Inkaterra Reserva Amazónica

An eco-luxury lodge in the Peruvian Amazon near Puerto Maldonado, on the Madre de Dios river beside the Tambopata National Reserve. Thatched cabañas, a private canopy walkway 344 metres long and around 30 metres up, and grounds inventoried with more than 540 bird species.

Inkaterra Reserva Amazónica sits on the Madre de Dios river, reached by boat from Puerto Maldonado and bordering the Tambopata National Reserve. Thatched cabañas are set into rainforest that the lodge’s own naturalists have inventoried in detail: more than 1,260 species of flora and over 540 birds recorded on the grounds.

The property’s best-known feature is its canopy walkway, built in partnership with National Geographic: a 344-metre run of suspension bridges and observation platforms strung roughly 30 metres above the forest floor, with a treehouse perched alongside it. It gives you the Amazon at the level where most of its life actually happens: the birds, the light, the layered green.

Inkaterra is among the longest-standing names in Peruvian ecotourism, and its conservation arm carries the research that underpins the lodge. Reserva Amazónica was named one of National Geographic Traveler’s 25 Best Ecolodges in 2013.