Manu National Park

Manu is one of the last true strongholds of Peru's wilderness, where three distinct ecosystems—lowland Amazon rainforest, misty cloud forest, and high-altitude Andean grasslands—collide in one heavily protected expanse. In the rivers and oxbow lakes, giant otters patrol the banks while macaws lick clay to get their daily salt intake. Manu is a rare place where entire worlds of biodiversity are still thriving in an undervisited location on the outskirts of the Amazon.