Why Rainforest Expeditions?
Before letting you know why Rainforest Expeditions, we want to tell you who we are and how we do it.
Who We Are?
Rainforest Expeditions is a Peruvian Ecotourism company. Since 1989 our guests and lodges, have added value to standing tropical rainforest, transforming it into a competitive alternative to unsustainable economic uses, engaging local communities in its protection and care.
How We Do It?
- You visit the Amazon rainforest with us, probably because you want to experience millions of acres of ancient trees with monkeys and macaws in them.
- We facilitate your experience by providing creature comforts (clean rooms, good food), an enriching context (knowledgeable guides, local connections), and access to a vast tropical rainforest wilderness.
- We share the income from your visit with our neighbors: native communities and farmers who have been around here a lot longer than us, many of whom work at the lodges and have become guardians of this natural wonder.
- Our partners and neighbors connect your visit to their economy. They also understand your visit depends on a healthy wilderness. They commit to its health and sustainability
Why We Are Here?
Our Mision: Nature is our passion; to share it and respect it, our commitment. We build authentic sanctuaries where our stakeholders learn the value of their relationship with the Earth and are part of a chain of sustainable eco-tourism services.
Our Vision: To be a chain of ecotourism lodges that add value to the forest through their sustainable practices.
Here are our 4 pillars:
1.Working with local people
We work closely with people from the community of Infierno, the nearest settlement to our lodges. In fact, Posada Amazonas is actually owned by this community, and we co-manage this award-winning lodge with them. Many local people also work in our lodges, and we have worked with our neighbors to get official protected status for the forests around Posada Amazonas, to offer handicrafts and other locally made goods at our lodges, and to incorporate activities that local people can benefit from such as visits to an ethnobotanical garden, a local farm, and cultural activities.
2. Gorgeous ecolodges
Our lodges are carefully designed to blend traditional methods and materials with beautiful woodwork, locally made art, and other details that result in comfortable settings that communicate with the natural surroundings- to the point where most of them are open air.
Our room has an open window to maximize contact with nature.
3. Our location
All of our lodges are located in road-less rainforests of the Tambopata National Reserve and adjacent buffer zones.
These areas have been protected from hunting and logging for several years and it shows in the healthy populations of wildlife found in the rainforest habitats around our lodges.
This results in guests having better chances at wildlife sightings and photo opportunities compared to forests that appear intact but have very few animals because of over-hunting.
Unfortunately, this “empty forest syndrome” is a common occurrence in most areas of the Amazon situated near villages and farms because of unregulated hunting.
Combine this with low-density animal populations, and wildlife near people becomes subject to local extirpation all too often. The high numbers of monkeys and other wildlife in the forests around our lodges show what an intact Amazonian ecosystem should look like, especially at the Tambopata Research Center, one of the most remote ecolodges in the Amazon.
4. Unbeatable wildlife
Protected, primary rainforests are filled with wildlife, and the habitats around our lodges are no exception. Monkeys, toucans, herds of hundreds of white-lipped peccary and well over 500 other bird species, Giant Otters, and even Jaguar are seen by guests.
The design of the eco-lodges allows the guest to maximize the experience at every moment of their stay, being able to enjoy wildlife sightings even from their own room.
