Rainforest Expeditions Lodges

These lodges offer an extensive and diverse activity list–including some you can’t find anywhere else in the world. Activities recommended include: mountain biking, Oxbow lake visit, Canopy tour, farm visit, night walk and sunset river cruise.

By staying at one of these eco-lodges you make a meaningful contribution to Rainforest Expeditions’ sustainable efforts preserving and protecting pristine land and wildlife populations and caring of the people. Since 1989, they have been committed to making life better for human and non-human neighbours. Here is the lodges statement on its community action:

“We consider that real support to the native communities, local and close to the places where we operate, does not consist of buying some products or hiring local labour, for us the commitment must be much deeper because of what the Rainforest Expeditions has done in one of its lodges (Posada Amazonas) an association in participation with the Eseeja de Infierno Native Community, with which the Community receives directly from the ecotourism business 75% of the profits that the business generates and the Company keeps 25%, Obviously, labour from the community and local members is used, having professionally trained not only positions such as barracks, waiters, but also personnel such as bakers, kitchen technicians, chefs, motorists, maintenance technicians, and some professional lines even having members of the community working across the chain of operations, human resources, projects, sales, and accounting.

The community in these 20 years that the project has received income in the amount of more than 30 million soles and has trained more than 200 people. It also hires local or community personnel, with all its benefits and obligations that the law mandates within the formality, and an effort is made to always buy local products and raw materials from the members of the Local Community.”

“We are proud to announce that our three lodges are the first carbon-neutral lodges in the Tambopata National Reserve. Our operations are now 100% carbon neutral. This includes:

• Day to day operations at all three lodges
• Our offices in Puerto Maldonado
• Transportation of all permanent staff

This is thanks to our partnership with Regenera. Regenera is an innovative footprint management service that measures our carbon footprint and offsets it through local carbon sequestration and avoided deforestation actions, and transfers 60% of revenues to local communities who have agreed to protect forests. We are currently working with Nature Services Peru (the folks that created Regenera) to create an option for our guests to offset their own travel emissions. We know that climate change threatens the natural environment and we want to do everything we can to protect it.  Together – we believe we can safeguard our beautiful rainforest for many generations to come.”

The lodges use as their main source of energy a combination of solar energy with a first-generation generator, the generator, and the main power generation equipment are in specially insulated houses to avoid any disturbance or sound, it is measured annually with the sound level meter to guarantee that there is no undesirable effect with this equipment. This system allows us to have 24 hours of power, although we are not allowed to use hair dryers, irons, or other high consumption that can affect the system. The hot water is obtained by means of gas hot springs. The internet is satellite. The refrigerators are a combination of gas refrigerators with the power supply of the central generator that is combined with solar panels. The kitchen is also gas.

Regarding recycling, the shelters have bins for the responsible segregation of garbage, plastics, paper, biodegradable, glass, and metal in the main environments. Everything is entirely lowered in boats to the city. Only biodegradable kitchen waste is dumped in wood-lined septic tanks that last approximately 2 years each. Each shelter has 7 of these wells, rotating between them since after 7 years the well can be used again since all the biodegradable material has degraded. Single-use plastics are totally prohibited, so much so that only glass water bottles are sold or the corresponding refill is carried out to the portable bottles of water. In each environment, you will find where to refill with purified water with ceramic and ozone filters.

The effluents are totally separated for gray water and black water, these have a special and professional treatment ending in a biodigester and a settler, which allows keeping any effluent free of contamination, periodically the water and effluents are tested in Sedapal to know the quality of the water. The water we use is extracted by means of electric pumps more than 25 meters deep in the subsoil, then going through a chlorine treatment, 3 filters of different materials and finally, an ozone machine ends up guaranteeing the quality of the water.