MOYOBAMBA, PERÚ
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Capital city of the San Martín region, is the point of departure of our Tingana magic tours, located at 860 m .a.s.l. originally named as "Santiago de los Ocho Valles de Moyobamba", is the first city founded by the Spaniards in the Peruvian jungle.
The legend about the existence of a great kingdom in Angaiza, between the blue mountains, when there was a huge amount of gold; constituted the major gold quarry of the Inca Empire, and led the Spanish conquerors to the Moyo river during the XVI century.Taking advantage of the large esplanade were it is located, they founded the city of Moyobamba, a name derived from the quechua expression Muyupampa, which means "Circular Prairie". This allowed the formation of natural balconies from where you can watch the beauty of the surrounding forest.
Today Moyobamba is also known as the "Orchid Capital", thanks to its weather and geographical location, privileged with the existence of more than 2,500 different varieties.
Enjoy this location deep in the heart of Alto Mayo (department of San Martin). That besides being the habitat of different kinds of wildlife and trees, keeps the spirit of an ancient culture that has survived time.
While sailing on a native canoe through the Avisado River , the amazonia will seduce our senses. Pichicos, howling cotos, failecillos, tities and other monkey species will play on top of the exuberant trees, giving us a noisy welcome ritual. Near it's shores, river squirrels, añajes, coaties, anteaters, ronsocos and other mammals will hide while birds sing from their nests. There are around 120 bird species in the reserve.
In this place, where it is told that trees walk on top of the river waters, you will live the experience of enjoying typical local meals in a specially conditioned shelter for visitors, inside the reserve, attended by settlers of the region.