P4 · 4 days / 3 nights
Wabu program
Three nights add the longest hike in the area, to a platform above the largest salt lick, or a full day at Santa Rosa lake. On the last morning, if the river allows, you float back down the Tuichi in an inner tube.
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 the lodge and check-in to your cabin.
13:00 · Lunch and time in the hammocks.
15:00 · Three-hour walk on the Wabu trail to the “cullpana” salt lick, where white-lipped peccaries, red howler and brown capuchin monkeys, toucans and guans come for minerals and mud baths. Return on the Tuichi trail.
19:30 · Dinner and free time.
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 up the Tuichi 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 recently found salt lick. Boat back to the lodge.
19:30 · Dinner, then a night walk for frogs, insects and tarantulas.
Day 3 · Madidi National Park
07:30 · Breakfast, then the longest hike: four hours on the Mapajo and Pavacullpana trails to a platform above the largest salt lick in the area. Chances of tapir, white-lipped peccary, brown capuchin, red howler, black spider and saddleback tamarin monkeys, guans and toucans. Short walk and boat back.
13:00 · Lunch and time in the hammocks.
15:30 · Choose between making seed jewelry with your guide, or a short walk on the Dati and Almendrillo trails to a salt lick visited by red howler monkeys.
19:30 · Dinner of dunucuabi, catfish cooked in leaves. If you want, the guides talk about the history of the Uchupiamonas people.
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 – Rurrenabaque
07:30 · Breakfast.
08:00 · Boat ride up the Tuichi and a short walk through secondary forest. Back on the river, float down in an inner tube with a life jacket, if weather and water level allow, or return by boat.
12:30 · Lunch and free time.
13:45 · 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 375
Room with shared bathroom
USD 420
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 Wabu 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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