Tambopata Native Eco-adventure

Description Tours Tambopata Native Communities

With the Tambopata Native Communities Tours, you will get in touch with one of the oldest native communities in the area. In this full day Tambopata The Ese ejas, known as huarayos by the oldest population of Puerto Maldonado, are a people of hunters, fishermen and horticulturists who have been present in Madre de Dios since time immemorial.

The Ese ejas settled in the plains near the Baawaja or Tambopata rivers. The Ese ejas were contacted at the beginning of the last century by the Dominican Fathers, who tried to free them from the exploitation to which they were subjected by the rubber tappers who entered the department following in the footsteps of the infamous Fermín Fitzcarrald. According to the elders of the community of Infierno, that hard time, of great transformations in their way of life, was a very hard blow for the Ese eja people, whose inhabitants were forced to abandon the territory they had inherited from their elders. Despite the change in the ethnic composition of the community, the Ese eja families that maintain this status continue to struggle to preserve their customs and the language spoken by their elders.

If you take the Tambopata Full Day Tours you are supporting this community because the income they receive from their lodge is invested mainly in education and health. The rest is used to care for the elderly, build works of communal benefit and the implementation of new productive projects. The work of cultural rescue and protection of their traditional knowledge is done with their elders, with the people of Ese Ejas who have been able to maintain the tradition. That is why most of the naturalist guides and birdwatchers in Tambopata are descendants of Ese ejas families.

In this Tambopata full day tour we will be able to do rustic fishing. Unlike many other places where this activity is limited, here we will be able to do it with respect to the wildlife cycle. We will find fish such as: catfish, maiden fish, sardine or piranha fish.

The tours to Tambopata is becoming one of the main tourist destinations in Peru, however, there is a tour in Peru that every traveler dreams of reaching at least once in his life and this is the tour to Machu Picchu, so we recommend after making your trip to Tambopata to book your tour package to Machu Picchu.

Enjoy Tours Tambopata Native Communities

MAIN POINTS OF VISIT

• Ese ejas Native Community
• Rustic or sport fishing

Tours to Tambopata (200 – 400 m.a.s.l.)

Arrival to Puerto Maldonado – Ese ejas Native Community – Rustic fishing.

• Pick up from the airport or bus station at the agreed time.
• 8.30 a.m. We will embark at Acosta Port in a boat, to go down the Madre de Dios River for approximately 30 minutes, until we arrive at the lodge.
• Cultural Tours in Tambopata Then, we will go to the housing center of the NATIVE FAMILY ESE EJAS, to see closely the customs of this indigenous people, to have direct contact with a family of ancient warriors and hunters and share with them their ancestral customs, learn about their paintings and art, as well as to help them economically with the purchase of some of their products that they themselves elaborate.
• 1.00 pm Lunch at the Lodge.
• SPORTS FISHING IN TAMBOPATA, after lunch we will continue with the adventure, we will take the boat and go down the river amidst the music of birds and the shrill cries of different species that can be heard in the wind, until we reach a creek where we will do rustic fishing for fish such as catfish, maiden, sardine or piranha fish.
• Afterwards, we will return to the lodge to get our things ready and return to the city.
• 4.30 pm Return to the city of Puerto Maldonado.

LUNCH – HOSTEL