Program fee Includes:

• Full meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner). You must confirm if you have any special diet such as vegan, vegetarian, or food allergies. Fruits and drinks available anytime.
• Volunteer bedrooms made of noble material and wood with A/C and mosquito nets
• Electricity all day in all the facilities
• Exterior dining room
• Wi-Fi available in common areas and Study area.
• Shared bathrooms with running water, outside the bedrooms.
• Exterior recreational room with board games and hammocks.
• Laundry machine for free use. No dry machine.
  
• Pick up and drop off in Iquitos Airport. 
• Equipment (RAREC t-shirts and rain boots)
• Ride to he Amazon River to watch dolphins.

Pick up and drop off in Iquitos airport included. 

Before making the purchase of your air tickets, please review the following recommendations:

RAREC's private transportation picks up the Vet interns on Mondays, only at the times indicated in the chart, so we give you the flights that we recommend to take from Lima to Iquitos.

If you prefer to take a later flight than we suggest, the other option is to arrive one day before, stay in the city of Iquitos and we will pick you up on Monday at 8 a.m. We can send you recommendations of hotels.

Regarding departures, RAREC's private transportation can take the interns on Sunday, Monday, Friday or Saturdays, but only at the 2 times indicated in the chart, so we give you the flights that we recommend to take from Iquitos to Lima, so you don't have to wait to much time at the airport. If you prefer to take a later flight than we suggest, the other option is that our transportation leaves you in the city of Iquitos, so you can spend the day in the city and then go to the Airport, we can contact you with a trustworthy taxi who can take you to the airport when you call him (direct payment to the taxi driver).

The interns are going to live in RAREC facilities. About our location, RAREC is one hour from the city by car, at Km. 47. The city of Iquitos is the largest population center in the area; RAREC is in a jungle area, connected to Iquitos by the only road that is here. We hire a point of electricity, so we have electricity all day in all the facilities, and you can receive internet through the wifi  (the internet signal is not like in the cities, it has an average speed and sometimes it is unstable due to the rains, but it works well for simple tasks such as chats, social media or internet searches).

Regarding the property, we have built approximately one fifth of the land, leaving the trees as they were and building in certain spaces the animal areas, the houses where we live and the structures made with wood and noble material where we have the kitchen, the dining room, and the recreation area, these are exterior structures where you can be very comfortable. All the rest of the land is still untouched jungle; there we hike to the creek that is at the end of the land.

Accommodation also includes free use of laundry machine. Each volunteer is assigned a room where there may be other interns or volunteers as well. The rooms are made of noble material and wood, there are bunk beds, with fan. They are very fresh and have anti-bugs nets on windows and on the beds.

We have comfortable structures to stay and at the same time we are completely surrounded by the sounds of the jungle and trees, so we guarantee the jungle experience. In addition, the days you decide to take free, you can go anywhere; the road connects us to all the tourist places of Iquitos. Including the Pacaya Samiria Reserve, this is 4 hours by road and river. 

• The fee includes:

  • Breakfast, we serve fruit juice and pancakes, apart of that you can make free use of the kitchen and ingredients to prepare or serve a complete breakfast.
  • Typical Peruvian lunch: main course, fruits and drink at 12:30 pm
  • Dinner: sandwiches, soups, salads or pasta, at 6:00 pm (also, free use of the kitchen and ingredients to prepare something additional if you want).

  Breakfast: 
  

  Breakfast is self-service, you will have a stock of ingredients in the volunteer dining room that you can help yourself to.

  Eggs, tinned evaporated milk, tinned soy milk, bread  rolls, dairy yogurt, jam, margarine, oatmeal, roasted coffee, soda crackers, corn flakes cereal, sugar, selection of herbal teas.

  SEASON DEPENDANT: A tray of fruit such as apples, bananas, papaya or tangerines is placed on the dining room table, depending on availability

  A few days a week, around 7:30 am, our cook serves fruit juice and pancakes.

  Lunch and dinner: 

  Food is prepared by the RAREC kitchen, and served in the volunteer dining room. Most meals consist of rice, beans, lentils, chickpeas, split peas, pasta or quinoa, eggs, chicken and sometimes beef and pork or fish depending on their availability.

  In addition, if you want to prepare something else, there will usually be the following items in stock:

  Vegetable oil, salt, pepper, cumin, oregano, baking powder, soy sauce, white vinegar, red vinegar, garlic, potatoes, tomatoes, onions, rice, wheat flour, corn flour, popcorn, ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard and chili sauce.

  We do not serve desserts. But there is usually jelly or rice pudding in the fridge to eat when desired. 

  For vegetarians, the menu includes soy meat or vegetable stews such as mushrooms, carrots, green beans, onions, tomatoes, broccoli, as well as eggs and cheese.
  

  Take into account our recommendations:
  

  We can serve:

  • People without dietary restrictions.

  • Vegetarian (take into account that there is not much variety, for long stays).

  • Nut allergy (no airborne) 

  • Allergic to gluten or celiacs (take into account that we do not have a variety of gluten-free products, that is, we do not serve gluten-free bread, or if there is pasta, we do not serve gluten-free pasta, instead we serve rice).

  • Kosher and Halal (take into account that there is not much variety, for long stays).

  We can serve, but you need to bring your food supplements:

  • Vegan (you need to bring your own protein options, take into account that there is not much variety, for long stays).

  We cannot attend:

  • People with allergies to various foods, combinations of different allergies and preferences are often hard to accommodate.

  • Picky eaters

  • Nut allergy (airborne), we cannot guarantee that the sites that we work at will be nut-free.

  • Any reaction so severe that trace contaminants would cause reaction