PAID CONTENT FOR TREEHOUSE LODGE
Treehouse Lodge LORETO, PERU
Some treehouse hotels are a platform on stilts with a view, but Treehouse Lodge offers something different. Each of its 12 bungalows is built into a living tree, with rooms suspended 10 to 21 metres up in the rainforest canopy. The hotel is surrounded by 1,000 acres of
primary Amazon rainforest that the lodge helps preserve on the Yarapa River in Loreto, Peru, where the nearest road ends in Nauta and the rest of the journey is by boat. The Yarapa is a blackwater river. Tannins from decaying leaves stain it the colour of strong tea, and at the confluence with the Cumaceba tributary, travellers can see the precise line where black meets brown — a natural phenomenon that’s as striking to witness as it sounds. The journey from Iquitos takes roughly two-and-a-half hours by car and boat: a drive to Nauta, then a boat along the Marañón, the Amazon and the Ucayali before the Yarapa narrows and the lodge’s cable bridges come into view, strung between platforms. Treehouse Lodge is Peru’s only dedicated
treehouse lodge, where every bungalow is built into and supported by a single living tree. Stays
are all-inclusive, and each group explores with its own private guide. The main dining structure, the Comedor, was constructed from 36 ironwood beams; each one required 14 people to move it into place. The lodge runs entirely on solar power — from lights and fans to kitchen and refrigeration — backed by a generator only when cloud cover lasts longer than a day. Guests can encounter an abundance of wildlife
without ever having to leave the property. Howler monkeys — the loudest land animals on Earth — announce themselves before dawn. Troops of squirrel monkeys, sometimes 100 strong, cross the lodge’s cable bridges on their own schedule. Owl monkeys, the only nocturnal primates in the Americas, are often spotted on guided jungle walks alongside sloths and hoatzins. At dusk, pink and grey river dolphins surface near the Yarapa and Cumaceba confluence, one of the most consistent observation points for the species in the Peruvian Amazon. As a result, Treehouse Lodge has featured as one of the world’s most unusual hotels on the National Geographic website.
DON’T MISS Experience the magic of sunset on the Yarapa River as pink river dolphins breach the surface
120 Need to know
KEY FEATURES • Solar-powered lodge • All-inclusive dining at the Comedor • Purified water system • Cable bridge canopy walkways
KEY ACTIVITIES • Piranha fishing • Jungle walk • Sunrise birdwatching • Sunset dolphin cruise on the Yarapa
GET IN TOUCH •
treehouselodge.com • +1 801 556 0144 •
bookings@treehouselodge.com •
instagram.com/treehouselodge
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