P2 · 2 days / 1 night
Mapajo program
One night in the forest: a salt lick walk on arrival, a night walk after dinner and a morning among giant kapok and strangler fig trees with a guide who explains what each plant is used for.
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 ride takes about three hours.
12:30 · Arrival at Madidi Jungle Ecolodge and check-in to your cabin.
13:00 · Lunch and time to rest.
14:30 · Walk on the Wabu trail to a salt lick, where white-lipped peccaries, red howler and brown capuchin monkeys, toucans and guans come for minerals. Return on the Tuichi trail.
19:30 · Dinner at the lodge, then a night walk to look for frogs, tarantulas and other animals that come out after dark.
Day 2 · Madidi National Park – Rurrenabaque
07:30 · Breakfast, then a three-hour walk on the Mapajo and Matapalo trails: the giant kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra), the almendrillo and the strangler fig. Your guide explains how each plant is used as medicine or material. Return on the Dati trail.
12:30 · Lunch.
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).
16:00 · Arrival in Rurrenabaque and transfer to your hotel, the bus station or the airport.
Price 2026 per person
USD 205
Room with shared bathroom
USD 220
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 Mapajo 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.
TOUR OPERATORS
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KANOO TOURS
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CHACANA TRAVEL BOLIVIA
Calle Linares 943 (Calle de las Brujas)
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Santa Cruz
NICK’S ADVENTURES BOLIVIA
Edificio Isuto 1.0, Oficina 208, Calle Celia Salmón
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RUTA VERDE
Calle 21 de Mayo 318
info@rutaverdebolivia.com
Sucre
BOLIVIA SPECIALIST
Calle Audiencia 80A
info@boliviaspecialist.com
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Madidi Jungle Ecolodge is a low-impact rainforest eco-venture created and run by indigenous people who live in the heart of Madidi National Park. We opened to visitors in 2011 on community lands of San José de Uchupiamonas.
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