Most every day of the year, between 4 and 25 male birds gather to dance and call at this spot near the lodge. This luxuriant valley preserve protects healthy populations of Woolly Monkeys and Spectacled Bears, the two most impressive mammals of Andean forests. Upstream from the lodge are natural hotsprings welling up out of the base of the Pantiacolla Mountains. The contacted, friendly Indians who own the hotsprings have fashioned a rustic bathing pool that is at a constant, ideal temperature. In all the western Amazon, from Colombia through Ecuador and Peru to Bolivia, Pantiacolla is the birding lodge with the best location and the most complete, most scientifically-designed trail system.
Birders can spend weeks here without exhausting the immense bird list.
The Pongo is a literal hotbed of biological activity and diversity, inhabited by the extreme western Amazon's world-record diversity of butterflies, birds, bats, trees, orchids, and most other forms of terrestrial life. Perhaps the most engaging large vertebrate of the Andes, and one of its most endangered, the Spectacled Bear, lives on the higher slopes of the Pongo de Mainique. A short distance from the Machiguenga Center is the Timpia Macaw Clay Lick along the shore of the Sabeti River. This clay lick has the distinction of being one of the few places in Peru where all four species of large macaws can be observed together. Map of InkaNatura Lodges in South East Peru.