Baltimore TReeS Itinerary:
Since 1997 a group of Amazonian residents from the community called Baltimore (Madre de Dios - Peru ) have been making a sustained effort to develop a form of ecotourism as a means of subsistence. It is a different kind of tourism, one that offers a 'living experience' as a product, and gives the visitor a chance to see the rainforest and its resources through the eyes of local residents.
There are several families in the community who are willing to open up their homes to people from all over the world who want to learn about and share their way of life.
Ecotourism has been regarded as a viable economic alternative to other economic activities with associated environmental degradation, such as deforestation and the destruction of local flora and fauna.
In Madre de Dios tourism is a growing industry, but it is dominated by big and medium sized investors who are currently operating 29 tourist lodges in the Manu and Tambopata areas.
Stay with a local Amazonian family to see how the community works.
Peru is home to the Baltimore TReeS Community Project, designed to get the local population in active support of saving the rainforest, but not losing out on the finanical benefits of the trees.
Since 1997 this small community have been using eco-tourism as a viable alternative to the degradation of the rainforest and the wildlife and flora it supports.
Offering our guests the chance to not only see how a traditional amamzonian village works but giving you the chance to feel how it works.
Many people ask how a community located the rainforest of southeastern Peru came to be called Baltimore , and there have been many versions of this story over time. One version is that a rubber prospector whose surname was Baltimore died in the area, another that a missionary from the United States died there, and whose last wish was to be returned to his birth place of Baltimore.
Although these stories are diverse, one explorer from the beginning of the 20 th century leaves us with better clues. He related that where the community of Baltimore is now located was once an area of intensive rubber production. There also existed a port there created exclusively to ship rubber from.
The rubber that was moved through this port was packed into large boxes that said 'To Baltimore', as almost all of the production was destined to be exported to that North American port. That was how the port became known by that name, which was later adopted by the people who settled there.
It is this juxtaposition that has made this community project so valuable, offering guests the chance to see how a community can change from an environmentally degrading way of making money to supporting the rainforest and all of the extremely valuable flora and fauna.
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