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Our collaboration with the native population in reserve management has resulted in friendly relations which have created opportunities for our visiting teachers and students to learn about their riberenos culture as well as for some research projects in anthropology.
Our facilities include the longest zipline in the Amazon rainforest, and several platforms within the canopy. Students can have unlimited access to research projects in the forest canopy.
Our lodge was the site of research on Pink Dolphins used by Sy Montgomery to write her two books on these interesting marine mammals. We have recently added hydrophonic technology to allow students to listen to or record the underwater noises made by the pink dolphins and other marine animals.
The lodge includes an Amazon natural history library and special gear for studying insects, frogs and snakes, as well as spotting scopes for birds.
"As a publishing animal behaviorist and ecologist, and
scholar-in-residence, at The Latin School of Chicago, I have not missed a chance
in five consecutive years to take students to Amazonia Tahuayo Lodge. The expert
English spoken by the nearly entire staff keeps the information gathered on
everyone's visit very high, and every student (of nearly 100) I have taken there,
to study rainforest issues, comes home saying it was the single most life-changing
experience of their lives to date. Comfort and real learning in the real jungle,
with a staff that meets you when you land in Lima, takes care of your every
need, and carries you back to send you home again at the Lima International
airport."
Michael Periera, Ph.D. professor at Chicago's Latin School