooked by mothers of the community

• Spend the night in the traditional cabin by Lake Tarapoto, in beds with mosquito nets (very simple accommodation, no electricity, shared bathroom). 

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DAY 3​

• Return to Puerto Nariño for breakfast

• Go out to over the Amazon River by boat to look for pink and gray dolphins in the wild

• Cross the official border between Colombia and Peru over to the indigenous community of San Antonio, Peru

• Meet the your local Peruvian indigenous guide and start your jungle hike to look for wild sloths

• Lunch cooked by mothers of the indigenous community 

• Return to Puerto Nariño to visit Alto del Aguila and see wild monkeys and macaws in the jungle

• End your tour with delicious homemade ice cream made from Amazonian fruits

• 3:30pm - take the speed boat back to Leticia, arriving at 5:30pm

• One of our coordinators will pick you up at the port of Leticia, and take you to the center of Leticia

• End of tour