P5 · 5 days / 4 nights
Biwa program
Four nights let you walk every trail at an unhurried pace, including the longest hike in the area, make seed jewelry with your guide and float down the Tuichi in the dry season. By the last walk you will recognize plants and calls on your own.
Itinerary
Day by day
Times are a guide. Your guide adjusts the plan to the weather, the river, your arrival time and what your group wants to see.
Day 1 · Rurrenabaque – Madidi National Park
08:30 · Boat from Rurrenabaque up the Beni and Tuichi rivers, through the Bala Canyon. The boat has a roof, comfortable seats, life jackets and rain ponchos.
13:00 · Arrival at the lodge and check-in to your cabin.
14:00 · Lunch and time in the hammocks.
15:00 · Three-hour walk on the Tareche trail, mainly for macaws and parrots, with chances of white-lipped peccaries and capuchin and howler monkeys. Return along the Aguapolo river.
19:30 · Dinner and rest.
Day 2 · Madidi National Park
07:30 · Breakfast, then a three to four-hour walk on the Mapajo and Almendrillo trails: giant kapok, almendrillo and strangler fig trees, and the plants used for medicine. Return on the Matapalo and Dati trails.
12:30 · Lunch and time in the hammocks.
15:00 · Short boat ride to the Serere trail and a walk through the floodplain, home to yellow squirrel monkeys and the hoatzin. Optional piranha fishing at the Piraña lagoon, then a new salt lick. Boat back to the lodge.
19:30 · Dinner, then a night walk for frogs, insects and tarantulas.
Day 3 · Madidi National Park
07:00 · Breakfast, then the longest hike: four hours on the Bechu, Madidi and Siringuero trails, with chances of white-lipped peccary, brown capuchin, red howler, black spider and saddleback tamarin monkeys, guans and toucans.
13:00 · Lunch and time in the hammocks.
15:30 · Boat to the Pavacullpana trail and its platform above the largest salt lick in the area. Short walk to the Tuichi and boat back.
19:30 · Dinner of dunucuabi, catfish cooked in leaves. If you want, the guides talk about the history of the Uchupiamonas and Tacana peoples.
Alternative day 3: Santa Rosa lake
Full day · Two hours by boat up the Tuichi and a short walk to Santa Rosa lake: canoeing, piranha fishing and wildlife watching, with lunch on the shore. In the afternoon, a walk to citrus and coffee plantations, with a chance of yellow squirrel, brown capuchin and titi monkeys. From the boat, look out for capybaras, caimans and tapirs.
Extra cost · USD 30 per person, minimum two travelers, to cover the boat.
Day 4 · Madidi National Park
07:30 · Breakfast.
08:00 · Seed jewelry workshop with your guide: rings, necklaces and bracelets from forest seeds. Optional; you can swap it for another activity.
12:30 · Lunch and free time.
15:00 · Boat ride up the Tuichi and a short walk through secondary forest. Float back down in an inner tube with a life jacket, if weather and water level allow, or return by boat.
19:30 · Dinner and an evening at the lodge.
Day 5 · Madidi National Park – Rurrenabaque
07:30 · Breakfast.
08:00 · Three-hour walk on the Wabu trail to a salt lick on the Aguapolo river, using what you have learned to find plants and animals by their signs. Return on the Tuichi trail.
12:30 · Lunch and free time.
13:30 · Boat back to Rurrenabaque, about two hours. Optional stop at Caquiahuara, the nesting wall of red-and-green macaws and other parrots (most activity from May to December).
15:30 · Arrival in Rurrenabaque and transfer to your hotel, the bus station or the airport.
Price 2026 per person
USD 460
Room with shared bathroom
USD 520
Room with private bathroom
Children under 12: 50% off. Under 3: 75% off. Minimum two travelers.
Online booking holds one booking of up to 2 travelers per date. For larger groups, or if your date is taken, write to us on WhatsApp.
Included
- Transfer between Rurrenabaque airport and the boat
- Boat Rurrenabaque – lodge – Rurrenabaque (about 3 hours up, 2 hours back)
- Room in a traditional cabin, with shared or private bathroom
- Three meals a day (regular, vegetarian or other diets) with seasonal fruit juice
- Drinking water during your stay
- A local guide who speaks English and Spanish
- Guided activities on the 40 km trail network
- A rain poncho for your stay
- Help booking your hotel in Rurrenabaque and flights to and from La Paz
Not included
- Flights or bus between La Paz and Rurrenabaque
- Madidi National Park entrance fee: BOB 200 (USD 30) for foreign visitors, BOB 50 for Bolivian citizens
- Hotel and meals in Rurrenabaque
- Soft drinks and alcohol (you are welcome to bring your own)
- Any service not listed in the program
Book the Biwa program
Online booking holds one booking of up to 2 travelers per date. For larger groups, or if your date is taken, write to us on WhatsApp. Departures every day from Rurrenabaque, minimum two travelers.
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