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Parque Nacional Manu
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Traverse three climatic zones from rearing Andean mountains to mist-swathed cloud
forest on the lower slopes en route to the bowels of the jungle in Parque Nacional Manu (
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, the Amazon's best adventure. Manu has long been Peru's best-protected wil-
derness, brimming with opportunities to see fabled jungle creatures such as the anaconda,
tapir, thousands of feasting macaws festooning clay licks with their colors, and jaguar. In
this deep forest, tribespeople live as they have for centuries, with barely any contact with
the outside world.
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