Itinerary

1. Day 1: Arrival Francisco de Orellana – Coca - Lodge

   • Your journey starts with a 25-minute flight from Quito to Coca, where our staff will pick you up and transfer you to the port along the banks of the Napo River. There, your bilingual guide will explain about safety before embarking on a 2 hours boat trip on the greeters Ecuadorian affluent of the Amazon, the Napo River. During the journey, you get a taste of the amazing Amazon rainforest.
   • At the lodge, the staff will welcome you with refreshing cold drinks before you start your adventure exploring the most biodiversity green jungle of the planet called the Amazon Rainforest. 
   • Late afternoon, you will have a short walk on the nearby trails or a canoe ride surrounded by wildlife in its natural way, many opportunities to observe colourful birds and a close encounter with the amazing second-largest trees of the world, such as the kapok trees, also mahogany, cedars and many other plants which are attached to the culture for many uses in medicine, food, fibre and wood to build up houses and handicrafts. Afterwards a nice walk, we return to the lodge, where our chef will offer a wide variety of national and international cuisine fusion with local techniques and local organic ingredients that cater for vegetarians and vegans. 
   • Your guide will give a briefing and details about the next day's activities at the Amazon Rainforest while you enjoy drinks and cocktails. 

2. Day 2: Discover wildlife in its natural state

   • After breakfast, experience the wildlife on the tree tops from a tower. To get there, your tour leaders will take you for 20 minutes by canoe ride, followed by a short 20-minute walk Over a great view of the green Jungle, time to enjoy the wonderful sounds of the wildlife, wail including colourful birds such as parrots, toucans, monkeys. The tower gives you an amazing perspective, opening up a whole new world of Amazon biodiversity that is often difficult and almost impossible to see from the understory. 
   • We will go back for lunch to the lodge.
   • In the afternoon, the journey continues exploring the nearby trails, searching for more Amazonian creatures and walking through trails that have 3 hours of duration in the Amazon jungle. The most biodiverse tropical rainforest on the planet.

   You will be back at about 7 pm at the lodge to have a rest and get ready for dinner.

3. Day 3: Clay Leak Visit and Kichwa Community

   • After breakfast, you will go to visit the parrots’ wall at Yasuní National Park for a wonderful view of hundreds of parrots searching for a gap to land and eat the earth in the process of their digestion. 
   • Here, you will see Mealy Amazon, yellow-crowned, orange-winged and blue-headed parrots. Afterwards, we will go back to the Community Centre. 
   • Here, you can learn how the community lives in harmony with the Amazon Rainforest. 
   • You will learn about their customs, drinks, food, and Kichwa culture and learn how local life is environmentally sustainable. 
   • You will learn about their conservation and entrepreneurship projects (WASI WARMI) along with an activity of handicrafts. 
   • Appetizers will be in the community, and you will taste the traditional food of the Kichwa tribe, then get ready to play with the blowgun, an ancient Kichwa weapon to hunt.  
   • In the afternoon, you’ll have the last opportunity to explore the lake to find afternoon wildlife activity and the best sunset over the Amazon. It will be optional for guests to take a night walk to see insects, spiders, snakes and frogs.

4. Day 4: Return to the Napo River – Coca

   • After breakfast, head back to Coca on time to get your flight, bus, or private transportation back to Quito. 

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