Amazon Field Station byInkaterra

Tambopata Research Center stands as one of the most secluded jungle lodges in the Amazon, offering an unparalleled connection to nature. Deep within the rainforest, this lodge boasts 28 comfortable rooms and suites, each opening out to the vibrant jungle, allowing you to immerse yourself in this diverse ecosystem even during your downtime. 

Built in 2005, the Refugio Amazonas is an excellent option in the Tambopata region of the Peruvian Amazon. The 24 room lodge is located in a private 200 hectare reserve some 3 hours boat trip from Puerto Maldonado. Mosquitos are not really a problem in the area allowing the rooms to have one side fully open to the forest for a fully immersive experience. Built in a remote area with sustainability in mind, there is no electricity with light provided by kerosene lamps.

There is scientific research going on along side the activities of the lodge. Many of the guides are scientists and researchers themselves allowing guests to help in the activities and gain a greater insight into this abundant and special habitat. Activities include visits to parakeet and mammal clay licks, the canopy tower, walks through the forest and night time safaris as well as some more adventurous optional extra activities such as camping overnight in the forest.

Just getting to Posada Amazonas is an adventure, as you’ll embark on a 45-minute boat journey along the Rio Tambopata to reach its welcoming wooden decks. Once here, you’ll be greeted by the local community who make up much of the staff at the lodge, and shown to your room where swinging hammocks and handmade wooden beds await.

The new more casual sister lodge to Reserva Inkaterra, Hacienda Concepción is more easily accessible and with the same values placed on sustainability, service and authenticity as its sibling.

A plantation house from the 1950s, constructed in the typical Amazonian Hacienda style surrounded by 819 hectares of rainforest and on the grounds of what used to be a cacao and rubber plantation, this lodge also used to be an ecological research centre, which speaks for both its location and profound biological knowledge of the region.

With an emphasis on your Amazonian experience, its 6 rooms and 19 cabanas are quite open to the exotic environment around you but are impressively clean, simple and comfortable. The cabanas are the same level of luxury as those of its sister, the Reserva Inkaterra.

Next to a natural oxbow lake, the lodge acts as a buffer zone between the Tambopata National Reserve and the shores of the vast Madre de Dios River, so your daily river or land expeditions to explore the rainforest pretty much begin from the threshold of your room.