DETAILED ITINERARY
WEEK 1: THE AMAZON
- Suggested hotel stay near Chicago ORD Airport (included in pricing)
- Depart Chicago ORD airport (tentative flight schedule)
- Includes airport stipends for breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Overnight in Iquitos hotel
- Hotel breakfast, load luggage
- Meet your Explorama guide, and transfer by boat to Explorama Lodge
- Lunch at Explorama
- Guided Rain Forest Walk
- Opening Ceremony
- Evening guided boat float
- Dinner and overnight at Explorama Lodge
- Breakfast
- Depart for ExplorNapo with luggage
- Guided boat float
- Lunch
- Blackwater Lake OR Ethnobotanical Garden (depending on group)
- Guided Night float
- Dinner and overnight at ExplorNapo Lodge
- Breakfast
- Ethnobotanical Garden OR Blackwater Lake(depending on group)
- Lunch
- Walk to Canopy walkways a full group
- Sampling (observations) on the ground and canopy
- Workshop measurements on the platform
- Downtime and dinner at ACTS
- Evening program: data entry & analysis game
- Bioluminescent forest hike
- Overnight at ACTS Field Station
- Breakfast
- Sunrise Canopy walkway (full group)
- Useful plants trail hike on the way back to ExlorNapo Lodge
- Lunch
- Visit Amazon Medical Project with Dr. Linnea, an American doctor
- Yagua community Amazon craft fair Optional student opportunity to share crafts from home
- Evening presentation: Life as an Amazon Doctor with Dr. Linnea
- Dinner and overnight at Explorama Lodge
- Breakfast
- Morning boat float
- School visit in rainforest village
- Lunch
- Intercultural Connection Projects with local Amazon community
- Designed by non-profit CONAPAC
- Evening group programming
- Dinner and overnight at Explorama Lodge
- Breakfast
- Bird watching
- Lunch
- Tropical aquarium
- Yagua Community visit
- Night hike
- Dinner and overnight at Explorama
- Breakfast and pack up
- Closing Ceremony
- Boat to Iquitos
- Visit Belen Market
- City Tour of Iquitos and visit the Indigenous Cultures Museum OR Amazon Forever BioPark Guided Program (white sand rainforest)
- Dinner in Iquitos
- Depart Iquitos for Lima
- Amazon only – depart for USA
- Peru Highlands extension – depart for Cusco
WEEK 2: PERU HIGHLANDS
For this optional extension of the trip you will meet the communities and experience the culture in the Sacred Valley on your way to one of the majestic city of Machu Picchu.
- Arrive in Cusco and transfer to hotel
- Explore the colonial city of Cusco in your free afternoon
- Lunch and dinner included
- Conquer the colorful mountain of Peru that is located at 5,035 meters above sea level.
- Conquer the natural wonder of Cusco
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner included
- Overnight in Cusco
- Experience the paradise of potatoes and try the most colorful potatoes of Pampachiri, the Potato Park community.
- Meet native Quechua people, Llamas, Alpacas, and get to see the Andean communities.
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner included
- Overnight in Urubamba – Sacred Valley
- Enjoy a walk to see the spectacular waterfall of Perolniyoc and the Inca site with an amazing view of the Sacred Valley.
- Discover the beautiful waterfall of the Sacred Valley of the Incas
- Breakfast, box lunch and dinner included
- Overnight in Ollantaytambo – Sacred Valley
- Climb up to see the biggest and unfinished temple of the Sun in the center of the Sacred Valley.of the Incas.
- Uncover the amazing fortress of Ollantaytambo Inca site.
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner included
- Overnight in Machu Picchu town
- Experience one of the Seven New Wonders of the World, Machu Picchu! Enjoy the guided tour while exploring the Ancient citadel of the Incas.
- Enjoy Machu Picchu “One of the New Seven Wonders of the World”.
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner included
- Overnight in Cusco
- Departure transfer to the airport to take your flight to Lima
- Bus/Van Transportation to Noblesville Middle School