Welcome to the great Amazon basin, home of the greatest biodiversity in the world.
Ecuador's Amazon rain forest is one of the most spectacular natural wonders and is also home of ancient cultures and ethnic groups that live in and have guarded the rainforest for centuries.
JUNGLE TOURS
MT 301 SACHA LODGE (4 days / 3 nights)
Day 1: From Quito the journey begins taking a breathtaking flight over the
eastern range of Ecuador's Andes towards to Ecuador's Jungle.
Once arriving to the town of
Coca, a motorized canoe will take you down the Napo River. Upon arrival to the Sacha Lodge, a
5000-acre reserve, you will walk along a forest where you will be able to spot the
wild life of the area.
Day 2: Visitors will decide the difficulty and duration of their morning outings.
The first morning you will follow some trails in the forest. For the more adventurous, it
is also possible to follow a path along fallen tree trunks and a steel cable zip-line through rich swampland!
Visit a butterfly farm with Sacha Lodge. After dark, you may search
for caimans.
Day 3: Visit Sacha Lodge's 135-foot observation tower, constructed around a giant kapok
tree.
With some luck, noisy howler monkeys, foraging squirrel monkeys or the
gentle three-toed sloth may be seen with the aid of a telescope.
After an
hour excursion by canoe to visit the jungle you will have time to fish for the infamous razor-toothed piranha.
Day 4: Walk back out to the Napo River for the trip in canoe to Coca. Return to
Quito.
The leading luxury Eco-Lodge. Located by the Añangu Lake, South bank of the Napo River, Northeast Amazonian Ecuador. Only lodge within Yasunì National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, the largest tract of intact rain forest in Ecuador.
Best accommodations and privacy. Luxury lodge with 10 large individual cabins. Each with private lake and forest views.
Unrivalled nature attractions and biodiversity, 2 unique easy access parrot & macaw clay licks, 565 bird species, 11 species of monkeys, Giant Otter family and other large mammals such as Brazilian tapir, White-lipped peccary, all species of cayman including, Black cayman, Anaconda and many others.
Two solid self standing canopy towers. Carefully engineered to provide maximum safety and enjoyment of wildlife at emergent trees.
Visitors will be lead by a native Anangu guide, who is also an official Yasuni Park Ranger, expert on the forest's secrets about medicinal plants and other useful items of the rain forest, and an excellent bilingual naturalist guide with great deal of knowledge in tropical forest biology.
Guides will schedule their outings before dawn or at sunrise. This will maximize wildlife observation, and of course, each group will decide with their guides how extreme and intense they take their Ecuadorian Amazon excursion. This applies for afternoon excursions and night outings with Napo Wildlife Center.
From Coca, the Yarina Lodge is only twenty minutes on the river. Here is the beginning of the biggest uninhabited rainforest in the Amazon that is not being hunted. Being made up of local materials, such as bamboo and palm fronds, the reserve is completely owned by the indigenous Kichwas in collaboration with the Yuturi Organization. You will see different jungle lands, and jungle inhabitants, such as birds, butterflies, orchids, amphibians, piranhas, insects, and more.
The activities available in the programs are:
Fluvial navigations early in the morning for bird watching
Long and short trekking for the observation of flora and fauna
Night trekking to watch insects, frogs, snakes and other nocturnal species of the jungle
Fluvial navigation at night to observe caimans
Piranha fishing
Cultural activities visiting an indigenous Kichwas family
Deep in the jungle you can live the most wild experience of your life with all the
comfort and flexibility. You will get there only in a charter flight after observing
the Avenue of the Volcanoes.
The programs are Taylor made following your
interest and health condition. The duration is from one week until one month.
Please contact us to organize the best program to you.
Only four hours by river from Coca, Yuturi is the gateway to the biggest
uninhabited and unhunted rainforest in the Amazon. This reserve is 100%
owned by the indigenous Kichwas in collaboration with the Yuturi Organization.
The lodge is made with the same materials used by the community: bamboo
and palm fronds. You will discover approximately 500 species of birds, lowland
dears, tapirs, monkeys, caimans, piranhas, giant river Otters, anacondas, etc.
The activities available in our programs are:
Fluvial navigations early in the morning for bird watching.
Long (6 hrs) and short trekking (4 hrs) for the observation of flora and fauna
Night trekking to watch insects, frogs, snakes and other nocturnal species of
the jungle.
Fluvial navigation at night to observe caimans.
Piranha fishing
Cultural activities visiting an indigenous kichway family