Refugio Amazonas, owned and run by Rainforest Expeditions, is situated in a 200-hectare private reserve within the buffer zone of the Tambopata National Reserve. The 32-bedroom lodge is ideal for soft adventurers and families, as it has a rain forest trail designed especially for children.A stay at the Refugio Amazonas can be spent at the canopy tower for some bird watching. Toucans, parrots, macaws or mixed species canopy flocks may be spotted. Paddle around Lake Condenado and Lake Claylicks on a catamaran to encounter wildlife such a hoatzin, parrots, parakeets, caiman or horned screamers. Cultural activities involve visits to an ethno-botanical trail, a working jungle farm, and a real Brazil nut concession.

Travel by boat several hours up the Tambopata River to reach the remote Tambopata Research Center Jungle Lodge, leaving the final traces of human habitation behind. Within the 700,000 hectares of uninhabited reserve sightings of monkeys, macaws, and other large species become more frequent. Jaguars are sometimes seen near the river bank. The comfortable 18 bedroom lodge was built more than twenty years ago (and rebuilt just a few years ago) with the object of lodging tourists and researchers alike and of protecting the adjacent macaw clay lick. The lodge rooms are unique due to the fact that one side of the room opens out onto the surrounding rainforest acting as a window into the forest allowing guests to enjoy this unique ecosystem even from the comfort of their hammocks.