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cending into cloud forest at 900m), a parrot lick and hot springs. Various transportation
and guided-tour options are available. It is necessary to give advance notice for the boat to
the lodge, which is on the fringe of the national park, just before Itahuanía village. Book
with Pantiacolla Tours.
Bonanza Ecological Reserve $$
Offline map
( 084-50-7871;
www.bonanzatoursperu.com
; Suecia 343, Cuzco; per person incl
meals US$85)
Past Itahuanía toward the community of Bonanza, Bonanza Tours' family-
run lodge has eight double cabins abutting a large clearing that also has a large restaurant
area and a two-floor hammock-strung chill-out zone; bathrooms are shared and there's
solar-paneled electricity. From here trails lead off into dense jungle which backs onto the
zona natural
. The highlight here is the treehouse peeping out on a clay lick which tapirs
visit.
LODGE
Yine Lodge $$$
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)
A simple lodge offering
the best accommodations in Boca Manu itself (it's near the airstrip). It has six double
rooms sharing showers and toilets, run by the Yine people in conjunction with Pantiacolla
Tours through whom you should make reservations.
LODGE
Parque Nacional Manu
This national park starts in the eastern slopes of the Andes and plunges down into the low-
lands, hosting great diversity over a wide range of cloud forest and rainforest habitats. The
most progressive aspect of the park is the fact that so much of it is very carefully protected
− a rarity anywhere in the world.
After Peru introduced protection laws in 1973, Unesco declared Manu a Biosphere
Reserve in 1977 and a World Natural Heritage site in 1987. One reason the park is so suc-
cessful in preserving such a large tract of virgin jungle and its wildlife is that it is remote
and relatively inaccessible to people, and therefore has not been exploited by rubber tap-
pers, hunters and the like (although there is an ongoing dispute between local Amazonians
