For many travelers, to visit the most outstanding center of one culture and one of the wonders of the world is long planned in advance and now we will go to visit and make birding in that famous citadel of Machupicchu built by the ancient Inca civilization in Cusco-Peru.

Our bird watching trip will start early, from our hotel in Cusco we will leave by car toward to Ensifera camp, where it has feeders, the possibilities to make pictures of: Giant Hummingbird, Sparkling Violetear, White-bellied Woodstar, Bearded Mountaineer, Chestnut-breasted Mountain-Finch (this couple of last ones are endemic of Peru), occasionally also is possible to take a picture of  Sword-billed Hummingbird and obviously will came there another resident birds that live close surroundings like: Peruvian Sierra-Finch, Hooded Siskin, Creamy-crested Spinetail, Chestnut-breasted Mountain-Finch, etc.

After this experience we will keep going in our private car to Ollantaytambo city and from there for one and half hours we do by train to Aguas Calientes town where will have our hotel.

Surely the level of water in the river will be good chance to look for the Torrent Duck dodging the torrent of mighty water. We look for them the rest of the afternoon.

Southern Peru has very good places and hotspots to make birdwatching and photography, Malaga high pass is one of the most famous mountain range for enjoin a making pictures, for its distinctives habitats in order the altitudes, that niches are homes for specialized birds and it turns out to be a niche for many endemic birds for Peru.

We are very close to this high pass of Malaga, for enjoying the birds that live in this place, will only have to drive half an hour to get this place.

We will start on the western flank and here are the specialist endemics of high Andes such as:

Rusty-fronted Canastero, Creamy-crested Spinetail, White-tufted Sunbeam, Chestnut-breasted Mountain-Finch, Junín Canastero, all these endemics birds are possible to see and photograph close by highway.

The Malaga high pass is covered with evergreen vegetation along eastern flank (Cloud forest side) and the ecosystems according the altitude above sea level are changing and will be able to find mix flocks compose by  tanagers, Flycatchers, Wrens and some hummingbird of this area like: Golden-collared Tanager, Scarlet-bellied Mountain-Tanager, Amethyst-throated Sunangel, Sapphire-vented Puffleg, Collared Inca, Sword-billed Hummingbird, Purple-backed Thornbill, Black-capped Hemispingus, Diademed Tapaculo, etc.

Definitely the both sides of the high pass are quite kind with many species of birds that´s way our birding here is warranted whit birds what only will have in this area which will add to our checklist of our trip and in the afternoon will came back to our hotel in Cusco.

Where the winds blow the fog from the lowland towards flanks of the mountains, there, cloud forests are formed; ecosystems that are ecological niches for wildlife; and the Manu road is a pristine cloud forest where the birdwatchers and birds’ photographers will feel in the paradise.

The surroundings of the lodge are undoubtedly a good place to start our photo-birding day, we will have the opportunity to see: Masked Trogon, Andean Motmot, Blue-banded Toucanet, Montane Foliage-gleaner, Yungas Manakin, Saffron-crowned Tanager, Deep-blue Flowerpiercer, Golden Tanager, Golden-eared Tanager, Versicolored Barbet, Blue-napped Chlorophonia, Wire-crested, thorntail, Violet-fronted Brilliant, Orange -bellied Euphonia, all of then close to feeders of the lodge.

In our tour in this place, we will find mixed flocks that look for their food made up of many species that are distributed at different levels of the trees to be more successful in their job of looking for food.

And we would see: Saffron-crowned Tanager, Beryl-spangled Tanager, Ash-browed Spinetail, Montane Foliage-Gleaner, Buff-throated Saltator, Black-eared Hemispingus, Three-stripe Warbler, Russet-crowned Warbler, Orange-eared Tanager, Streaked Xenops etc.

Throughout the day we will move to different places in our car with the purpose to find birds that inhabit this forest.

The bird that we recognize as our national bird is the Andean-Cock-of-the-rock and we can see it near to our lodge, its particular behavior of visiting a specific point in the jungle to dance in a male competition to get a female, which make them predictable; and we will visit this place to photograph them in courtship; And this movement will also bring other birds and our chances to see them such as: Crested Quetzal, Golden-napped Tanager, Golden-collared Honeycreeper, Semicollared Hawk, Green Jay, Fulvous-Breasted Flatbill, Olive-backed woodcreeper, etc.

And at dusk we will go to see the moment when the Lyre-tailed Nightjar becomes active which is an impressive show.

Back to our lodge we will have the possibility to see some owls like: Rufescent Screech-Owl, Band-bellied Owl.

After our breakfast we going back to Cusco whit some birding stops on the way back to arrive Cusco at afternoon.

Finish of our service.