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(mating ground) for cocks-of-the-rocks. This lodge offers exceptional cloud-forest
bird-watching at 1600m elevation. The owners claim you can get photos of male cocks-
of-the-rock displaying about 7m from your camera. The InkaNatura-owned lodge has a
restaurant and 12 rustic double cabins with private bathrooms and hot water. Rates include
round-trip transportation from Cuzco, which takes on average eight hours (with points-of-
interest stops).
Rainforest Lodge $$
Offline map
( 084-50-7871;
www.bonanzatoursperu.com
; Suecia 343, Cuzco; per person incl
meals US$40)
A much cheaper option, and a good journey-breaker, is this rustic lodge
near Pilcopata (you could hit the village nightlife from here if you wanted). There are
eight cabins here sleeping up to 18 people, with shared bathrooms. It's at the base of the
cloud forest (one hour's drive from the best cloud forest bird-watching).
LODGE
Río Alto Madre de Dios
It is harder to stay at some of these lodges independently, as there are few available boats
not affiliated with a particular tour agency.
Amazonia Lodge $$
Offline map
( 084-23-1370;
www.amazonialodge.com
; Matará 334, Cuzco; r per person incl meals
US$85)
In an old colonial hacienda in the foothills of the Andes, Amazonia provides trav-
elers with slightly different environs to bed down (although a refurbishment is overdue).
Expect clean, comfortable beds and communal hot showers. The lodge has forest trails,
excellent bird-watching (guided tours are offered), blissfully few mosquitoes and no elec-
tricity. The lodge can make transportation arrangements, or tour agencies in Cuzco can
make reservations. As it's just across the river from Atalaya, you can usually charter a loc-
al boat to ferry you across.
LODGE
Pantiacolla Lodge $$
Offline map
( 084-23-8323;
www.pantiacolla.com
;
Garcilaso 265 interior, 2nd fl, Cuzco; s/d
US$145/180, with shared bathroom US$125/150, all incl meals)
There are 14 double
rooms here, 11 with shared bathrooms and three with private ones. Rates include meals
but not transportation or tours, though right near the lodge are forest trails (some re-as-
LODGE
