Bolivia
Kaa-Iya National Park Tours
Experience Kaa-Iya National Park, Your Way
Skip the standard itineraries. We design journeys around your interests, timeline, and curiosity with exclusive access you won't find on any platform.
Things to Do in Kaa-Iya National Park
Starting points for your perfect trip
Jaguar Tracking on the Pipeline Road
Slow 4x4 drives at dawn and dusk along the dirt corridor linking Tucavaca to the Izozog pump station, where researchers have documented some of the densest jaguar populations ever recorded in dry forest. Your guide reads fresh tracks and the alarm calls that betray a cat's position.
Searching for the Chacoan Peccary
The endemic tagua was known only from Pleistocene fossils until living bands were confirmed in 1975. In the alluvial Chaco around Cerro Cortado, your guide scans for characteristic wallows, cactus feeding signs, and groups of five to ten animals browsing quebracho thickets at first light.
Night Drives Through the Thorn Forest
After sunset, Tucavaca's spotlight drives crawl at walking pace through tunnels of quebracho and candelabra cactus. Beams reveal giant armadillos, Geoffroy's cat, crab-eating fox, night monkeys, and the occasional maned wolf crossing sandy tracks that held jaguar prints an hour earlier.
Waterhole Vigils at Peak Dry Season
As September advances, shrinking water sources concentrate wildlife into narrow windows of activity. From blinds and vehicles positioned at known lagoons, watch tapir, white-lipped peccary herds, giant anteater, and puma converge on the last drinking points before the rains return.
Guaraní-Isoseño Communities of the Parapetí
In the Isoso villages along the Río Parapetí, meet elders, parabiólogos trained as community field biologists, and the women of CIMCI producing algarrobo flour and native honey. Arranged through the co-management authority, these visits reveal the governance model that built the park.
Dark-Sky Nights at Tucavaca Camp
With no electric light for 300 kilometers in any direction, Kaa-Iya delivers some of South America's darkest skies. The Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds, and the Southern Cross burn crisp above silhouetted quebracho trees while nightjars call from the thorn scrub.
Design Your Custom Trip
Tell us about your dream adventure. Our travel specialists respond within 24 hours with a personalised itinerary.
Explore More
Other Bolivia Destinations
Explore more destinations across Bolivia.
Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve
Rising from Bolivia's altiplano at over 4,200 meters lies one of Earth's most surreal landscapes—a realm where crimson lakes mirror...
ExploreSanta Cruz de la Sierra
In Bolivia's tropical lowlands, where the Andes tumble into the Amazon, Santa Cruz opens doors to landscapes found nowhere else...
ExploreAmboro National Park
At the Elbow of the Andes, where mountains bend toward Peru, lies a biological miracle. Amboró National Park is the...
ExploreSamaipata
Around 300 CE, the Chané people of the Mojocoyas culture began sculpting a 220-meter sandstone monolith with pumas, serpents, and...
ExploreSucre
Founded in 1538 as Ciudad de la Plata by Spanish colonists profiting from nearby Potosí's silver mines, Sucre grew into...
ExplorePotosí
In 1545, an indigenous herder named Diego Huallpa discovered silver on a mountain the Inca had long considered sacred. Within...
ExploreMadidi National Park
Recognized by the Wildlife Conservation Society as the world's most biodiverse national park, Madidi spans nearly 19,000 square kilometers from...
ExploreNorth Yungas Road
Carved into sheer cliffs during the 1930s Chaco War, North Yungas Road — El Camino de la Muerte — once...
ExploreLake Titicaca
At 3,812 meters, Lake Titicaca stretches across the Andean altiplano like a shimmering inland sea — the world's highest navigable...
ExploreSalar de Uyuni
At 3,656 meters on the Bolivian Altiplano lies the world's largest salt flat—a 10,582-square-kilometer expanse of crystalline white that transforms...
ExploreLa Paz
Perched between 3,250 and 4,100 meters above sea level, La Paz defies gravity and expectations as the world's highest administrative...
Explore