Looking Forward to Traveling Again? Check out these Treasures of Peru By Lily Ong
As travel begins to open up more and more each week, it’ll be tempting to start making plans to explore new places. When the time comes for a VTL with Peru, you’ll want to know about some of the best spots to explore.
Manu National Park Renowned as one of the largest refuges of terrestrial biodiversity in the world, Manu National Park is wrapped by meandering rivers located at the confluence of the South Eastern Andes in Peru and the magnificent Amazon basin. A tropical forest of 1.5 million hectares, the park spans over a wide altitudinal gradient of the Eastern slope of the Andes from around 350 to 4000 meters above sea level. A haven of majestic biodiversity, it harbors 200 species of mammals,
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800 species of birds, 68 species of reptiles, 77 species of amphibians, and a spectacular number of freshwater fish. Thankfully, Manu Park has been spared from human impacts and remains largely inaccessible to this day.