Day 01: Cusco - TAMBO PAITITI (Biking distance: 50 km/ 30 mi)
We start our trip in the early morning leaving Cusco in our private bus. During the journey you can enjoy the impressive landscape, passing small communities. Leaving the colonial village Paucartambo behind, you will reach the Acjanaco Pass (3550 m/ 11.647 ft), the entrance to the Manu National Park. After a delicious lunch above the eastern slopes of the Andes with a view over the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, your mountain bike adventure starts: a large downhill into the Cloud Forest, more than 50 km descending the lush eastern slopes of the Andes from 3550 m/ 11.647 feet down to 1500 m/ 4.921 feet! In the afternoon you will reach the San Pedro River. A short jungle walk will take you to the Manu Eco Lodge
TAMBO PAITITI (1470 m/ 4.826 ft). (L, D)
Day 02: TAMBO PAITITI - Cusco (Biking distance: 50 km/ 30 mi)
The early morning is the best time for bird-watching and observation of other animals of the Cloud Forest. From the observation tower or the different platforms of
TAMBO PAITITI itself and right above the San Pedro River you may see the Andean Cock of the Rock (national bird of Peru), Toucan, Quetzal, Tanager and Motmot as well as Woolly Monkeys, Brown Capuchin Monkeys, Tayra, Agouti, Southern Tamandua and South American Coati. The Manu Cloud Forest is also habitat of the Night Monkey, the rare Spectacled Bear, the Jaguarondi, Ocelot, Puma, Weasel, Otter, squirrels and a big family of rodents and bats. After breakfast you will get back to the Acjanaco Pass by bus. Here you may take chance of the long and soft downhill by mountain bike to Paucartambo. After lunch, the bus will take you to the Huachuqasa Pass (4170 m/ 13.681 ft) from where you can enjoy the last bike ride to the Sacred Valley of the Incas. You will arrive at Cusco by bus in the afternoon. (B, L)
Service includes:
Pick up at hotel, private transport, mountain bike, helmet, gloves, protection kit, 1 night in
TAMBO PAITITI, food as indicated (B= Breakfast, L= Lunch, D= Dinner), and experienced mountain bike and naturalist guide.
Recommended equipment:
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Binoculars
- Camera + extra batteries
- Flash-light + extra batteries
- Sunscreen lotion (SPF at least 30)
- Insect repellent
- Personal toiletries and medications
- Sunglasses
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- Hat
- Long-sleeved shirts
- Long pants
- Hiking boots
- Sneakers/ sandals
- Rain suit
- Swimsuit
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You will enjoy some magnificent downhill biking, crossing the Andean Highland and riding along the eastern slopes of the Andes down to the Cloud Forest of the Manu Biosphere Reserve. Explore the exotic fauna around the Manu Eco Lodge 
