Once-in-a-Lifetime Capuchin Release Expedition

Land at the airport and take a short ride to your hotel. Your expedition leader will meet the group for a welcome dinner to walk through the plan for the coming days, introduce you to the story of the 15 capuchins, and answer any questions. Rest well. Tomorrow the jungle begins.

Early morning departure. The group takes a 4-hour drive followed by a boat ride through pristine rainforest to the Junglekeepers ranger station. After settling into your Cabin, your guides will lead a first walk through the trail system surrounding the station. The forest here is staggering in scale and biodiversity, and this first afternoon is your introduction to everything that has been worth protecting.

In the late afternoon, you will your guide will brief you on the protocol for the coming days: how to observe without disturbing, what the release team is watching for, and what the morning of the release will look like.

The days leading up to the release are spent immersed in the ecosystem these monkeys are about to join. Mornings and afternoons alternate between walks, wildlife observation, river and stream exploration, and accompanying the rangers responsible for providing for the capuchins as the Amazon Shelter team completes their final assessments.

Your guides will lead you through the trail network used daily by the Junglekeepers rangers, explaining how they patrol, what illegal activity looks like and how it is reported, and what it means to maintain a protected corridor of this size. Nights bring night walks for an entire new environment, star-gazing above the canopy, and the unmistakable sound of a jungle fully alive after dark.

Activities across these days include day and night hikes, river and stream walks, macaw lick observation, wildlife tracking, fishing, swamp exploration, and more.

This is the plan. Plans change. But if everything goes well, this day will be one you will remember forever.

The wildlife veterinarian and rehabilitation staff will be present throughout. When the doors open, what happens next belongs to the capuchins. You made it possible. Your role now is simply to be a witness to something that has taken years to make possible, and that, in part, your presence here has made real.

The rest of the day is yours to absorb it. There are no scheduled activities, we will keep this day as wide open as possible to let the experts do their work, and for the group to soak it in. After that, hammocks, the river, the trail if you want it.

A final full day in the jungle. Morning boat ride, afternoon free for wildlife observation or a last walk through the trails. The Amazon Shelter team will share a debrief on the release and early behavioral observations of the group as they begin to move freely through the forest. One last night walk to capture the mystic of the forest one last time.

Pack your bags and say goodbye to the Las Piedras. The group heads back down river and overland to Puerto Maldonado, arriving in the afternoon. Dinner together in town.

Your Tamandua expedition leader will see you off to the airport. Until next time.