Dear Liz, all the legal tour operators , i mean lodges provide this chairs, i have to say than some times some people whom did not know how the tour have to be develop there did not bring chairs and obviously they have a terrible time waiting there standing up , but our lodge . I mena chuncho lodge and other lodges , all provide chairs to wait confortable for to see the macaws eating clay as it is show on the pictures. Greetings Jorge

Dear Jim, the tambopata national reserve is not the same as the manu national park, I want to be sure you know the diferences betwen the places just because the location of both places is diferent and far apart of each other. To go to manu national park is much cheaper and easier from cusco by using the manu road wich is close during the rainy seasson because the condition are not the best. To tambopata you firstly have to get to puerto maldonado by plane or buss, there are 4 flights to puerto maldonado daily and over 20 buss companes leaving cusco every night and arriving in the morning to Puerto Maldonado. Them to go to chuncho clay lick you can look up for lodges such us our the chuncho lodge wihc s close to the macaw clay lick. Does manu has macaw clay lick? you may ask, The answer is yes, they have a very nice clay lick as well , but it is much more expensive to go there and will need several days to do the manu tour, to tambopata no need to , just 3 days and 2 nights but we recomend to do 4 days and 3 nights wich incluides the visit to lake sandoval as well with chuncho lodge tour operator. What is the diference betwen the 2 clay licks? Meaning manu and tambopata. In manu you most of the time get to see one specie of macaw , wich is the red and green and rarely the scarlet macaw. In chuncho clay lick you get to see most of the time, scarlet macaw, red and green and the beautifull blue and yellow macaw plus a lots of parrots types. Please in case you have any other question , feel free to ask , i am happy to help you.

Dear Susan By now this season allow to you see more activity at Chuncho Macaw Clay lick. We have tours to Chuncho Macaw Clay lick since 2 days, please visit our website where you can check our programs including the best zones into Tambopata National Reserve. chuncholodge. com best regards. Chuncho Lodge Team

Thank you for asking. We are Rainforest Expeditions and manage three lodges in the Tambopata area, which have access to the macaw claylicks of Chuncho and Colorado. Contact us for an experience of a lifetime!

Hello, thank you for your questions. We recommend lenses from 400mm and above. When we visit the Chuncho clay-lick, we are about 100 meters from the edge of where the birds perch, this is a unique and the best place to see over 12 species of parrots. They land every morning to feed on the mineral-rich soils. If you stay in any of the Rainforest Expeditions properties you will have access to different clay-licks depending where you stay. Hope you can visit Tambopata soon! Best, The Rainforest ExpeditionsTeam